And a Happy Turkey Day to you too Unca Joel!  :-)

Thanks, Jake

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:41 AM, joel walker <uncajoel@bellsouth.net>wrote:

> 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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Jake
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