One of the benefits of just being with the critters today is I made a normal meal, not a feast. Though, I am missing pie. Wonder if there’s any in the freezer…
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Schlemazel
very nice dinner. Tissue Thin stopped by to eat so that was nice. Yeah, ate too much but it was all good. had a very nice nap so a decent day.
I ate too much, but not as much too much as some years. My aunt took a different route to my parents’and got lost, but dinner want delayed too much.
Then stopped by the in-laws nursing home, where the woman working the reception desk joked that she was waiting for someone to bring her pie. So I went back out and brought her the leftover piece of pie I was bringing home, and it just made her day.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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Mary G
I am off to the feast, having skipped lunch to make room.
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danielx
Passed up dessert and still feel bloated, but a nap and assisted coffee helped. I done skipped out from my sister-in-law’s after dinner, since the spousal unit was going to go through family photos with her three sisters. Whenever all four of them are in the same place for too long it inevitably ends in tears for somebody; this is like the sun coming up tomorrow morning. There will be squabbles over who gets what pics and who did the lion’s share of babysitting way back when, since they all know how to push each others’ buttons. I would rather spend the rest of my life at a Barry Manilow concert than be around while this is going on.
Edit: @raven: There started to be a discussion about the election and by more or less common consent it was terminated. If I got started with my witch of a sister in law (and Trump supporter) from Seattle, it would end with me telling her to get on a fucking airplane tonight.
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JPL
Dishes are finished, and the company is gone. Now Finch and I are going to cozy up on the sofa. Nona the maltese came and Frodo, a chihuahua, jack russell mix, came. The mutts had no idea that Trump is the President-elect and the human family members evaded the subject. My daughter-in-law was in NYC for business on election night. She said that the next day, there was a definite pall over the city.
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Poopyman
Still haven’t eaten due to a few kitchen setbacks. Just got a few minutes to check in while staunching the blood where I sliced my thumb instead of a mushroom. Not too bad, and we’ll be eating by 8:00 in any case.
Everyone is fed, pies eaten with enough left over for breakfast, dishes are washed, and the food is put away. I decided to go to bed early so all the kids can hang out without an old around.
The dog is asleep on my feet and all is peaceful in my little corner of the world.
I spent the entire day in the kitchen, by the time we sat down ah hour ago to eat, I had no desire to eat. So I sat and kept everyone company, and now I’m sitting down with my 10 years old to watch Star Wars.
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hovercraft
@MomSense:
We’re only done with round one, they are all cleaning up, we’ll do desert later, but we also have way too many leftovers. I envy your going to bed already, I hope you’re off tomorrow.
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mm
Thank you to the person here who recommended phys.org
I’ll send the dog through first to clear a path. ?
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MazeDancer
If you go to a Thanksgiving Dinner, you are supposed to eat too much. That’s the tradition. It’s only polite.
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tybee
decided last night that the weather was going to be too nice on thursday so we postponed T day 24 hours and slithered out to an uninhabited barrier island for a few hours…nothing quite like being on a 2 mile long beach with no one else…
True, but I have gotten myself down to under 180 lbs for the first time in seven years. This is an accomplishment I do not wish to give up. No pie for me, dammit.
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JMG
All went well. Only issue is that since this was the first time Alice and I were alone for Thanksgiving, our smaller turkey got done faster than expected. So she begged off making apple pie, which she’ll make tomorrow. No problem. We had a pear, blue cheese and a Rhone wine for dessert. All good.
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dcrefugee
Daughter and I roasted a bird and made stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy. Son got to clean it up. Now at a movie theater for the evening. Can barely move, and I don’t want any Milk Duds!
@MomSense: it’s nice! Tshirt, cotton light sweater, light wool pea coat does the trick. So… exactly what it looks like ?
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debit
My dinner went really well. No politics at all, just food and good conversation. I hope every holiday meal going forward goes this well.
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Pogonip
Well, I have a bad cold and so can’t taste much of anything. Fortunately our Thanksgiving is to be held at a fantastic down-home restaurant on Saturday so I have another day to improve.
I would rather spend the rest of my life at a Barry Manilow concert than be around while this is going on.
Hey, watch it now!! BM had some good songs back in the 70s. I remember swooning to “I Can’t Smile Without You” as a kid carpooling to middle school. Good times.
@Pogonip: Thanks Obama!! will never get old. I love how it was turned into a wink wink joke by lefties.
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RedDirtGirl
Oh. My. God. I probably should have stopped after the second piece of pie!
How is she feeling? Did she have the surgery back home?
