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Subject: Happy Thanksgiving
Posted by: Jag
- [14828255] Thu, Nov 22, 2007, 10:48
Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. |
| 1 | Mattinglyinthehall
Leader
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Thu, Nov 22, 2007, 12:17
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Ditto.
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| 2 | Boxman
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Thu, Nov 22, 2007, 18:09
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Same to you guys.
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| 3 | Perm Dude
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Thu, Nov 22, 2007, 19:59
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Lots of pie. Lots of stuffing. Lots of turkey. Mmmmm.
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| 4 | holt
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Thu, Nov 22, 2007, 23:28
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Wow. There was a meat/cheese/etc tray at the family dinner today. I mean in addition to the regular turkey smoked turkey smoked ham etc etc feast. I knew it was a bad idea, but what are you gonna do? Ignore the cheese tray? Right. I'm just thankful I stopped eating when I did.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.
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| 5 | biliruben
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Fri, Nov 23, 2007, 00:33
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No. Room. For. Pie.
But the pumpkin cheese cake? Okay, the pie too.
Ughh.
Happy turkey day, guru nation.
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| 6 | Tree
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Fri, Nov 23, 2007, 07:33
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in my family, thanksgiving is a 3-day affair. we're just getting started...
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| 7 | Boxman
ID: 571114225
Fri, Nov 23, 2007, 14:05
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Turkey sandwiches for two meals in a row now; going for three in a row at dinner. Ahhhhhhhh.
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| 8 | sarge33rd
ID: 99331714
Fri, Nov 23, 2007, 16:19
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No. Room. For. Pie.
ALWAYS room for pie!!!!!
Hope all had a good day yesterday and a good holiday upcoming!!!
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| 9 | Doug
ID: 144571812
Sat, Nov 24, 2007, 04:58
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Belated happy Turkey Day.
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| 10 | nerveclinic
ID: 105222
Sat, Nov 24, 2007, 13:52
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For Thanksgiving I watched the Green Bay/Detroit game in a neighborhood sports bar here in Dubai.
Started out as a bad night, last year they had turkey with all the trimmings, A+ spread. This year they forgot...
So I ate Italian instead.
I went next door to the sports bar (Movenpick hotel) and sat down to watch the game.
The manager stopped by and asked if someone who wanted to watch American football could join me? "Of course", I said (most of the bar was full of Euro soccer...I mean football fans."
My new friend sat down next to me and said "who are you for Green bay or Detroit?"
"I'm not really a fan of either" I said "but I love the year Favre is having and it's a great story".
"I am a Green Bay fan" he said. He was Greek, maybe 55-60 years old, currently lives in Greece. He spent 9 years in Wisconsin though and attended all their games and had been to 3 superbowls... this was a true Green Bay and American football fan.
He talked football the whole game and seemed genuinely pleased to be sharing the game with an American that was also into the sport...American football is not big in Greece.
What can I say. Such a great game, seeing the old Favre, watching him complete 20 passes in a row. "Do they even have a running back?" I asked my new friend.
There's no substitute for family at Thanksgiving. I am envious but happy for all of you had a wonderful family holiday.
But there I sat for 3.5 hours in a hotel sports bar in Dubai, with this Greek stranger who had lived in Wisconsin going on and on about American football, how much he loved Green Bay and Favre, and how he hoped that Favre would finish his Career in the Super Bowl.
He had closed a banking deal in Johannesburg and had stopped in Dubai on the way home just to see the game...that's a fan.
Turkey and family would have been nice though.
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| 11 | Perm Dude
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Sat, Nov 24, 2007, 14:31
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I'll hoist a turkey sandwich to you today, nerve.
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| 12 | walk
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Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 09:43
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Good post, nerve.
Happy belated Thanksgiving.
- walk
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| 13 | Perm Dude
ID: 3210201915
Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 17:16
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Happy Turkey day, everyone.
I know this isn't for everyone, but here's a poem by E E Cummings for the day:
["i thank You God for most this amazing"]
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| 14 | sarge33rd
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Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 19:23
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and to you and yours PD.
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| 15 | Great One
ID: 36214199
Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 20:30
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Watch for me at Punkin Chunkin!
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| 16 | Perm Dude
ID: 3210201915
Fri, Nov 25, 2011, 10:59
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Ah, here's the America I remember: Competitive Black Friday shopping, with pepper spray.
As an aside, can't we just call it "Friday?" Why do we have to drag race into it?
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| 17 | biliruben
ID: 358252515
Fri, Nov 25, 2011, 13:56
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Happy happy. Gobble gobble.
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| 18 | sarge33rd
ID: 1610252611
Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 12:50
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from pDs link above re Wal Mart:
Joseph Poulose, who said he was hit with the spray near the DVD and video games display, criticized the store for failing to control the crowds.
