Thanksgiving traditions

[Butter]

So, do you have any? I simply MUST have my wife's grandma's dressing and leftover macaroni and cheese from a Ziploc bag. (Don't ask)

Not to mention watching as much football as is physically possible.

[mckerney]

This year I get to work from 9 to 3 Thursday. Yippie.

[Joe]

mmmmm ziploc

[rkmsuf]

Playing hide the feces and having a breakdancing contest.

[Butter]

Playing hide the feces and having a breakdancing contest.

Yes, but do you use the "Breakin' 2:Electric Boogaloo" scoring system?

[VPI97]

Getting into an arguement with my mother-in-law

[rkmsuf]

My cousin Kendall got drunk and broke his arm last year

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[Radii]

leftover macaroni and cheese from a Ziploc bag.


Not a thanksgiving thing, but I used to love to do this with my mom's macaroni and cheese as well.

[Flasch186]

My entire Jewish family speaks very loudly and ends up arguing with Grandpa. Last year my brother dropped a fork on his recent girlfriends head, while clearing the table. While that wasn't particularly funny, her reaction was. Our family is pretty unpretentious and even moreso not formal....well, she flipped out as if she had just seen a cockroach on a plate. Got up in a huff, and walked to the bathroom to "clean up". That my friends was comedy.

[Dutch]

My thanksgiving thing is (for whatever reason) to pay more attention to the Lions game than the Cowboys game. My wife (a Cowboys fan) sees things differently....

My great aunt in Massachussetts passes down a killer recipe for cranberry nut bread that only my wife, my mom, grandmother, and aunt know. It's kind of cool since we all like it and aren't allowed to make it.

Then, after a loaf of it, we start talking loudly with each other and getting in fights with grandpa and throwing forks at my brothers girlfriends.....

oh wait, that last paragraph was a post-jack. :)

[KWhit]

I usually end up going to the movies on Thanksgiving day after dinner.

[fantastic flying froggies]

No Thanksgiving here. No traditions...

[Ben E Lou]

I usually enjoy sending copies of this to my liberal ACLU-lovin' friends. ;)


Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day

October 3, 1863


The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.

A. Lincoln

[Franklinnoble]

Awesome. Thanks, Ben.

[TLK]

starting a new tradition this year... paying an asinine amount of money, for me and my fater, to see my Lions lose at Ford Field. I hope everyone has a Happy (and safe) Thanksgiving.....

[Eaglesfan27]

My favorite tradition in the past was eating a piece of my Grandmother's pumpkin pie after dinner. She made the pie from scratch. It was absolutely amazing. The whole family thought she could have made massive amounts of money sellling it, but she only made 2 or 3 for the family. Also, she only made them from Thanksgiving. She stopped making them about 11 years ago when she became ill (she passed away 2 years later.) I still have had a piece of pumpkin pie ever year for Thanksgiving, but none compare. Ms. Eaglesfan has been making me a pie following the directions on the recipe that my GM gave me for the past 6 years, but it doesn't quite taste the same. I miss my grandmother :(

[gstelmack]

starting a new tradition this year... paying an asinine amount of money, for me and my fater, to see my Lions lose at Ford Field. I hope everyone has a Happy (and safe) Thanksgiving.....
This reads so much funnier if I assume you dropped an "r" instead of an "h" http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[B & B]

Lions +370 on the ML.

[Desnudo]

My favorite tradition in the past was eating a piece of my Grandmother's pumpkin pie after dinner. She made the pie from scratch. It was absolutely amazing. The whole family thought she could have made massive amounts of money sellling it, but she only made 2 or 3 for the family. Also, she only made them from Thanksgiving. She stopped making them about 11 years ago when she became ill (she passed away 2 years later.) I still have had a piece of pumpkin pie ever year for Thanksgiving, but none compare. Ms. Eaglesfan has been making me a pie following the directions on the recipe that my GM gave me for the past 6 years, but it doesn't quite taste the same. I miss my grandmother :(

Recipe pls thx.

[rkmsuf]

pics pls thx.

You dog, you.

[gottimd]

We shoot H and then rape the turkey.....oh wait...I just realized the thread was Traditions, I thought it was secrets. Well in that case.....

[Dutch]

A. Lincoln

Another faith-based Republican whack job... :)