The death of Thanksgiving?

[Pogo]

Actuallly it's spelled d-e-f-i-a-n-t. ...

No, that's not it. A strange overreaction, really. You seem tense today. Probably too much driving; that can be stressful. You should talk with Esmeralda. Maybe she can help you feel better, and she's looking for a friend.


This is nice.

You're a master-baiter aren't you. Stop projecting.

Actually I wouldn't call him a 'master'. He's just a gadfly on Asperger's.

 

[007]

Don't you have any friends who live nearby? Doesn't she?

What the fuck is your problem? Just let it go.

It's a reasonable question. Sounds like you could use a friend. I hear that Pogo fella is pretty affable, maybe you two should get together.

Sounds like you need a ball gag ya nasty mouthed little bitch.

 

[koshergrl]

Maybe you could loan him yours, perv.

 

[Sunshine]

Canada has a Thanksgiving too. It's just not the same Thanksgiving.

The same arguments were used years ago when stores started opening on Sunday. Sunday was family day. Except it really isn't any more so stores open. The loss of Thanksgiving is more a consequence of the breakdown of families than any other reason.

Yes, and no. You can argue that shopping at Thanksgiving will force more people into the workforce on that day and away from their families. As I said, it's self fulfilling. Soon Thanksgiving won't mean anything except the 1st day of shopping for Christmas. An end to a fine holiday.

Againsheila, your liberal friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a socialist authoritarian age. They do not believe except they are spoon fed by the liberal media. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Sheila, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Sheila, there will still be Thanksgiving. It exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Thanksgiving. It would be as dreary as if there were no Sheilas. There would be no gorging on turkey then, no football, no drunken family squabbles to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which overeating fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Thanksgiving if a few stores are open! You might as well not believe in cranberry sauce! You might get your papa to hire men to work on Thanksgiving to earn more money for their families, and some might think it a drag, but even if they did not eat with those families until they got home later, what would that prove? Some people have always worked on Thanksgiving, even if you don't see them from your living room, but that is no sign that there will be no Thanksgiving. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see how your Auntie Judy makes her famous stuffing? Of course not, but that's no proof that it's not there. Nobody can deny what comes out in the bathroom later.

You may tear apart the drumstick to get at the dark meat, but there is always a little stuck to the tendon which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can dig into that bird and consume the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Sheila, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Thanksgiving! Thank God! it lives, and it will live forever, even if some stores stay open and some people go to work. A thousand years from now, Sheila, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, we will continue to make pigs of ourselves then fall asleep on the sofa.
























- With deepest apologies to Francis Pharcellus Church

Good paraphrase. I find it rather ironic that liberals who don't want anyone's values dictated to them, nor any religion whatsoever make such an effort to dictate the value that Thanksgiving supposedly holds, particularly since it IS a religious holiday. It is not particular to any one religion, but giving thanks is a religious rite.

Keeping the store open that day is completely secular and non religious.

WTF? Liberals most assuredly want to dictate values and religion. The ones they approve of.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

To me, Thanksgiving should be what it used to be, a holiday, and the stores should not open until 6 AM the next day.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. I don't hit the stores until Black Friday afternoon and I am still able to find what I think are good enough deals on the stuff that I get. I don't remember ever once having any complaints.

 

[Sunshine]

Anyone who find him/herself alone on Thanksgiving can ALWAYS go volunteer at the local homeless shelter.

 

[Sunshine]

To me, Thanksgiving should be what it used to be, a holiday, and the stores should not open until 6 AM the next day.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. I don't hit the stores until Black Friday afternoon and I am still able to find what I think are good enough deals on the stuff that I get. I don't remember ever once having any complaints.

If you don't want to shop on Thanksgiving, don't shop. DUH!

 

[007]

Maybe you could loan him yours, perv.

Fuck off, whore.

 

[Katzndogz]

Anyone who find him/herself alone on Thanksgiving can ALWAYS go volunteer at the local homeless shelter.

Not on Thanksgiving. The shelters have Thanksgiving a few days early so the workers can tend to their own affairs on Thanksgiving.

