im not a PC im an apple.. lol

-----Original Message-----
>From: joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET>
>Sent: Nov 28, 2008 10:41 AM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Being PC on The List (kinda long and stoopid). :)
>
>> Is it just me, or what?
>
>it's you, john ... it's just you. ;)
>
>> It seems extraordinary to me, but I don't recall seeing a single
>> Thanksgiving Holiday Greeting come across this list in celebration
>> of
>> this special holiday just past. Am I wrong, or did I just miss
>> something? Have we turned a corner somewhere that I didn't see and
>> become so politically correct about our List that simple civil
>> salutations best wishes on Holidays are no longer expressed? It is
>> disturbing to think this is happening. If this is true, it becomes
>> even
>> more disturbing because such events lead to more curtailment of
>> expression.
>
>i kinda think that, since turkey day is primarily an american
>occassion, and mostly a family type get-together,
>and since we all still have Bob Donald's passing still fresh in our
>minds, that maybe a very large portion of
>the list was busy with family stuff for the holiday. it's not a case
>of 'forgetting' the list, but more of thinking
>a bit more locally to each list member. especially if you're not an
>american. :)
>
>i know i was kinda busy with such stuff, and had another local passing
>of someone i'd known for nearly 40 years
>to deal with. and you kinda drift off into that activity, instead of
>hanging around the computer. especially if you
>have to get up and get dressed and go here and there to two or more
>different gatherings, with kids and grandkids,
>and a 3 year old freezer than decided to die on the day it was needed
>most for leftovers (and nobody will come out
>to even look at it til tomorrow).  and i expect a lot of the rest of
>the list was similarly involved, or perhaps just
>being reflective at this time of year.
>
>when i worked for united airlines, i was surprised at first to find
>out that thanksgiving was THE busiest time of year
>for the airlines ..more people flew home for turkey than they did for
>the christmas holidays ... which i thought was
>rather strange. but turkey day is extended family getting together,
>christmas is kinda more local. i guess. still seems odd
>to me.
>
>plus the weather isn't really nice in some places, so working on the
>vanagon can't be used as an excuse to get out of
>preparing turkey and sweet potato pie and green bean casserole and
>cornbread stuffing and honey-cured ham and cranberry sauce and putting
>all the photos and dvds and other-things breakable up high so the
>ruggratts can't get at them, and so forth. ;)
>
>so! in returning to our usual van-foolery and folderol, i present a
>repeat from Turkey Days past. :)
>
>        Manifold Destiny
>        by Tanks Givens
>
>  Why, I recall, 'twas just last year,
>  Around Thanksgiving time,
>  I went to see my buddy Joe,
>  And rang his doorbell chime.
>
>  His wife came to the door and said,
>  "He ain't at home right now.
>  He's out a'driving on the road
>  In that Vee-Dub bus, The Cow."
>
>  So I took myself and headed home,
>  Along the coastal road,
>  When who'd I see, but that old Joe,
>  On the shoulder where he'd whoa'd!
>
>  Old Joe was back behind the bus,
>  A'poking round the rear,
>  He had that engine hatch propped up
>  And was pouring something clear.
>
>  I stopped in front and walked on back
>  To see if he was broke,
>  But he had close the engine hatch
>  And was sipping on a Coke.
>
>  He said he couldn't stop to talk,
>  Important was his quest,
>  With miles to go before he quits
>  For dinner and a rest.
>
>  He pulled out in the traffic lanes
>  And hurried up to speed,
>  I tagged along behind his bus ...
>  Some help he might yet need.
>
>  In about ten miles, he stopped again,
>  And behind the bus he'd go,
>  Where he pulled that same old pouring stunt,
>  On what, I didn't know.
>
>  Then off he'd roar, back on the road
>  For another ten miles more,
>  Where he would stop and run around
>  Behind the bus to pour.
>
>  He kept this up back to the house,
>  Where he called out to his wife,
>  Who came on out and walked right back
>  To the engine with a knife!
>
>  She poked inside, then poked some more,
>  And then she said, "I'll bet
>  You need once more around the block ...
>  The turkey ain't done yet."   :)
>
>  <Manifold Destiny is the name of a cookbook, about using your car's
>exhaust
>  system to cook meals while you drive. really. check it out>
>
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