Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:41:38 -0600
Reply-To: joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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From: joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject: Re: Being PC on The List (kinda long and stoopid). :)
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> 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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