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raven
@MomSense: Yea, we got lucky on that account. Walked into the ortho clinic sunday, they were able to get us on “we’ll fit you in” for Monday and we got a call at 7am and she was first. She loves this holiday stuff so she cooked a bunch of complicated stuff to take with us.
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Glidwrith
Thought I ate too much, then I burped. Perfect.
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debit
@Pogonip: He only got some leftover mac and cheese, but he was enthusiastic about it.
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SenyorDave
I would rather spend the rest of my life at a Barry Manilow concert than be around while this is going on.
Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl…
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tybee
@raven: i saw the pic of the bull you caught. nice fish.
we went out the 10th/11th and caught more than we were willing to clean but nothing that size.
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Pogonip
@debit: No turkey? Is he allergic, or doesn’t like turkey? (Somewhere, there is a dog who doesn’t like something, and who knows? Walter may be that dog.)
Did he finally resign himself to the ugly reality of having to make his mighty poops in the mightier Minnsota snow?
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Pogonip
@Glidwrith: Now, THAT’S the kind of detailed, yet succinct, reporting the lazy mainstream media ought to emulate!
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Pogonip
@hovercraft: Don’t forget to tell him Han fired first. Bind these words on your doorposts and teach them to your children.
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NotMax
Nice thing about Turkey Day cooklng is I get to drag out the immersion blender, which is always a gas to use.
All that’s left is to saute the proverbial boatload of mushrooms, blanch a dinghyful of spinach and then in a few hours prepare the meat for oven insertion.
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JMG
The last act. Our neighborhood’s trash pickup day is usually Thursday, but of course this week it’s tomorrow. Man, there were a lot of empty bottles in our recycling this week. When I wake up, there won’t be cold apple pie for breakfast, but I’ll make do. First world hardships!
@NotMax:
here is my contribution – may well be the 5 funniest minutes in sit com history #4
I learned this year that the bit was based on an actual incident at an Atlanta radio station. The only difference was they used a tractor-trailer and not a helicopter.
Nice stress free time for the two of us. Smoked turkey and prime rib with all the fixings. Restaurant busy but not packed. We took home more than we ate.
70.
debit
@Pogonip: No such thing as left over turkey in my house. :) Yes, so far he’s dealing with the Minnesota snow, but it hasn’t been that cold. Yet.
My dad loves him so much and threatens to dognap him every time he comes over.
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Bumper
The wind is howling outside and the rain is pouring down but it’s nice to be inside, warm and dry, with just my immediate family. Just couldn’t handle more than this with the awful, awful year we’ve had. Soon we’ll be sitting down to a pork roast with dressing, mashed potatoes, and green salad, followed by the three pies and fresh whipped cream my teenager made. It’s been a pretty good Thanksgiving, all things considered.
I hope I’m not detecting sarcasm here o_O ! It WAS good – no fuss, no muss.
I’ve done plenty of the cook-all-day-not-hungry-at-dinner-which-all-disappears-in-ten-minutes-anyway-plus-dishes-up-the-yin-yang in the past. T-Day now stands for Take A Break Day!
eta: from your 2nd comment I detect sincerity :)
I had the pumpkin pie, sis had pecan. No complaints!
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EBT
I had some frozen burritos and pizza. Gonna food coma until D&D tomorrow I think.
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dance around in your bones
And so I get JMG and JPL mixed up. And I don’t even drink anymore! {{Sorry}}
True statement. The only thing that ever felt ‘false’ about the show was turning the monitor all the way down in the control room (unless the DJ was wearing headphones). Dead Air was the ultimate sin.
@efgoldman: Petula Clark. She was one of the acts at the Epcot Flower Power concert series a few years ago. Her voice was gone and the sound man was deaf. Dear God…
@EBT: please tell me that means dungeons and dragons.
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Poopyman
Finally sat down at 8:43, then inhaled everything. Now digesting and belching out all the air I swallowed. No pie, sadly. Mrs. P has Celiac’s. I might be dropping in, EF!
86.
Schlemazel
@efgoldman:
Meh, at least Neil could carry a tune. Schmaltz is schmaltz but a singer should be able to sing more than one note.
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dance around in your bones
@efgoldman: Sorry for the confusion. But sometimes sorry about the no drink, even though saying that is frowned upon in certain circles. Ah well.
Only five years at a commercial outlet, doing mainly engineering work, before I moved on to a different career path. But WKRP came out just a few years after I left radio and I often marveled how ‘true’ it felt.
91.
Martha
@rikyrah: oh we loved it! Now I’m sad because there’s nothing nearly as good to watch. Maybe I’ll have to read a book–hah!
92.
EBT
@Major Major Major Major: Yeah, it does. We are playing via Fantasy Grounds because distance. The DM kicked in for the ultimate version so we have access to all the official content.
