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Livin' the dream

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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Joseph Fortino <fortino1@earthlink.net>wrote:

> 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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> Have a nice Day :)
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