# Happy Thanksgiving everyone. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698 "2008-11-27T13:56:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/1 "2008-11-27T13:56:46Z")
To all that celebrate, enjoy the day. ```auto ,+*^^*+___+++_ ,*^^^^ ) _+* ^**+_ +^ _ _++*+_+++_, ) _+^^*+_ ( ,+*^ ^ \+_ ) { ) ( ,( ,_+--+--, ^) ^\ { (@) } f ,( ,+-^ __*_*_ ^^\_ ^\ ) {:;-/ (_+*-+^^^^^+*+*<_ _++_)_ ) ) / ( / ( ( ,___ ^*+_+* ) < < \ U _/ ) *--< ) ^\-----++__) ) ) ) ( ) _(^)^^)) ) )\^^^^^))^*+/ / / ( / (_))_^)) ) ) ))^^^^^))^^^)__/ +^^ ( ,/ (^))^)) ) ) ))^^^^^^^))^^) _) *+__+* (_))^) ) ) ))^^^^^^))^^^^^)____*^ \ \_)^)_)) ))^^^^^^^^^^))^^^^) (_ ^\__^^^^^^^^^^^^))^^^^^^^) ^\ ___^\__ ^^^^^^))^^^^^^^^)\\ ^^^^^\uuu/^^\uuu/^^^^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\ ___) >____) >___ ^\_\_\_\_\_\_\) ^^^//\\_^^//\\_^ ^(\_\_\_\) ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ``` Happy Turkey Day, Jim ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/2 "2008-11-27T13:59:47Z")
Happy Thanksgiving to you! The turkey made me chuckle since I’m hard pressed to figure out how to make a smiley. Hope your day is great. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/3 "2008-11-27T15:04:18Z")
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! (Cool turkey, **What Exit?**!) So, who else is in the midst of cleaning and cooking? My guests aren’t coming till after 5, so I’ll get some relaxation time, but right now, I’m in the manic clean and cook stage. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/4 "2008-11-27T16:00:51Z")
The Macy’s parade just got Rickrolled. Best. Thanksgiving. EVAR. ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/5 "2008-11-27T16:03:37Z")
I started with the manic cooking phase and got muffins, pie and pumpkin bread into the oven and cleaned up the mess. Now I get to take a break before making stuffing. That won’t take long and they I have hours to do everything else while the turkey cooks. I used to run a shelter where we had to cook 70 turkeys every year and feed 500 people so cooking at home for four is a breeze. Happy Thanksgiving 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/6 "2008-11-27T16:05:32Z")
Cool bird **What Exit?**. Happy Thanksgiving to all! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/7 "2008-11-27T16:11:42Z")
Just to clarify, that is a public domain Ascii Art Turkey, I’m not that creative or at least I didn’t have enough time to make it myself. > [@gardentraveler](#): > > So, who else is in the midst of cleaning and cooking? My guests aren’t coming till after 5, so I’ll get some relaxation time, but right now, I’m in the manic clean and cook stage. We’ve been at it since Saturday. I completed spray bleaching washing all the cabinet front and now my cleaning is at last complete. (Until the clean-up tonight.) My wife is being assisted in the cooking by her Mom, her brother and SIL and our daughter. I’m get to relax and set the tables at about 1pm. We have 24 for dinner and 26 for desert. This should be fun. Jim ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/8 "2008-11-27T16:14:46Z")
And to everyone sitting around all day in his ratty underwear, forking corn out of the can and swilling Colt .45s while watching the Lions get their asses kicked, I’m sure Jim joins me in wishing you a pleasant day as well! ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/9 "2008-11-27T16:35:52Z")
Rickrolled parade. XD That was brilliant. I won’t be cooking the turkey until later. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/10 "2008-11-27T16:43:35Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > The Macy’s parade just got Rickrolled. > > Best. Thanksgiving. EVAR. I’m not even close to TV, so can someone tell me what this means? (Not rickrolled, just how it applies to Macy’s Parade.) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/11 "2008-11-27T16:55:41Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > And to everyone sitting around all day in his ratty underwear, forking corn out of the can and swilling Colt .45s while watching the Lions get their asses kicked, I’m sure Jim joins me in wishing you a pleasant day as well! However you celebrate, but I hope you exaggerate. It was of course an open greeting. I hope you are whooshing me with the Colt .45s. I thought you had better taste. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/12 "2008-11-27T19:06:25Z")
> [@SiXSwordS](#): > > …can someone tell me what this means? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/13 "2008-11-27T19:17:30Z")
Gobble Gobble all! Pie is cooking, tom awaits his fate in the oven, there are munchies about, and nobody in the house is dressed in anything more formal than sweats and casual shirts. I am happy. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/14 "2008-11-27T19:24:00Z")
