It’s Thanksgiving in the United States!
To all our American readers, to those in the United States who will spend the extended weekend with family and friends; To those abroad in the service who are away from loved ones and perhaps in the most dangerous of situations; and especially to those in Bahrain and the rest of the Gulf;
May you have much to be thankful for, and much to look forward to!
And a Happy Birthday to Amna Mahmood Al-Yousif!
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Happy Turkey Day!
Happy Birthday To Amna! Pass on my well wishes….Its been snowing across most parts of the US & Canada today! Just
Wanted to share with you all a thankgiving letter from Martha Stewart….
Dear Friends,
As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, I want to extend my deepest thanks and appreciation for the steadfast support I continue to receive from so many of you. I am told this web page has logged nearly 8 million hits since I began serving my sentence last month, and that supporters have sent more than 15,000 emails. I have also received thousands of letters. I cherish them all.
While I can’t answer each note personally, I want you to know that I am well. As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult. But I am safe, fit and healthy, and I am pleased to report that, contrary to rumors you might have heard, my daily interactions with the staff and fellow inmates here at Alderson are marked by fair treatment and mutual respect.
In short, I am in good spirits and making the best of this difficult situation. Visits from my friends, family and colleagues – together with your goodwill and best wishes — will get me through this chapter in my life. For this friendship and support, I am very grateful this Thanksgiving.
Sincerely,
Martha Stewart
[Modified by: abayb2c (abayb2c) on November 24, 2004 07:28 PM]
Adopt a turkey this Thanksgiving holiday!
The whole bird thing is hard for me sometimes … my husband is strict vegetarian. So let’s all be thankful and maybe even save a turkey or two!
http://www.AdoptaTurkey.org
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And a happy b’day to you Amna!! 15 is a great age!
Happy Turkey Day!
Well said, Brother DIB. I like to think of it as Thanksgiving not just in America, but everywhere. I read where the purchase of turkeys this last week has skyrocketed in England, where the Brits have apparently taken to the idea of Thanksgiving. We don’t mind the Brits running off with our holiday. There’s plenty of Thanksgiving to go around. Take it and take a turkey leg with ya.
Here in Washington, DC, it’s a misty wet overcast day. Many people here started celebrating the holiday by smashing into each other on the freeways. Poor Steve is waiting around for the Big Bosses to free us wage slaves, giving the traditional clearance to cut out of work early. Tick, tock, buddy. I don’t get any readier to leave than this.
Most stores will be closed tomorrow, one of the few days that happens. Then Friday morning, the official start of the Christmas seasons begins like a mighty avalanche. Stores are opening at 4 AM with big sales and there are shoppers insane enough to be there, waiting. I won’t be one of them. I’ll be sitting out the traffic jams at home, muching on leftover turkey and dressing. I love the dressing.
Steve
Re: Adopt a turkey this Thanksgiving holiday!
The turkeys should thank us for giving them life. If not for Thanksgiving, they would never know life. And really, hanging out in a big barn full of turkeys with all the water you can drink and feed you can eat is like a turkey’s dream. Heck, a big turkey farm like that is like one big Turkey Disco. It sure beats living a turkey’s life in the wild, always on the run, only to end up torn to bits by a fox or some other predator.
It’s not like these turkeys are smart enough to live on their own either. They are the dumbest creatures on earth. If it rains, they will look up and drown on the raindrops that fall down their throats.
There were turkey farms near the bombing range we practiced on in the Air Force. The sudden sound of the jet engines, even at medium altitude, would scare the turkeys so bad that some would drop dead of heart attacks. The turkey farmers complained. Some even shot at us. But the United States Air Force will not be defeated from our mission by a bunch of damned turkeys. We would shift into afterburner as we passed overhead the hostile turkeys below with the shout:
Death To The Turkeys!
Steve
Re: Happy Turkey Day!
Well, we have captured Martha. Now we only have Osama left. I’m wondering if we put Osama and Martha in the same cell and they had a fight, who would win?
My money is on Martha.
Steve
Happy Turkey Day!
Happy Turkey Day indeed to all of our American friends. Our turkey sadly is STILL in the freezer awaiting consumption at Christmas, this household being Scottish more than anything else as far as turkey-celebrations are concerned1
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Martha could whip up a make-shift weapon out of a hair net and cardboard….and it could later double as a cleaning utensil. She’d kick his ass.
Happy Turkey Day!
Happy Thanksgiving to all! My Palestinian family raises some turkeys and we shall be having Turkey Muchboos and Couscous here in Doha! It’s their way of making me feel at home and I love them for it 🙂
Wallah I swear I have soooooo much to be thankful for!
Salaam,
PM
Happy Turkey Day!
I’m fixing a turkey for the family lunch at the in-laws. It will be an American Thanksgiving with an Arabic twist. (which means that the turkey will be served with a side of hummus and basmati rice…with halwa and coffee for dessert.)
The Parrot & The Turkey
So Bob buys this used parrot at the pet store but when he gets it home he realizes it has learned a vast vocabulary of abuse from its former owner. Whenever Bob comes home, the parrot greets him with a curse: “Hello, $#@! Why don’t you go $&*# you dumb *&^%!” Bob tries to teach the parrot how to talk politely but the bird just says, “*#%$ that noise and *+=#% you!” Bob buys a CD to repeat polite words over and over all day in the hopes the parrot will pick it up but when he gets home the parrot says, “Why don’t you take that %$@# CD and %%#@$, you *$&%!”
That was it for Bob who grabbed the bird in a fit of rage and threw him in the freezer to shut him up and teach him a lesson. The parrot fought and cursed all the way. Bob could hear the parrot struggling and cursing in the freezer until suddenly it stopped. After a minute, there was a tapping on the freezer door. Curious, Bob let the parrot out.
“Pardon me,” said the parrot, “but I suddenly realized that my actions of late since your kind purchase of me have been inexcusably impolite. Can you ever forgive me for offending you now that I offer this, my heartfelt apology?” Bob, taken aback, accepted with pleasure. “By the way,” inquired the parrot, “what did the turkey do?”
Steve