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Yutsano
@dance around in your bones: There’s a Luby’s near where I stay when I go to a convention in Dallas. Haven’t tried it yet. Might fix that.
I learned about unintended side effects after inventing a “Great American Silver Dollar Giveaway” promotion. First caller after we inserted the sound of coins hitting a table would win a silver dollar (note: nickels and dimes make the best sound). We’d “drop the coins” in the middle of songs, between commercials, etc. The problem was the “first caller” bit. Kids came home from school around 3:30 pm and dialed all but the last digit of the station’s public phone number. Tied up the phone switches in two towns, which was a public hazard as you couldn’t call 911; you’d get a ‘busy’ signal when you tried to dial the second digit. We changed the rules to the fifth or sixth caller, which eased the pressure on the local phone system.
Chaotic evil is now reserved for the Railing Carrot.
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EBT
@NotMax: I had completely missed 4th edition and it’s crazy sounding 5 axis alignment system. This is my first time trying 5th and it’s some strange amalgam of 4th, 2nd, and basic.
@Yutsano: Temper your expectations, because really, it’s cafeteria food. But if you’re in the mood for inexpensive American grub, it’s good. The staff were unfailingly peppy, polite and helpful. (I told my sis they probably get that beaten into them in training – I have a somewhat cynical view of food service). Turkey, taters and dressing were fine!
eta: Corner, don’t you hang on my every comment?! I live in El Paso now (though close enough to New Mex that I can squint my eyes and pretend). I don’t think I’m a proto-Texan, however. ABQ all the way!
Where was living in the boonies of PA way back when, we had a party line. Our ring was two shorts.
Kids today have no idea.
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EBT
@Mnemosyne: Oh yeah bugger trying to look at a handheld screen with a rake.
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Lizzy L
Good meal, good company. I ate a little too much… I got home just after dark. Gonna walk the dog, and then settle in with a book. I might have a late evening cup of coffee, just for a treat.
If you can stand it, WaPo online has an article in the Business section about the way Russian propaganda sites manipulated USA fake news to support Trump and “punish” Hillary Clinton.
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PsiFighter37
Some asshole wandered into the hotel I’m staying at in Philly wearing a Trump hat. Old white guy, naturally. He should know better than to wear that in a town that voted 85% for Clinton…basically signaling that he is an asshole, and many other things, to everyone in the hotel bar.
@EBT: I’ve been wanting to play Fate or a Fate-derived system lately. DnD is a bit simulationist for where I’m at psychologically.
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Corner Stone
@JPL: Not to be a braggadoche, but I made one of the more kickass dark roux I have ever attempted, then turned it in to a seriously delicious gumbo. My 12 yr old cleaned up the dining table (his school work space and general garbage time repository, unfortunately) without complaint.
I felt bad for my mom in not being with her only grandchild but we had talked about it all and she just wasn’t feeling it this year, either.
We actually started by watching several of the Conan O’Brien segments where he fails at playing video games, but then the DSes came out. Now it’s a choice between my iPad, peering over a teenager’s shoulder, or watching sportsball. And I don’t like sportsball.
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PsiFighter37
@schrodinger’s cat: My only solace is that he’s sitting in a corner by himself. I am pretty sure he knows he’d get a shitload of dirty looks if he sat at the bar.
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raven
Herman to LSU.
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EBT
@Major Major Major Major: Well if you know people and distance is the issue FG supports at least the FATE core system. You need to remember Fantasy Grounds is a tool and you can blithely do the wrong thing and nothing will beep at you or refuse to let you do it. But if everyone is basically aware it is way better than maptool or the such. Drag and drop right from the rule manuals in to your character sheet, complete with links back to the rules.
sleep (86400 * 22 * 354)
POST {body: “I ate too much.}
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Ian
@efgoldman:
Restaurant. And it was a fucking blast. But the dishes part wasn’t very fun at all.
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Corner Stone
@NotMax: No doubt. And I was using a thin bottomed stock pot so I stirred that damn roux for 40 F’ng straight minutes without fail. I was like an ER doc asking the nurse to mop the sweat offa me.
So maybe saying “easy” wasn’t exactly correct. But I knew what I was in for and it came out so I guess that’s all we can shoot for sometimes.
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Kathleen
@Schlemazel: That episode was one of the most perfectly crafted comedy pieces I’ve ever seen. I want to write something as good as that someday.
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Kathleen
@efgoldman: My dad was “living on the air in Cincinnati” when WKRP was on the air. His general manager was friends with Hugh Wilson. Dad started in radio in 1944 in Fremont, Nebraska, and he had a treasure trove of stories about radio people.
