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Post by spotless38 on Nov 23, 2011 11:54:17 GMT -6
To all on the Forum I want to wish all a Happy Thanksgiving to all and their loved ones . Just remember what we are thankful for . Especially for our freedom Ron ( spotless)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2011 14:51:59 GMT -6
I second that Ron and wish blessings to each and everyone this Thanksgiving..There is always something to be thankful for. I'm thankful for family, a roof over our heads, food enough to share, friends I've met here and that I am allowed to think and speak as I will. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE
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Post by auntym on Nov 23, 2011 16:38:42 GMT -6
Thanksgiving in Space for New ISS Commander [/color]
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Aboard the International Space Station, the new Commander of the complex, NASA's Dan Burbank, discuss the start of his four months on the orbital laboratory, and how he and his crewmates are spending Thanksgiving in an in-flight interview November 23, 2011 with reporters from CBS News.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2011 20:53:02 GMT -6
Happy Thanksgiving to all !!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2011 21:04:36 GMT -6
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
And please be kind to the store associates if you go shopping on Black Friday. I'm getting a migraine just thinking about it and what is to come... and I am not the only one... lol...
A lot of people don't know this, but store associates actually have gotten trampled to death in certain stores in large cities because of frenzied customers wanting to save a couple hundred bucks on a new TV set. People actually DIE on Black Friday because of this madness.
Be careful out there if you are one of the many bargain hunters. It's not worth someone's life, it really isn't. Please try to remember that...
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Nov 23, 2011 23:12:13 GMT -6
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
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Post by paulette on Nov 24, 2011 0:57:27 GMT -6
Awww...We have Thanksgiving on October 10th here (in Canada). Which is OK - it spreads out the feasting from the one month Nov 25 to Dec 25 binge. But every November at this time I wish I could be sitting down to an American Thanksgiving: turkey (of course) candied yams, whipped potatoes, dressing, obligatory brussel sprouts and of course the varied pies. We do that too but somehow the yams get left out and are replaced by turnip or something like that. And there are butter tarts and mincemeat tarts aplenty here in the north but alas no pecan pie. I mean real pecan pie full of pecans not just a few scattered on top. I hope somebody here ate some version of this.
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Post by Steve on Nov 24, 2011 3:18:38 GMT -6
Awww...We have Thanksgiving on October 10th here (in Canada). Which is OK - it spreads out the feasting from the one month Nov 25 to Dec 25 binge. But every November at this time I wish I could be sitting down to an American Thanksgiving: turkey (of course) candied yams, whipped potatoes, dressing, obligatory brussel sprouts and of course the varied pies. We do that too but somehow the yams get left out and are replaced by turnip or something like that. And there are butter tarts and mincemeat tarts aplenty here in the north but alas no pecan pie. I mean real pecan pie full of pecans not just a few scattered on top. I hope somebody here ate some version of this. Obligatory brussel sprouts? What about the obligatory turkey? Are you one of........ them? You know...a um...a veger? Whipped potatoes? I always used to say mashed potatoes. Alas, saying whipped sounds so much nicer. I need to come up a notch or two. ;D Steve
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Post by auntym on Nov 24, 2011 11:52:03 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2011 11:55:31 GMT -6
Oh Paulette... I miss my grandmother's pecan pie!!! She passed away when i was 19... I'm never going to have one nearly as good. We usually do pecan pie on Christmas though... in my house we do pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving. (I usually make it because of my strong aversion to nutmeg... I make it with extra cinnamon instead... ;D)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2011 20:39:04 GMT -6
Sure hope you all are having a great day!
I always thought it was "whipped" potatoes only if they were instant.....Lol ;D
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Post by skywalker on Nov 25, 2011 19:05:24 GMT -6
Did anybody eat until they exploded?
