Pass the Gravy

Thursday, November 28, 2024

When the country was riven in half by the Civil War in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November where we could gather and express thankfulness. Eight score and one year later, enjoy the football and the feast of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, cornbread, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. And don't skimp on the gravy. Try to keep that one uncle distracted so he doesn't talk politics.

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Okay, so, Thanksgiving. It's a tricky one for the Pagans, right? Because Christmas? Sure, they can come up with some alternative solstice celebration involving, like, mistletoe and woodland creatures. But Thanksgiving? That's a tough nut to crack. Half of them are walking around saying, "What do I have to be thankful for? My crops failed, my love life's a mess, and my goat ate my lucky amulet." And the other half are going, "Thank who? Exactly? The Great Pumpkin? I don't think so."

#1 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-11-28 09:49 AM | Reply

I try to remember to thank Wavy Gravy for all he did for American youth.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-28 10:11 AM | Reply

Came here to wish all Happy Holidays and then I'll go back to my hotmail account and delete all the Black Friday ads.
Potluck later this afternoon at a football free home. Not very American of us.

#3 | Posted by mattm at 2024-11-28 10:11 AM | Reply

Christmas is easy for pagans because it is one-third original pagan, one-third godless consumerism and one-third Christian. They can enjoy 66 percent.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Food, family and football!

#4 | Posted by rcade at 2024-11-28 10:12 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Happy Thanksgiving!

Score!
Picked up this great gravy boat at a yard sale for just 50!
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#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-11-28 10:23 AM | Reply | Funny: 4

Special Thankgiving to you, Lee, hope you have wonderful Holiday!

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-11-28 10:24 AM | Reply

Happy Thanksgiving..

Onenut, that's a pee bottle you crazy chink.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-11-28 10:26 AM | Reply

Potluck later this afternoon at a football free home. Not very American of us.

#3 | Posted by mattm

"football free home"....

Hmmmmm....probably followed by a meeting of you commies...

:) :)

#8 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-28 10:56 AM | Reply

Lions football at 9:30am (PST) and then Thanksgiving dinner for five at one of our son's restaurants (or at least one the 25 or so that he's responsible for as the corporate brand executive) at 2:00pm.

OCU

#9 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-11-28 10:57 AM | Reply

HOLY COW....

TOMMY DEVITO VERSUS COOPER RUSH

---late game after multiple plates of tryptophan and the dark chocolate pecan pie....

and a brew....or two....or..

gonna be the all time speed record for thanksgiving NAP !!

#10 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-28 11:29 AM | Reply

Happy Thanksgiving you filthy animals.

I did my part. And I did it my way.

And now I am thankful to have just survived the Game as long as I have.

It's all gravy now.

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-28 11:41 AM | Reply

Hmmmmm....probably followed by a meeting of you commies...

:) :)

We consider ourselves progressives, but in MAGA world we are labeled commies. All the Pride Flags and unicorns don't help.

#12 | Posted by mattm at 2024-11-28 12:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Spoke with our son in Detroit. He and his wife just came back from the Thanksgiving day parade and will be watching the Lions game in a bar.

Standing room only admission for $100.

#13 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-11-28 12:36 PM | Reply

Standing room only admission for $100.

Pretty much encapsulates why I have given up on football. Prices are crazy, contracts through the roof and team valuations continue to climb.
No longer middle class or working family entertainment. Family of 4 can spend over a thousand dollars to attend a game now.
Not a criticism of your son. Lions fans have suffered even more than Vikings fans and I am rooting for them. Year of the Cat.

#14 | Posted by mattm at 2024-11-28 12:43 PM | Reply

All Americans have much for which to be thankful this year! A cautionary note, the people that have been running the country in Joe Biden and Kamala's mental absence are working overtime to destroy America. They are not going to stop just because we elected Trump.

#15 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-11-28 12:49 PM | Reply