ETA And I think Schlemazel remembers him from his days at KDWB in St. Paul.
Went to the Mendenhall Inn up in today with the family (last-minute call: mother-in-law’s back has been giving her heck so everyone agreed dining out would be better). Not too bad. Gorged on stuffed salmon and crab cakes (rebel!).
Lowlight of the event was when a very elderly lady had to have the Heimlich maneuver a few tables away…she survived, but it was a near thing. Highlight…um…making it back to NoVA in 2 hours 25 min thanks to Mrs. Fro’s lead foot?
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Bumper
@dance around in your bones: my mom and her friend from Texas loved Luby’s, til they closed down in the old neighborhood. Just found a Luby’s cookbook in her cookbook collection. The Texas sheet cake was awesome!
Relative, my ass! That looks like Carlos the Jackal!
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No One You Know
Very quiet today; Turkey breast & fixings will feed three. We had the annual playing of and discussion of why Arlo Guthrie and the Alice’s Restaurant Massacree was important. Son took it over to the “other” Thanksgiving dinner held by a friend who bought 22 lbs of turkey and needed help eating it.
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Elie
Pigged out on mighty fine turkey and all trimmings with close friends. Good time and fun – dancing and joking and more eating. Needed this badly.
Tonight it’s pouring rain and the wind is howling a bit. Can see a tug boat taking shelter in the bay, waiting to go out for a tanker to bring in to Cherry Point or vise versa. Hung fresh nectar for the over wintering Anna’s hummingbirds earlier today. Seeing hummers in the winter just started for us a couple of winters ago.
Happy Thanksgiving to my Juicer friends. We got each other and that means a lot to me. Thank you
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aangus
:p
JMG
You’re not alone there.
raven
Nice dinner and not a word of politics. Got home to fast forward though the Eer’s killing my Illini in hoop. Now for some football.
debbie
I skipped my family’s Thanksgiving and instead cooked for myself and am still too full.
satby
One of the benefits of just being with the critters today is I made a normal meal, not a feast. Though, I am missing pie. Wonder if there’s any in the freezer…
Schlemazel
very nice dinner. Tissue Thin stopped by to eat so that was nice. Yeah, ate too much but it was all good. had a very nice nap so a decent day.
Yutsano
This is as it should be.
Also: will be me soon.
Yutsano
Retry:
This is as it should be.
Also: me soon.
Central Planning
Me too. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Redshift
I ate too much, but not as much too much as some years. My aunt took a different route to my parents’and got lost, but dinner want delayed too much.
Then stopped by the in-laws nursing home, where the woman working the reception desk joked that she was waiting for someone to bring her pie. So I went back out and brought her the leftover piece of pie I was bringing home, and it just made her day.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Mary G
I am off to the feast, having skipped lunch to make room.
danielx
Passed up dessert and still feel bloated, but a nap and assisted coffee helped. I done skipped out from my sister-in-law’s after dinner, since the spousal unit was going to go through family photos with her three sisters. Whenever all four of them are in the same place for too long it inevitably ends in tears for somebody; this is like the sun coming up tomorrow morning. There will be squabbles over who gets what pics and who did the lion’s share of babysitting way back when, since they all know how to push each others’ buttons. I would rather spend the rest of my life at a Barry Manilow concert than be around while this is going on.
Edit: @raven: There started to be a discussion about the election and by more or less common consent it was terminated. If I got started with my witch of a sister in law (and Trump supporter) from Seattle, it would end with me telling her to get on a fucking airplane tonight.
JPL
Dishes are finished, and the company is gone. Now Finch and I are going to cozy up on the sofa. Nona the maltese came and Frodo, a chihuahua, jack russell mix, came. The mutts had no idea that Trump is the President-elect and the human family members evaded the subject. My daughter-in-law was in NYC for business on election night. She said that the next day, there was a definite pall over the city.
Poopyman
Still haven’t eaten due to a few kitchen setbacks. Just got a few minutes to check in while staunching the blood where I sliced my thumb instead of a mushroom. Not too bad, and we’ll be eating by 8:00 in any case.
JPL
@Mary G: Enjoy!
MomSense
Everyone is fed, pies eaten with enough left over for breakfast, dishes are washed, and the food is put away. I decided to go to bed early so all the kids can hang out without an old around.
The dog is asleep on my feet and all is peaceful in my little corner of the world.