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Post by paulette on Nov 26, 2011 0:30:37 GMT -6
Turkey is a given for me Steve. I'm an eater of flesh. No Tofurkey for me. I like my potatoes in fluffy light piles - think Close Encounters of the Third Kind - when he's sculpting the mountain out of his dinner.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2011 10:45:38 GMT -6
Turkey is a given for me Steve. I'm an eater of flesh. No Tofurkey for me. I like my potatoes in fluffy light piles - think Close Encounters of the Third Kind - when he's sculpting the mountain out of his dinner. ;D
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Post by casper on Nov 26, 2011 18:44:44 GMT -6
I hope everybody had a happy Thanksgiving. I'm sorry I missed being here. My computer got a nasty virus and was going haywire. It wouldn't even let me on the forum! Stupid virus! Skywalker just fixed it for me so I can get back on now. My smiley faces are working again too! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2011 18:59:53 GMT -6
Turkey, wild rice sausage stuffing, cranberry sauce, ham..whipped/mashed potatoes, yams, corn, macaroni and cheese, 2 pumpkin..a cranberry/cherry pie and a cappuccino caramel cheese cake and absolutely NO brussel sprouts ;D This year our neighbor joined us..he brought the turkey Now Christmas..that's always prime rib I have made the same exact dinner for 37 years except that this year I added the cheesecake because I wanted to try it and the cranberry/cherry pie (usually it's apple) My favorites are mincemeat and pecan but no one else would eat them so I don't make them Funny..over the years the people have changed the meal hasn't..dang..I am in a rut LOL
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Post by ufo4peace on Nov 27, 2011 5:28:46 GMT -6
I ate turkey in red mole sauce. I went to do my laundry at noon and there was one poor guy in there smelling of alcohol and weed looking sad.
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Post by lois on Nov 28, 2011 23:38:14 GMT -6
ufo 4 peace. that is terrible. not the food I mean the poor guy. The food I have never hear of it. I did not come on here before thanks giving.
Jo, I have fixed the same thing for years also.. My daughter loves pecan pie. It is too much sugar for me. I never eat it. Although I love pecans. We had three trees of pecan trees in Mo. Boy . I sure miss them now.
I hope everyone did have nice Thanksgiving. My husband's cousin came over for dinner. Our Children did their own this year. We stayed home here in Illinois this year. Maybe Christmas we will go down.
People some times sleep a nap afterwards and I could never figure it out. It would make me sick. I could not go out and walk as it was too cold. I sat at the computer and my husband cleaned the kitchen. Which was a once a year deal for me. lol
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Post by ufo4peace on Nov 30, 2011 19:38:21 GMT -6
I live in a Latino area so eating that was something different. They don't speak english so it's a crapshoot sometimes. ;D
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Post by skywalker on Nov 8, 2012 19:11:56 GMT -6
Does anybody have plans for Thanksgiving this year? I'll probably be at work as usual.
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Post by lois on Nov 21, 2012 12:11:32 GMT -6
My Pumpkin Bread is done.. My apple pie is done. My Cole Slaw is done .. My Cranberry salad is done. I hate cooking all day on THANKS GIVING.. ;D Would be nice to have everyone of you over. We are not spending time with our Children. Saving that long trip for Christmas. Have a wonderful day!!
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Post by auntym on Nov 21, 2012 13:15:48 GMT -6
The Muppets Swedish Chef on Thanksgiving [/color]
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Post by paulette on Nov 21, 2012 14:32:52 GMT -6
Wow! For a moment there I thought the Swedish chef was going X rated.
