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    Quote Originally Posted by Ravens Fan View Post
    Weren't you lazy last year too? Slacker!
    yeap.....one of the few advantages of getting old....Cooking huge meals for large numbers is hard work! I just look old & pitiful and hope someone invites to their house now!
    Through all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh we just would go insane. - Jimmy Buffett

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    Quote Originally Posted by PolWatch View Post
    yeap.....one of the few advantages of getting old....Cooking huge meals for large numbers is hard work! I just look old & pitiful and hope someone invites to their house now!
    you are more than welcome at my house, but its awful cold up here already...

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    Every year I tell my wife, it's just us now - relax...but she insists on doing a turkey with all the usual side dishes. Actually, my son is home from college now, so he'll be eating with us, too, but I know he'd be just as happy doing pizza (as I would) or buying a Honeybaked ham, like we do for Christmas. With my wife, I guess it's just a tradition thing - her mother was very traditional and I guess really drummed that into her, at least when it comes to the Holidays and what you're "supposed" to do for them.

    One of my best and most memorable Thanksgivings was 1988. I was single, living with my two cats, in an apartment in suburban L.A., and I'd gotten no invites from anyone that I cared to spend the day with. I went out to see if there was a diner or something open. (I think I had this picture in my head of eating a lonely restaurant Thanksgiving meal and meeting a cute waitress or something, like a scene out of a bad Tom Hanks movie.) I happened to drive by a KFC that was open and decided that would do. Went through the drive-through and got a box of chicken, took it home, spread out newspapers on the tile floor, and the two cats and I ate till it was gone. No work, no frills, no drama, and then everybody took a nap.

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    My grandmother cooks every year, and she does not play around. We always have the fattest turkey, yams with marshmallows on top, mounds of mashed potatoes, fried okra, gravy, cranberry sauce, green beans, corn...we're a family of seven in a three bedroom house, so we go through a lot of food

    While she cooks, I'll be watching the a probably boring game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Detroit Lions, then I'll watch the Green Bay Packers tear the Chicago Bears a new $#@! (I hope), and then after dinner it's the undefeated Carolina Panthers versus the flailing Dallas Cowgirls in their god-awful Color Rush uniforms.

    After that, I fall into a food coma after a few shots of whiskey and Five Finger Death Punch while reflecting on how much I love my life.

    Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday
    "Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least."
    - Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926), five-time Socialist Party candidate for U.S. President

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