Major Major Major Major
Just got checked in at Monterey. Here’s a nice panorama from my room, with a bonus relative at the end!
hovercraft
I spent the entire day in the kitchen, by the time we sat down ah hour ago to eat, I had no desire to eat. So I sat and kept everyone company, and now I’m sitting down with my 10 years old to watch Star Wars.
hovercraft
@MomSense:
We’re only done with round one, they are all cleaning up, we’ll do desert later, but we also have way too many leftovers. I envy your going to bed already, I hope you’re off tomorrow.
mm
Thank you to the person here who recommended phys.org
It is my new favourite website.
raven
@Major Major Major Major: Down in Montery
Redshift
@Major Major Major Major: Nice!
MomSense
@hovercraft:
The nice thing about inviting a dozen college kids to spend Thanksgiving is that they eat all the food and can wash and dry all the dishes in a flash.
Hope you can put your feet up soon! Tomorrow is a quiet day. We may go for a nice hike in the afternoon but otherwise there are no plans.
JPL
@mm: Favorite? I assumed that this was your favorite. Thanks for posting the link, since I had not seen it.
JPL
@MomSense: It sounds like fun. Be careful in the morning climbing over bodies.
MomSense
@Major Major Major Major:
Very pretty. Looks a lot warmer than the view out my window.
MomSense
@JPL:
I’ll send the dog through first to clear a path. ?
MazeDancer
If you go to a Thanksgiving Dinner, you are supposed to eat too much. That’s the tradition. It’s only polite.
tybee
decided last night that the weather was going to be too nice on thursday so we postponed T day 24 hours and slithered out to an uninhabited barrier island for a few hours…nothing quite like being on a 2 mile long beach with no one else…
raven
@tybee: and. . .
danielx
@MazeDancer:
True, but I have gotten myself down to under 180 lbs for the first time in seven years. This is an accomplishment I do not wish to give up. No pie for me, dammit.
JMG
All went well. Only issue is that since this was the first time Alice and I were alone for Thanksgiving, our smaller turkey got done faster than expected. So she begged off making apple pie, which she’ll make tomorrow. No problem. We had a pear, blue cheese and a Rhone wine for dessert. All good.
dcrefugee
Daughter and I roasted a bird and made stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy. Son got to clean it up. Now at a movie theater for the evening. Can barely move, and I don’t want any Milk Duds!
Major Major Major Major
@MomSense: it’s nice! Tshirt, cotton light sweater, light wool pea coat does the trick. So… exactly what it looks like ?
debit
My dinner went really well. No politics at all, just food and good conversation. I hope every holiday meal going forward goes this well.
Pogonip
Well, I have a bad cold and so can’t taste much of anything. Fortunately our Thanksgiving is to be held at a fantastic down-home restaurant on Saturday so I have another day to improve.
I blame Obama AND Donald Trump.
tybee
@raven:
…and we may do that again on saturday.
raven
@tybee: I only got to fish a couple of days before the girl broke her wrist and 2 weeks turned into 6 days..
Major Major Major Major
@raven: nice fish.
Pogonip
@debit: And what is gourmet Walter’s appraisal of the leftovers?
Patricia Kayden
@danielx:
Hey, watch it now!! BM had some good songs back in the 70s. I remember swooning to “I Can’t Smile Without You” as a kid carpooling to middle school. Good times.
@Pogonip: Thanks Obama!! will never get old. I love how it was turned into a wink wink joke by lefties.
RedDirtGirl
Oh. My. God. I probably should have stopped after the second piece of pie!
raven
@Major Major Major Major: Thanks, it was 13″ over the limit so back she went.
MomSense
@raven:
How is she feeling? Did she have the surgery back home?
raven
@MomSense: Yea, we got lucky on that account. Walked into the ortho clinic sunday, they were able to get us on “we’ll fit you in” for Monday and we got a call at 7am and she was first. She loves this holiday stuff so she cooked a bunch of complicated stuff to take with us.
Glidwrith
Thought I ate too much, then I burped. Perfect.
debit
@Pogonip: He only got some leftover mac and cheese, but he was enthusiastic about it.
SenyorDave
I would rather spend the rest of my life at a Barry Manilow concert than be around while this is going on.
Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl…
tybee
@raven: i saw the pic of the bull you caught. nice fish.
we went out the 10th/11th and caught more than we were willing to clean but nothing that size.
Pogonip
@debit: No turkey? Is he allergic, or doesn’t like turkey? (Somewhere, there is a dog who doesn’t like something, and who knows? Walter may be that dog.)
Did he finally resign himself to the ugly reality of having to make his mighty poops in the mightier Minnsota snow?
Pogonip
@Glidwrith: Now, THAT’S the kind of detailed, yet succinct, reporting the lazy mainstream media ought to emulate!
Pogonip
@hovercraft: Don’t forget to tell him Han fired first. Bind these words on your doorposts and teach them to your children.
NotMax
Nice thing about Turkey Day cooklng is I get to drag out the immersion blender, which is always a gas to use.