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Post by auntym on Nov 21, 2012 14:38:20 GMT -6
www.history.com/news/the-real-story-behind-plymouth-rock?cmpid=Social_Twitter_Hith_11212012_1November 21, 2012 The Real Story Behind Plymouth Rock[/color] By Christopher Klein Even though its historical provenance is dubious, Plymouth Rock has had a tumultuous history all its own. After emerging as a colonial symbol of liberty, the stone has been moved from place to place, split it two and whittled away at by souvenir hunters. Still, the Pilgrims' purported landing place endures. As America celebrates Thanksgiving, explore the real history of Plymouth Rock. mjbs/iStockphoto.com Two words inevitably cross the lips of first-time visitors to Plymouth Rock: “That’s it?” Yes, Plymouth Rock never fails to underwhelm, leaving tourists struck by disappointment rather than awe. But don’t blame the rock. America’s most famous piece of granite is simply a victim of outsized expectations. The overhyped legend surrounding the Pilgrims’ supposed landing place conjures visions of the Rock of Gibraltar. The reality, however, is that the country’s birthstone is a mere boulder. And then there’s the inconvenient truth that no historical evidence exists to confirm Plymouth Rock as the Pilgrims’ steppingstone to the New World. Leaving aside the fact that the Pilgrims first made landfall on the tip of Cape Cod in November 1620 before sailing to safer harbors in Plymouth the following month, William Bradford and his fellow Mayflower passengers made no written references to setting foot on a rock as they disembarked to start their settlement on a new continent. It wasn’t until 1741—121 years after the arrival of the Mayflower—that a 10-ton boulder in Plymouth Harbor was identified as the precise spot where Pilgrim feet first trod. The claim was made by 94-year-old Thomas Faunce, a church elder who said his father, who arrived in Plymouth in 1623, and several of the original Mayflower passengers assured him the stone was the specific landing spot. When the elderly Faunce heard that a wharf was to be built over the rock, he wanted a final glimpse. He was conveyed by chair 3 miles from his house to the harbor, where he reportedly gave Plymouth Rock a tearful goodbye. Whether Faunce’s assertion was accurate oral history or the figment of a doddering old mind, we don’t know. (And if Faunce indeed was telling a tall tale about the humble chunk of granite, he broke the cardinal rule of American mythology: When you make stuff up, go big—really big.) What is certain, however, is that diminutive Plymouth Rock quickly grew into a prodigious American icon, and the boulder and the country it symbolizes have led eerily parallel lives over the past 250 years. Much like the United States itself, Plymouth Rock came of age in a burst of patriotic fervor. It was split in two and cemented back together. And while it has been battered by time, it continues to endure. CONTINUE READING: www.history.com/news/the-real-story-behind-plymouth-rock?cmpid=Social_Twitter_Hith_11212012_1
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Post by auntym on Nov 21, 2012 14:39:06 GMT -6
Wow! For a moment there I thought the Swedish chef was going X rated. ;D
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Post by charles on Nov 21, 2012 16:38:43 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2012 18:16:43 GMT -6
Enjoy your day with family, friends, and good food everyone .
Happy Thanksgiving !
Cliff & Kelly
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Post by auntym on Nov 21, 2012 19:10:55 GMT -6
THE NIGHT OF THANKSGIVINGTWAS THE NIGHT OF THANKSGIVING, BUT I JUST COULDN'T SLEEP. I TRIED COUNTING BACKWARDS, I TRIED COUNTING SHEEP. THE LEFTOVERS BECKONED - THE DARK MEAT AND WHITE, BUT I FOUGHT THE TEMPTATION WITH ALL OF MY MIGHT. TOSSING AND TURNING WITH ANTICIPATION, THE THOUGHT OF A SNACK BECAME INFATUATION. SO, I RACED TO THE KITCHEN, FLUNG OPEN THE DOOR, AND GAZED AT THE FRIDGE, FULL OF GOODIES GALORE. GOBBLED UP TURKEY AND BUTTERED POTATOES, PICKLES AND CARROTS, BEANS AND TOMATOES. I FELT MYSELF SWELLING SO PLUMP AND SO ROUND, 'TIL ALL OF A SUDDEN, I ROSE OFF THE GROUND. I CRASHED THROUGH THE CEILING, FLOATING INTO THE SKY, WITH A MOUTHFUL OF PUDDING AND A HANDFUL OF PIE. BUT, I MANAGED TO YELL AS I SOARED PAST THE TREES.... HAPPY EATING TO ALL - PASS THE CRANBERRIES, PLEASE. MAY YOUR STUFFING BE TASTY, MAY YOUR TURKEY BE PLUMP. MAY YOUR POTATOES 'N GRAVY HAVE NARY A LUMP. MAY YOUR YAMS BE DELICIOUS. MAY YOUR PIES TAKE THE PRIZE, MAY YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER STAY OFF OF YOUR THIGHS!! HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL author: UNKNOWN
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2012 21:37:20 GMT -6
Beuatiful poem Aunty... ;D
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2012 0:32:02 GMT -6
Wishing the most wonderful Thanksgiving EVER to all of my TEOR friends. I'm thankful for all of you
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