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Favorite Thanksgiving tradition?

crowded airports	0 votes - 0 %
getting bumped and getting free flights	0 votes - 0 %
busy traveling	0 votes - 0 %
turkey	0 votes - 0 %
stuffing	1 vote - 8 %
smallpox	0 votes - 0 %
sending the Puritans to the colonies	1 vote - 8 %
celebrating it a month before the Americans	2 votes - 16 %
burnt sweet potato pie	1 vote - 8 %
Beaujolais Noveau	2 votes - 16 %
Macy's parade	0 votes - 0 %
hunting camp	0 votes - 0 %
Wednesday night drinking with high school friends	0 votes - 0 %
black Friday	0 votes - 0 %
Dallas or Detroit	2 votes - 16 %
cranberry sauce	1 vote - 8 %
green bean casserole	0 votes - 0 %
putting up Christmas decorations	0 votes - 0 %
WIPO	2 votes - 16 %

12 Total Votes

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Overly socialized by jimgon (2.00 / 0) #1 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 12:32:11 PM EST

I get that too. Kids and wife and family. I can't remember the last time I felt I could slip off to the X-Box.

You need to train your family better by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #4 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 01:45:24 PM EST

I've spend ~60 hours over the past several weeks playing FFXII - the best part is my son sitting next to me, providing a running color commentary. Occasionally, between the two of us we get full blown MST3k action going.

Best part so far: arguing whether the monster that just killed me was properly called a "poodile" or a "crocadoodle".

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It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
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Mainly it's the wife by jimgon (2.00 / 0) #32 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 08:01:48 AM EST

That and the ten year old hasn't figured out that she has better hand-eye coordination than I do, and can smoke me at any shooter game once she figures it out. Once that happens I'll have a video game pal.

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: Heh. I could tell you stories. by ObviousTroll (4.00 / 1) #34 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 08:25:23 AM EST

There aren't many contexts where I'd let my son say "Dad, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!?!" and let him get away with it, but since he was pretty much carrying me in the last team game we played....

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It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
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frozen peas in the groin ? by sasquatchan (4.00 / 1) #2 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 01:08:38 PM EST

meaning a vasectomy, or that the job was going to be such a PITA, you'd rather get punched in the nuts than do it again ?

: a snip job by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #3 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 01:14:26 PM EST

five year old was then six month old, and we decided two was enough.

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WIPO: Pie. by ObviousTroll (4.00 / 1) #5 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 02:04:34 PM EST

Apple pie. Pumpkin pie. Pecan pie.

What kind of furiner are you, to forget the pie!?!

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It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

What's wrong with burnt sweet potato pie? by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #6 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 02:07:11 PM EST

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I wouldn't know. by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #21 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 06:42:01 AM EST

I've never had any.

In the Troll extended family, "sweet potatos" are merely what happens when your potatos fall in the kool aid.

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It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
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It's like pumpkin pie by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #22 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 06:43:22 AM EST

but spicier and more interesting.

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Ah. Well then. That explains it. by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #24 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 06:51:56 AM EST

I'll have to get some potatos and kool aid and try making some.

Does this recipe sound right?

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It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
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It's fancier than mine, but looks delicious by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #26 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 07:13:17 AM EST

I use canned milk instead of yogurt, and no pecans.

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: I'll have to take a crack at it. by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #29 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 07:37:52 AM EST

I don't think I'm up for making tons of cookies this year, so a couple of pies might do the trick instead.

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It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
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: (Comment Deleted) by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #30 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 07:37:53 AM EST

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who's a commie? by alprazolam (2.00 / 0) #7 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 03:10:17 PM EST

what kinda weirdo eats apple pie at thanksgiving? apples should go into apple sauce, apple cider, hell even apple crisp any time post september.

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Not just that by sasquatchan (2.00 / 0) #9 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 03:34:42 PM EST

but the heathens that put cheese on their apple pie should be put away in camps, I tell you.

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that's just sick by alprazolam (4.00 / 1) #13 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 05:38:50 PM EST

i'm going to have to pretend i didn't read that.

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: I'm sick of your intolerance by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #14 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 06:38:29 PM EST

of lactose.

