Ahhhh.... full. My plate looked much like Tom's. Except they forgot to serve the cranberry sauce (which had come out better than ever before!), so we had it as a palate cleanser in between dinner and dessert.
Gabriel: Are you trying to destroy this family? Simon: I didn't realize it would be so easy.
'Safe'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Nov 24, 2011 2:23:56 pm PST #8321 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Nov 24, 2011 2:47:18 pm PST #8322 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
so we had it as a palate cleanser in between dinner and dessert.
Whose house was this? I need to know in case they ever invite me, so I can turn them down. It's ALL about the cranberry sauce. You can't forget it. That's unpalatable.
Did you not notice? Did your soul not cry out in privation and pain?
Strix - Nov 24, 2011 2:49:45 pm PST #8323 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I just watched the West Wing Butterball hotline clip. It was pretty funny.
Question for any Jewish Buffistas: Hanukkah falls over Xmas. D and I are atheist and agnostic, respectively; M is being raised Jewish. He's down with the menorah made from Legos, but I've been researching Hanukkah and M wants us to sing the songs and prayers with him.
Neither of us have a problem with this at all and would be doing it from love.
Q1: Is this sacrilegious? And is it ok to put the menorah on the mantel, because putting it by our out-facing windows means a cat or dog will no doubt light itself on fire.
Q2: What are we supposed to say/sing, and does anyone have a link to them in phonetic English and a link that I can hear? (M remembers "most of the words" but hey, he's nine. I need a print out!)
I am a Virgo; if I am gonna do this, I want to try to get it right. And I'm good with Romance language accents; Hebrew is a mystery to my vocal cords.
Thanks!!!
I've researched but there seems to be a ton of stuff and I don't know WHAT is proper, but short and sweet. And a little, inexpensive gift each night is ok, right? I mean, he gets Hanukkah AND Xmas presents from about 8 million relatives, step and bio.
billytea - Nov 24, 2011 2:51:50 pm PST #8324 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Did you not notice? Did your soul not cry out in privation and pain?
That's what I should be having today! I have a cheekily insouciant strawberry, raspberry and cranberry jam at home. I should be having a jam sandwich today.
Tom Scola - Nov 24, 2011 2:55:04 pm PST #8325 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I misread the bus schedule, so I'm stuck waiting here outside in a bus terminal in Toms River for an hour.
Jesse - Nov 24, 2011 2:59:05 pm PST #8326 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Whose house was this? I need to know in case they ever invite me, so I can turn them down. It's ALL about the cranberry sauce. You can't forget it. That's unpalatable.
Did you not notice? Did your soul not cry out in privation and pain?
Heh. I didn't notice, although I do enjoy the cranberry. There was a lot of other stuff to distract!
sj - Nov 24, 2011 3:09:40 pm PST #8327 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We forgot to put the cranberry sauce out too. We forget it all the time, and I love it.
Burrell - Nov 24, 2011 3:17:32 pm PST #8328 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
We are having a mild emergency here. The oven isn't working properly and the turkey isn't cooking properly. Oops. Good thing there's wine and provisions.
§ ita § - Nov 24, 2011 3:17:41 pm PST #8329 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am newly come to this Thanksgiving foofurrah, but I understand a few basic things: don't drop turkeys from planes; ritual sacrifice with pie; and SYMBOLIC BLOOD VIA CRANBERRIES.
There's other stuff, but I can't always keep track.
sj - Nov 24, 2011 3:25:02 pm PST #8330 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The basic problem in our house seems to be that everything is coming out of the oven, but the cranberry sauce is in the fridge.