All that’s left is to saute the proverbial boatload of mushrooms, blanch a dinghyful of spinach and then in a few hours prepare the meat for oven insertion.
JMG
The last act. Our neighborhood’s trash pickup day is usually Thursday, but of course this week it’s tomorrow. Man, there were a lot of empty bottles in our recycling this week. When I wake up, there won’t be cold apple pie for breakfast, but I’ll make do. First world hardships!
satby
@efgoldman: aww, wish I could drop by! But, happy news, found a slice of Edwards Key Lime pie in the freezer, so it’s all good.
Major Major Major Major
@raven: well, being responsible is important!
SWMBO
Leonard Pitts is a treasure.
rikyrah
Five hours until Gilmore Girls drops on Netflix ?????
rikyrah
I am LOVING The Crown ? on Netflix????
NotMax
Obligatory Thanksgiving clips.
#1 – #2 – #3
Schlemazel
Oh dear! Please, nothing could be that bad. Could it?
dance around in your bones
Well, my sister and I went to Luby’s Cafeteria in El Paso, so no overeating. Food was good (if not gourmet) and fast + reasonable. Place was packed with lines going out the door after we sat down at around 1:30. It’s a kind of 60’s era building with huge floor to ceiling windows giving great views of the https://www.google.com/search?q=franklin+mountains+el+paso+images&biw=1022&bih=386&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ9MCu3cLQAhXGqFQKHaV7CcQQ7AkIMQ. Blue blue sky and white clouds, warm and sunny – a beautiful day. I brought home a square of jalapeño corn bread that I’ve slathered with butter and eaten already ;)
Schlemazel
@NotMax:
here is my contribution – may well be the 5 funniest minutes in sit com history
#4
I learned this year that the bit was based on an actual incident at an Atlanta radio station. The only difference was they used a tractor-trailer and not a helicopter.
satby
@rikyrah: Oh yeah!!!
JMG
@dance around in your bones: Gosh that sounds good.
AliceBlue
@Schlemazel:
The whole show was based on Atlanta radio station WQXI (“Qwiksie in Dixie”).
Schlemazel
@AliceBlue:
That was what I learned. I had not heard that before.
JPL
@dance around in your bones: At least in the eighties, Luby’s had the best pie.
delk
Nice stress free time for the two of us. Smoked turkey and prime rib with all the fixings. Restaurant busy but not packed. We took home more than we ate.
debit
@Pogonip: No such thing as left over turkey in my house. :) Yes, so far he’s dealing with the Minnesota snow, but it hasn’t been that cold. Yet.
My dad loves him so much and threatens to dognap him every time he comes over.
Bumper
The wind is howling outside and the rain is pouring down but it’s nice to be inside, warm and dry, with just my immediate family. Just couldn’t handle more than this with the awful, awful year we’ve had. Soon we’ll be sitting down to a pork roast with dressing, mashed potatoes, and green salad, followed by the three pies and fresh whipped cream my teenager made. It’s been a pretty good Thanksgiving, all things considered.
dance around in your bones
@JPL:
I hope I’m not detecting sarcasm here o_O ! It WAS good – no fuss, no muss.
I’ve done plenty of the cook-all-day-not-hungry-at-dinner-which-all-disappears-in-ten-minutes-anyway-plus-dishes-up-the-yin-yang in the past. T-Day now stands for Take A Break Day!
eta: from your 2nd comment I detect sincerity :)
I had the pumpkin pie, sis had pecan. No complaints!
EBT
I had some frozen burritos and pizza. Gonna food coma until D&D tomorrow I think.
dance around in your bones
And so I get JMG and JPL mixed up. And I don’t even drink anymore! {{Sorry}}
Pogonip
@debit: Awwww.
NotMax
@Schlemazel
Figured someone had already posted it or was going to, so stuck to movies.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Neil Sedaka? Wayne Newton?
Ruviana
@efgoldman: THIS!
Comrade Scrutinizer
@efgoldman: Michael Bolton. Much worse than Neil Diamond.
OldDave
@efgoldman:
True statement. The only thing that ever felt ‘false’ about the show was turning the monitor all the way down in the control room (unless the DJ was wearing headphones). Dead Air was the ultimate sin.
JPL
@dance around in your bones: Definitely not sarcastic. I actually purchased pies from Luby’s.
SWMBO
@efgoldman: Petula Clark. She was one of the acts at the Epcot Flower Power concert series a few years ago. Her voice was gone and the sound man was deaf. Dear God…
Comrade Scrutinizer
Karen Carpenter. Purest alto ever.
Edited because fucking autocorrect.