> [@SiXSwordS](#): > > Anyone? > Anyone? > Bueller? > Bueller? Apparently, Rick Astley performed the “Never Gonna Let You Down” song at the Macy’s Thanksgiving’s Day Parade. Link here, uncoded, 'cuz no one would believe that I wasn’t just rickrolling him: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TMwO9PX4_7c/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/TMwO9PX4_7c?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Oh, and Jim? I don’t actually drink beer, or malt ales or whatever the hell Colt .45 is, and I haven’t had corn of any kind in a year or so, but I didn’t want to allow someone whose idea that represented of a Thanksgiving Day feast to feel alienated. I eat pretty well, never so well as I do chez toi, but I’m a pretty good cook, if I say so myself. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/15 "2008-11-27T21:11:46Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > Apparently, Rick Astley performed the “Never Gonna Let You Down” song at the Macy’s Thanksgiving’s Day Parade. Link here, uncoded, 'cuz no one would believe that I wasn’t just rickrolling him: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMwO9PX4\_7c](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMwO9PX4_7c) _shakes fist_ I saw the video and laughed for about five minutes straight, it is truly a thing of deep beauty and wonder. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/16 "2008-11-27T22:07:25Z")
It is. I laughed just as long, and then had to explain both why I was laughing and the concept of rickrolling to my 93-year-old grandmother and 65-year-old mom, neither of whom are anything close to internet savvy. Of course the whole thing was weird to start out with - when’s the last time _anyone_ sang the theme song to “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”? Other friends of mine say the joke is officially dead and I’m inclined to agree, but this was a hell of a way to kill it. Time to go sleep the food coma off and prepare for the holiday season. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/17 "2008-11-27T22:18:05Z")
Happy Thanksgiving Amurrkin Dopers! I hosted our annual we don’t live around here so have no family around dinner today. Fifteen people showed up. I fried a turkey, baked a ham, made the dressing (we southerners eat cornbread dressing), giblet gravy and collard greens. I also made a [Lane Cake](http://members.nuvox.net/~zt.proicer/recipes/laneck.htm). I had never made a cake from scratch before which means I had to pick one that’s a real PITA to make but it turned out good. I did not use the candied cherries cause they’re nasty. Others brought side dishes, the appetizer (warm artichoke dip!), pies and wine. It was a feast. The turkey fryer is cleaned up as is the kitchen and all the plates, glasses, cups, silverware, etc is washin’ away in the dishwasher. Time for a couple of beerverages and relaxation! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/18 "2008-11-27T22:44:28Z")
Happy Thanksgiving all. We’re just about to sit down. We drove from California to St. Louis with a car we’re giving our daughter and her husband. They flew in with a suitcase full of turkey and fixings. We’re flying back, and they’re driving back to NJ. We had perfect weather all the way, good rooms, good dinners, and even had time for some fun. And their plane was on time. So far, perfect, and the turkey smells good also. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/19 "2008-11-28T15:29:25Z")
This is probably the best Thanksgiving I’ve ever had. Wednesday night we drove 4 hours to Syracuse to see my favorite person – my Aunt Annie – and her delightful husband. We got there about 1am and stayed up talking about our crazy family and sharing _McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes._ The next morning I woke up with absolutely nothing I was required to do, and was introduced to the most magical game since _Lemmings_, _World of Goo_. The rest of my day alternated between playing _World of Goo_, eating ridiculously good turkey with homemade cranberry sauce, and watching _Kiki’s Delivery Service_. I didn’t even have to get dressed. It was a thing of beauty. Today I am going to finish three of my applications to graduate school – all I have to do is mail out the transcripts. I will play more _World of Goo_ and then some people are coming over, and there will be a cheese log involved somewhere. It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to truly relax like this. I have been putting a lot of extra time at work (that I don’t really get paid for) and wearing myself out between the job and graduate school applications. But for the rest of the weekend I am just here, on the sofa, with three of my best friends (my Aunt, her husband, and my husband.) They are all the family I require. Do you know what I am truly thankful for? I am an adult no longer living under the tyranny of irrational parents. As such, I wanted homemade pumpkin pie for breakfast and nobody could tell me no. This is truly worthy of gratitude. Adulthood rocks. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/474698/20 "2008-11-28T15:50:36Z")
Happy day to all. Our dinner went very well, but then there was just the two of us. We sat looking out at about five inches of new snow. My toast to my spouse was that I was thankful that my ancestors were brave enough to come on the Mayflower and create a country so great that it made her ancestors want to come here to live. Otherwise we never would have met.