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doppelganglander
11/28/2019 5:59:49 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2: One of my favorite traditions. WNEW-FM, the AOR station in New York, played it every year.
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Occasional Reader
11/28/2019 6:27:34 AM
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Happy Indigenous Peopleses Genocide Day, or whatever we are supposed to call it now.
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lucius septimius
11/28/2019 7:16:11 AM
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I'm enjoying the fact that, for once, I don't have to cook a thing this Thanksgiving.
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revobob
11/28/2019 7:30:29 AM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 6: Keeping it simple for Mrs revo this year- we'll be going next door for the big meal, taking the turkey, pistachio salad, cookies, orange-cranberry relish, and wine. They will have a ham, dressing (3 kinds) rolls, bean casserole, and way too much other stuff. For 5 adults and 1 8 year old they really prepare too much food- then after everyone has eaten, it sits on the table for the rest of the afternoon, so I at least wouldn't risk eating the leftovers.
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Alice in Dairyland
11/28/2019 7:38:48 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving to all! I hope everyone has much to be grateful for in the coming year. A special thanks to Kosh for all he has done.
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lucius septimius
11/28/2019 8:50:52 AM
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In #8 Alice in Dairyland said: I hope everyone has much to be grateful for in the coming year. One can hope.
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lucius septimius
11/28/2019 8:55:08 AM
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As usual, I've been here five days, today is Thanksgiving, I leave on Sunday, and today Mom starts springing on me all kinds of things she absolutely positively needs done immediately before I leave. She could have told me, oh, before I got here, but that wouldn't be NEARLY as much fun as me having to spend my last two days running around like turkey with its head cut off.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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doppelganglander
11/28/2019 8:55:17 AM
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Reply to revobob in 7: Sounds wonderful! My son has been cooking all week, except when we've gone out or ordered Chinese, so I'm in charge today. Pumpkin pies are done, cranberry sauce is done, the turkey is in the oven, and I just started the second load of dishes. Now the kids have come back from taking my granddaughter to the park so now they're dirtying up a bunch of lunch dishes. I'm thinking it will be a five-load day.
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doppelganglander
11/28/2019 8:59:05 AM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 11: So don't. Do what you can and leave the rest. That makes the game less fun for her.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/28/2019 9:01:27 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2: My "Alice's Restaurant" Experience: Shortly after "Alice's Restaurant" came out, I and two friends were caught by the head of our high school art department making anti-school-administration graffiti on a drywall construction barrier near the art department after school hours. We had intended to go to a meeting of the "Human Affairs Club," where a Socialist speaker was scheduled, only to discover that the meeting had been canceled because an irate parent had called up the school objecting to their permitting "communists" to pollute young minds.
So there we were, wandering around the school with nothing to do; saw the wall; and decided to make our disapproval of the administration's action known. We wrote a number of pithy comments, but I suspect that my nude caricature of the assistant superintendent was one of the things that most upset the powers that be. We were relieved of our school IDs and sent home---and the school took numerous 8x10 (black and white) glossy photographs of our handiwork, to be used as evidence, and then quickly painted out the graffiti lest young minds be polluted. One of our band was a minister's son, who had never ever ever been in trouble before, and he was quite upset. His "advisor," though, was sane, and said to him the next day, "You won't do this again, will you?" Upon hearing "no," he restored our friend's ID and ended the suspension. I and my friend Bob, however, had the same advisor, and he was an ass. We knew he was an ass, and weren't quite sure what to do; and we didn't feel quite right about telling our parents, though we knew we'd eventually have to. We went over to Bob's house and got out the typewriter, and wrote the administration a letter from the imaginary lawfirm of Corpus & Luteum; our "attorney," H.B.S. Corpus, explained the position of his two "clients" for about a page and a half, and we hand-delivered this letter to the administration. The administration thought the letter was real. Yes, it did; recall this was around the time high-school students were suing over the right to have long hair, wear Moratorium armbands, and the like---and they fell for it completely. When they found that it was a fabrication of ours, they were, to put it gently, furious, and we had to do a lot of bowing and scraping before being readmitted to school. I should add that my father was running for the high school board at the time. Gilded memories. And Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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doppelganglander
11/28/2019 9:15:32 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 14: That is absolutely classic. I'm picturing you and your friends on the Group W bench. "Corpus & Luteum" is absolutely inspired.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/28/2019 9:18:02 AM
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Reply to doppelganglander in 15: Sadly, any copy of our letter we might have kept has vanished over the years. And happily, despite the whispering campaign against my father because his son had been suspended from the high school for vandalism, he won his election to the high school board.
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Kosh's Shadow
11/28/2019 10:46:18 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 16:
Reminds me of some lines from Firesign Theatre: Father: And stay out of trouble, boy. Your shenanigans could cost me this election. Peorgie: Gee, Dad. No Irishman can stop you from being dog killer this time (Honks outside) Peorge: There's Mudhead. Gotta go. Father: Oh, that son of mine! Mother: He's not your son, Adolph. Father: Stop torturing me, Ethel
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Kosh's Shadow
11/28/2019 10:48:52 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 14: Interesting. Today, you would have posted pictures of the graffiti on Instagram, and those images would be used against you for the rest of your life. I never had such experiences. Most of the crowd I was with even in high school weren't the type to protest.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/28/2019 11:55:10 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 19: Sadly, I cannot find a clip of Ginger Rogers singing "The Yam" from "Carefree"---only the dance that follows her vocal, above. For an interesting cross-reference, there's a scene in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" where the narrator buys two yams from a Harlem street-seller, accepting his own ethnicity and his own taste for traditional black cuisine, which is an allusion to the hands held up in the "Yam dance" that Fred and Ginger do.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/28/2019 1:38:52 PM
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For those of you who've dined early, and are up to the ice cream, here's a little tune: Rocky Road
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Kosh's Shadow
11/28/2019 2:14:30 PM
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Just eating now.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/28/2019 3:54:17 PM
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Thanksgiving The autumn harvest festivals, alas, are obsolete, For living in the city, we don't grow the foods we eat. No evidence of seasonal changes is there to be found, When supermarkets stock the same foods all the year around--- And little of the seasons' passing show is evident From leafless trees in iron grates embedded in cement. But though the beat of life has changed, we cannot obviate The need to mark time's passage, and the urge to celebrate--- And if, through stone and asphalt, Nature's seasons scarcely show, We'll greet each one consistent with the urban life we know, And gorge ourselves on turkey, mashed potatoes, and ice cream, To give thanks for that wondrous day the landlord sends up steam.
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Kosh's Shadow
11/28/2019 4:58:52 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 19: For years, I had said Popeye is associated with two vegetables. Spinach, of course, And yams - I yam what I yam
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