Major Major Major Major
@EBT: please tell me that means dungeons and dragons.
Poopyman
Finally sat down at 8:43, then inhaled everything. Now digesting and belching out all the air I swallowed. No pie, sadly. Mrs. P has Celiac’s. I might be dropping in, EF!
Schlemazel
@efgoldman:
Meh, at least Neil could carry a tune. Schmaltz is schmaltz but a singer should be able to sing more than one note.
dance around in your bones
@efgoldman: Sorry for the confusion. But sometimes sorry about the no drink, even though saying that is frowned upon in certain circles. Ah well.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Ooh, ooh, Gilbert O’Sullivan.
On the distaff side, Melanie.
Schlemazel
@OldDave:
I worked in radio for 3 years, never had as much fun as those guys.
OldDave
@efgoldman:
Only five years at a commercial outlet, doing mainly engineering work, before I moved on to a different career path. But WKRP came out just a few years after I left radio and I often marveled how ‘true’ it felt.
Martha
@rikyrah: oh we loved it! Now I’m sad because there’s nothing nearly as good to watch. Maybe I’ll have to read a book–hah!
EBT
@Major Major Major Major: Yeah, it does. We are playing via Fantasy Grounds because distance. The DM kicked in for the ultimate version so we have access to all the official content.
Yutsano
@dance around in your bones: There’s a Luby’s near where I stay when I go to a convention in Dallas. Haven’t tried it yet. Might fix that.
OldDave
@Schlemazel:
I learned about unintended side effects after inventing a “Great American Silver Dollar Giveaway” promotion. First caller after we inserted the sound of coins hitting a table would win a silver dollar (note: nickels and dimes make the best sound). We’d “drop the coins” in the middle of songs, between commercials, etc. The problem was the “first caller” bit. Kids came home from school around 3:30 pm and dialed all but the last digit of the station’s public phone number. Tied up the phone switches in two towns, which was a public hazard as you couldn’t call 911; you’d get a ‘busy’ signal when you tried to dial the second digit. We changed the rules to the fifth or sixth caller, which eased the pressure on the local phone system.
Mnemosyne
We have moved on to the portion of the evening where the teenagers try to convince me that watching them play videogames will be fun for me, too.
The really big problem is that they’re playing on their DSes, so I can barely see the screen from over their shoulders.
EBT
@Mnemosyne: In the right situation it can be. My roommate’s grandmother rather enjoyed watching both Undertale and Grim Fandango.
NotMax
@EBT
Chaotic evil is now reserved for the Railing Carrot.
EBT
@NotMax: I had completely missed 4th edition and it’s crazy sounding 5 axis alignment system. This is my first time trying 5th and it’s some strange amalgam of 4th, 2nd, and basic.
Major Major Major Major
@EBT: awesome!
Corner Stone
@dance around in your bones: El Paso? WTF?
dance around in your bones
@Yutsano: Temper your expectations, because really, it’s cafeteria food. But if you’re in the mood for inexpensive American grub, it’s good. The staff were unfailingly peppy, polite and helpful. (I told my sis they probably get that beaten into them in training – I have a somewhat cynical view of food service). Turkey, taters and dressing were fine!
eta: Corner, don’t you hang on my every comment?! I live in El Paso now (though close enough to New Mex that I can squint my eyes and pretend). I don’t think I’m a proto-Texan, however. ABQ all the way!
JPL
@Corner Stone: How was your day?
Corner Stone
@Yutsano: Fried fish with tartar sauce, mac & cheese, new potatoes and icebox pie.
Transport back to lodging.
Mnemosyne
@EBT:
If it was on the main TV, I wouldn’t mind as much, but the DS is kind of a pain.
@Major Major Major Major:
I made my family watch a couple of Gudetama videos. They were simultaneously fascinated and horrified, particularly by the dance at the end.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Where was living in the boonies of PA way back when, we had a party line. Our ring was two shorts.
Kids today have no idea.
EBT
@Mnemosyne: Oh yeah bugger trying to look at a handheld screen with a rake.
Lizzy L
Good meal, good company. I ate a little too much… I got home just after dark. Gonna walk the dog, and then settle in with a book. I might have a late evening cup of coffee, just for a treat.
If you can stand it, WaPo online has an article in the Business section about the way Russian propaganda sites manipulated USA fake news to support Trump and “punish” Hillary Clinton.
PsiFighter37
Some asshole wandered into the hotel I’m staying at in Philly wearing a Trump hat. Old white guy, naturally. He should know better than to wear that in a town that voted 85% for Clinton…basically signaling that he is an asshole, and many other things, to everyone in the hotel bar.
schrodinger's cat
@PsiFighter37: I haven’t seen one of those IRL, yet. I need to thank my lucky stars. I guess.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: excellent.