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apple pie by aphrael (4.00 / 1) #10 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 03:35:25 PM EST

is the closest thing we get to normal food at my family's thanksgiving dinner.

this year:

* turkey mole
* pork loin, pounded and rolled, stuffed with chorizo and a spicy bread stuffing, doused with a chipotle-red-wine sauce
* spicy corn succotash
* potatoes au gratin
* sweet potatoes, sliced and baked, covered in raisins, nuts, and christmas cookie spices
* green bean / cheese casserole

* pumpkin cheesecake
* lemon tart covered in strawberries
* spice cake
* apple pie

If television is a babysitter, the internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
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Whoa. by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #23 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 06:44:31 AM EST

I'm comin' to your house next year.

Except I'm not too sure about turkey moles. I mean, I thought moles were little guys. How many of them do you need to feed an extended family of 8-12 people?

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It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
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: my uncle by aphrael (2.00 / 0) #35 Fri Dec 01, 2006 at 03:45:50 PM EST

is a very good highly eccentric cook.

If television is a babysitter, the internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
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Oh, piff. by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #20 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 06:38:43 AM EST

Thanksgiving is the perfect time for apple pie. You northerners with your strange weather just don't know it.

Now, peach pie - that's a summer-only treat.

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It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
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I saw this Magazine by hulver (2.00 / 0) #8 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 03:29:04 PM EST

http://www.radiotimes.com/content/magflash/

And I thought of you.

Mmmm. Women with curves.
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smart, pretty, sane. pick two - georgeha

: Dayumm, I miss her show by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #11 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 03:41:44 PM EST

it rarely gets played anymore. Umm, Nigella.

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sending the Puritans to the colonies by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #12 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 04:16:48 PM EST

Oh, sure. Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it?

But what are you going to do when those Puritans decide it's time to spread Peace, Love, and Democracy across the world at the point of a bayonet?

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}

: I think you infect them with the gh3y. [nt] by debacle (2.00 / 0) #18 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 11:32:18 PM EST

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

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I tried to join in, I really did. by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #15 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 07:14:30 PM EST

I went to the Asian family across the road and told them I was to stupid to fend for myself and I'd sailed to the edge of the known world with no idea where the next meal was coming from, and here I was, ready to give them smallpox and everything if they'd just stuff me with turkey, grits and pumpkin, but they said I'd got the wrong type of Indian. Well, who knew?

Did you offer them iron knives and beads and glass by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #28 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 07:29:53 AM EST

baubles?

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: Will do next year. by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #31 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 07:41:26 AM EST

Can I just give them an IKEA catalogue instead? It's just down the road.
Also, where shall I get the smallpox from? I know the last case of it was local to me, but apparently they've destroyed their stocks since then.

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remind me to never eat peas in the Ha Household. by dev trash (2.00 / 0) #16 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 08:12:47 PM EST

Cable TV was inveted in PA. What a great state.

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Blizzard of Death '06

You know by debacle (2.00 / 0) #17 Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 11:31:06 PM EST

There's about four pounds of green bean casserole in my mother's fridge at this very moment.

There were a lot of accidents Friday morning because of that fog. I'm surprized it wasn't on the news. I couldn't even see Canada.

Why are you grassing over the veggie garden?

You need to name your children. Up until now I didn't get the connection between nine year old and ten year old.

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

Unless it meets to our stereotypes about Buffalo by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #19 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 06:33:23 AM EST

you know, snow, the Bills, or the local governments not buying toilet paper, we don't hear it.

I don't have time for a proper veggie garden, so half of it is getting grassed.

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Strangely by debacle (2.00 / 0) #25 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 07:10:22 AM EST

We almost never hear about you guys, either. I'd never thought of that before - we hear more about Toronto than we go Rochester.

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

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: Other than the occasional serial killer by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #33 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 08:12:45 AM EST

Rochester is pretty boring.

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you have stereotypes about buffalo? by aphrael (2.00 / 0) #36 Fri Dec 01, 2006 at 03:47:50 PM EST

out here, nobody even knows it exists.

If television is a babysitter, the internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
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Billie Piper by MrPlough (2.00 / 0) #27 Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 07:27:04 AM EST

I agree.
No work.

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