Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! And remember, turkeys can’t fly (except maybe in a very high wind.)

Bonfire of the Absurdities: After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.

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  • This one too is one of my favorites. Les Nesman doing the "Hindenburg" report on the falling turkeys was priceless.

    Happy Thanksgiving y'all.

  • Add me to the list of this being one of my all-time fav shows! WKRP was truly funny, without being crude as so many of today's comedy shows are.

  • Happy Thanksgiving, ALL! Think of me as I work tonight while the rest of you stuff yourselves with 'stuffing' and mashed potatoes, turkey, gravy, bean casserole, sweet potato pie, cranberry dressing, baked ham, pie, cake, puddings, desert coffees and sweet teas, etc., etc., etc.. Go ahead and add your favorite Thanksgiving treat here, I actually volunteered to work for a another guy tonight so he could enjoy a family get together with some folks he hasn't seen in over ten years. I'll move my turkey day to my next day off--Friday! Have a great time!

    • Happy Thanksgiving Friday!

      also, Flash, you're killing me.

      bacon-wrapped turkey. INDEED!

      EDIT: and smoked no less.

    • You're a good guy Hisham. I used to work in a rock bar as a bouncer, and we were always open on Thanksgiving night, so I had to work. It wasn't too bad, lots of young people trying to relax after a day with loud relatives!

    • Good for you. It happens. I've worked on holidays and I have continued to do so, not necessarily for others to enjoy their holiday but simply because to me it doesn't matter. Unless I am in a situation with a lot of family I really don't bother. Today I had McDonald's. I wasn't going to go crazy cooking all kinds of stuff for just me. So enjoy that extra money honey!

      • When I used to work for Domino's Pizza way back in my college days, I used to have to work on Thanksgiving because it was one of our biggest sales days. I ate a lot of pizza then, especially on Thanksgiving.

        • Yeah, I noticed! Some people just aren't happy unless they're hating on something, or someone. Who ever it is, they don't like me, you, poppajoe, oddballz, Flash, Red Robster and Not so Silent. Who could that be??? Hummm. Who did we all shit on, in recent memory?

    • You are a good man. I cannot count how many holidays I worked when I was single and unattached so that others could spend the day(s) with their family's/significant others.

      To me, it was just another day, to them.......

      • Being empty nesters, my wife and I didn't see a need to go all out on a big dinner; since my son and his wife are either in Kentucky, with his in-laws, and my daughter invited my wife to a big family get together with her in-laws. I could use the extra money and she could use the break from all the work that goes into such a big endeavor.

      • That's how I always looked at it. I can't tell one day from the next. If they needed someone to keep an eye on things on a holiday, I'll accept the triple time graciously.

    • You're a good guy, hisham. My lady had to work 12 hours last night, and again tonight, so we had our bacon-wrapped turkey, hot out of the smoker, Monday.

  • Wild turkeys can fly very well. Those butterballs raised for our Thanksgiving tables can barely stand up. Here in a few hours I will barely be able to stand up.

    Happy Thanksgiving and God bless you.

  • Reminds me of the time my boss, the souvenir concessions manager for all sorts of motorsports events, had us fill his custom painted stepvan with helium balloons to release at half-time at the Superbowl of Motocross in the Los Angeles Coliseum.

    We had LOTS of work to do the day of the event, so he had us fill the balloons the day before. There we were, in the center of the stadium floor, with a packed crowd, when we opened the back doors of the van, and pushed all the balloons out. Onto the ground. Helium balloons lose their buoyancy if left to sit for 36 hours or so.

    I'll never forget the sight of my boss running around in the balloons, frantically tossing them into the air, screaming. "Fly, fly! Fly, you MFers!" Then I collapsed onto the back of the van, tears flowing. I had never laughed so hard in my life.

  • My favorite similar scene is from Married With Children, where Kelly has fallen in love with the turkey they intended as the guest of honor. Yes, she throws it out the second floor window, and I think the camera freezes with this look of absolute abject horror on her face!

  • WKRP one of the funniest shows ever. :) and yes StinaM it was my favorite too.

    Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Please remember those who have the feet in the dirt and those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for us. Just a personal thing, I set a plate for a SEAL team member that I know who gave his life for us.

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