@EBT: I’ve been wanting to play Fate or a Fate-derived system lately. DnD is a bit simulationist for where I’m at psychologically.
Corner Stone
@JPL: Not to be a braggadoche, but I made one of the more kickass dark roux I have ever attempted, then turned it in to a seriously delicious gumbo. My 12 yr old cleaned up the dining table (his school work space and general garbage time repository, unfortunately) without complaint.
I felt bad for my mom in not being with her only grandchild but we had talked about it all and she just wasn’t feeling it this year, either.
IOW, we had a great day. Very peaceful and easy.
Mnemosyne
@EBT:
We actually started by watching several of the Conan O’Brien segments where he fails at playing video games, but then the DSes came out. Now it’s a choice between my iPad, peering over a teenager’s shoulder, or watching sportsball. And I don’t like sportsball.
PsiFighter37
@schrodinger’s cat: My only solace is that he’s sitting in a corner by himself. I am pretty sure he knows he’d get a shitload of dirty looks if he sat at the bar.
raven
Herman to LSU.
EBT
@Major Major Major Major: Well if you know people and distance is the issue FG supports at least the FATE core system. You need to remember Fantasy Grounds is a tool and you can blithely do the wrong thing and nothing will beep at you or refuse to let you do it. But if everyone is basically aware it is way better than maptool or the such. Drag and drop right from the rule manuals in to your character sheet, complete with links back to the rules.
mattH
@Major Major Major Major: Beautiful.
Atw well, not overstuffed. Lyn was trying to maintain a buzz all day, but I don’t think the swill she was drinking will do it.
JPL
@Corner Stone: NIce
Ian
I cooked too much. I made 127 turkey dinners, 41 tamale dinners, and 6 vegetarian dinners.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Congrats. Can’t take the eyes off a roux for so much as a half second.
JPL
@Ian: yes you did, but was it fun?
bago
sleep (86400 * 22 * 354)
POST {body: “I ate too much.}
Ian
@efgoldman:
Restaurant. And it was a fucking blast. But the dishes part wasn’t very fun at all.
Corner Stone
@NotMax: No doubt. And I was using a thin bottomed stock pot so I stirred that damn roux for 40 F’ng straight minutes without fail. I was like an ER doc asking the nurse to mop the sweat offa me.
So maybe saying “easy” wasn’t exactly correct. But I knew what I was in for and it came out so I guess that’s all we can shoot for sometimes.
Kathleen
@Schlemazel: That episode was one of the most perfectly crafted comedy pieces I’ve ever seen. I want to write something as good as that someday.
Kathleen
@efgoldman: My dad was “living on the air in Cincinnati” when WKRP was on the air. His general manager was friends with Hugh Wilson. Dad started in radio in 1944 in Fremont, Nebraska, and he had a treasure trove of stories about radio people.
ETA And I think Schlemazel remembers him from his days at KDWB in St. Paul.
EBT
Have some light comedy to unwind with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml8k0ealgo8
Jeffro
Went to the Mendenhall Inn up in today with the family (last-minute call: mother-in-law’s back has been giving her heck so everyone agreed dining out would be better). Not too bad. Gorged on stuffed salmon and crab cakes (rebel!).
Lowlight of the event was when a very elderly lady had to have the Heimlich maneuver a few tables away…she survived, but it was a near thing. Highlight…um…making it back to NoVA in 2 hours 25 min thanks to Mrs. Fro’s lead foot?
Bumper
@dance around in your bones: my mom and her friend from Texas loved Luby’s, til they closed down in the old neighborhood. Just found a Luby’s cookbook in her cookbook collection. The Texas sheet cake was awesome!
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Major Major Major Major:
Relative, my ass! That looks like Carlos the Jackal!
No One You Know
Very quiet today; Turkey breast & fixings will feed three. We had the annual playing of and discussion of why Arlo Guthrie and the Alice’s Restaurant Massacree was important. Son took it over to the “other” Thanksgiving dinner held by a friend who bought 22 lbs of turkey and needed help eating it.
Elie
Pigged out on mighty fine turkey and all trimmings with close friends. Good time and fun – dancing and joking and more eating. Needed this badly.
Tonight it’s pouring rain and the wind is howling a bit. Can see a tug boat taking shelter in the bay, waiting to go out for a tanker to bring in to Cherry Point or vise versa. Hung fresh nectar for the over wintering Anna’s hummingbirds earlier today. Seeing hummers in the winter just started for us a couple of winters ago.
Happy Thanksgiving to my Juicer friends. We got each other and that means a lot to me. Thank you