"There were way too many people in a building that size. Every aisle was full," he said. Customers were stomping on photo frames and other items on the floor, said Poulose, who tried to protect his pregnant wife from the throng of shoppers inside.
"It was definitely the worst Black Friday I’ve ever experienced," he said.
Trying to protect your pregnant wife? Hey dumbass...when you got there and saw the store over filled to the brim, did the notion of protecting her BY GOING HOME, ever enter your pea brain?
I've said it before and prolly will again, re the American consumer...there exists no more selfish, arrogant, obnxious or thoughtless PoS on this planet...than an American doing their Christmas shopping.
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| 19 | Boldwin
ID: 110542611
Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 16:56
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In a world with a Kim Il Sung and a Hugo Chavez, that's pretty thotless and uncivil of you.
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| 20 | sarge33rd
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Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 17:05
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No, it comes from years of experience in dealing with selfish arrogance on a daily basis. (Retail)
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| 21 | Boldwin
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Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 17:17
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I heard a rumor they had a riot at the local Walmart over $1.99 videos, had to close the store for 45 minutes to clean up the blood. And this is small town America. I'm not saying there's nothing to it, but you gotta admit yer exagerating just a tad.
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| 22 | Boldwin
ID: 110542611
Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 17:19
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And how tuff can it be on car salesmen and insurance agents in the holiday season anyway?
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| 23 | DWetzel
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Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 17:49
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Leave it to the ultimate douchebag to hurl personal insults in the Happy Thanksgiving thread. Shows the real character of the slime.
Oh, and belated happy Thanksgiving to one and (almost) all.
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| 24 | sarge33rd
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Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 21:07
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when was the last holiday, your local dealership was closed?
(Hint: there are pretty much 4/yr...Christmas Day, Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving Day and MOST, are closed New Years Day...though not all.) Outside of those 4 holidays, the VAST majority of dealerships are open, and their sales staff gets those holidays with their families.
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| 25 | Boldwin
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Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 22:01
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Sarge
No, I know it's a tuff job in many ways. The hours...wow. But how would your career path lead you to be so down on holiday shoppers?
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| 26 | sarge33rd
ID: 1610252611
Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 22:15
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Judas friggin priest B, have you never just sat and watched people? I've seen adult women in Toys-R-Us, take toys out of the hands of some lil kid, cause they wanted the damn thing for THEIR lil brat. I have many times, made the comment that if our kids behaved in public, the way adults do at Christmas time, we'd beat them. I have repeatedly, said that THE worst thing to ever happen to American retail...was the dumbass who said "the customer is always right". Want to know what the truth is? The TRUTH, is that the customer is almost NEVER right. And every year, because some schmuck failed to thoroughly enough kiss some ignorant PoS's ass, they get fired. I have oft said that I prefer the European climate in retail. Where if the customer there gave grief to the clerk like we see here, the store owner would toss the customer out the door. And he can do that, cause the store owner across the street will do the same thing.
Anyone who has worked retail, has grown to despise the American consumer. They wont necessarily all be honest enough to admit it in public, but I will.
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| 27 | Boldwin
ID: 110542611
Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 22:35
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Ok, Ok, I give up the pedantic quest. I don't get how car or insurance shoppers act that way but forget it.
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| 28 | sarge33rd
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Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 22:39
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when/where, did I specify car/ins shoppers? I said, "the American consumer".
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| 29 | Tree
ID: 41512710
Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 23:13
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i wonder if there's anything in the DSM-IV for people who read something, but the letters get all jumbled up and they see it as something totally and completely different than what it actually says.
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| 30 | sarge33rd
ID: 1610252611
Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 23:15
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Boldwinitis?
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| 31 | Boldwin
ID: 110542611
Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 23:46
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when/where, did I specify car/ins shoppers? - Sarge#28
No, it comes from years of experience in dealing with selfish arrogance on a daily basis. (Retail) - Sarge#20
Ergo at sometime between your insurance company and your stint with various car sales outfits...you have years experiencing what exactly?
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| 32 | sarge33rd
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Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 23:48
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I would not have thought, such density would allow for the sustainment of human life.
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| 33 | Boldwin
ID: 110542611
Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 00:47
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Shaving?
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| 34 | Nuclear Gophers
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Sun, Dec 04, 2011, 11:02
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16-The same goes for black eye, black ink, jet black, black sheep, black powder, black eye peas, pot calling the kettle black, blackboard, black and white, the black hole, black-tie affair, black out, black on black, black cat crossed my path, black history month, meet joe black, black country, black panthers, black hawk down, black listed, black knight, black licorice, black lightning, black jack, black hair, the black hills, black gold, black flag, black diamond, black electrical tape, black crayon, black coffee, black beard, black beauty, black belt, black and decker, black and gold, black berry, black cloud, black head, blackice, blackmail, blacking out, the black sea, blacktop, then you wonder why we have a race problem.
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