What is it with people? If they are alone, they are alone more days than just Thanksgiving. What do they do on all the other days? Do the same thing.

 

[Pogo]

Good paraphrase. I find it rather ironic that liberals who don't want anyone's values dictated to them, nor any religion whatsoever make such an effort to dictate the value that Thanksgiving supposedly holds, particularly since it IS a religious holiday. It is not particular to any one religion, but giving thanks is a religious rite.

Keeping the store open that day is completely secular and non religious.

WTF? Liberals most assuredly want to dictate values and religion. The ones they approve of.

Irony? Ya want irony in dictating "approved" religions? Here's what I got for stopping to let turkeys cross the road, calling it the ahimsa thing to do:

You aren't respecting the lives of turkeys. You're pretending they're human, you nitwit. You are negged for being a fucking road hazard.

If I found you out wandering around the road trying to shoo turkeys out of the way, on any of the backroads that I have traversed, I would chew your ass and probably call the cops on you. You pose a bigger threat to the safety of motorists than the turkeys do, and your method is a lot less effective, and therefore less safe, than mine.
Moron.

Some "tolerance" huh?

 

[Pogo]

Again ... with commercial enterprises taking people away from a family holiday.............. where is Bill O'Reilly's rant on the War on Thanksgiving?

 

[JOSweetHeart]

To me, Thanksgiving should be what it used to be, a holiday, and the stores should not open until 6 AM the next day.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. I don't hit the stores until Black Friday afternoon and I am still able to find what I think are good enough deals on the stuff that I get. I don't remember ever once having any complaints.

If you don't want to shop on Thanksgiving, don't shop. DUH!

Yes, I know that. I was just giving my in general opinion on how the day should be spent.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[Sunshine]

Internet discussion forums are money making advertising media. I wonder how many holier than thou dems who want everything shut down on Thanksgiving will staff off this forum! LOL. I'm guessing not many.

 

[Sunshine]

To me, Thanksgiving should be what it used to be, a holiday, and the stores should not open until 6 AM the next day.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. I don't hit the stores until Black Friday afternoon and I am still able to find what I think are good enough deals on the stuff that I get. I don't remember ever once having any complaints.

If you don't want to shop on Thanksgiving, don't shop. DUH!

Yes, I know that. I was just giving my in general opinion on how the day should be spent.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

A day in MY life is not YOURS to spend. MYOB.

 

[Pogo]

To me, Thanksgiving should be what it used to be, a holiday, and the stores should not open until 6 AM the next day.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. I don't hit the stores until Black Friday afternoon and I am still able to find what I think are good enough deals on the stuff that I get. I don't remember ever once having any complaints.

If you don't want to shop on Thanksgiving, don't shop. DUH!

Yes, I know that. I was just giving my in general opinion on how the day should be spent.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

Couple of our posters really have their panties in a wad for anyone that doesn't fall in line, don't they?

I understand Uncle Charlie gives massages...

 

[Pogo]

If you don't want to shop on Thanksgiving, don't shop. DUH!

Yes, I know that. I was just giving my in general opinion on how the day should be spent.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

A day in MY life is not YOURS to spend. MYOB.

It's an internet message board ya silly bunt. Everybody gets to say their piece, much as that much chap your sorry ass.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I am going to catch hell for this...but...only women do this.

 

[Pogo]

I am going to catch hell for this...but...only women do this.

Only women do what?

 

[Foxfyre]

My contribution to help Nosmo save Thankstiving:

 

[Sunshine]

My contribution to help Nosmo save Thankstiving:

Well, yesterday I went to 3 malls and couldn't find a Christmas sweater. I go out with my girlfriends before my next trip to Nashville. I was there yesterday. I will not be there in time to get a nice Christmas sweater. My next trip is after we have gone out for our Christmas lunch. I did buy some nice things, but not what I wanted. So for those crabbing about stores marketing Christmas too early............I would remind all that not everyone lives on the parking lot of a shopping center.

And the place we were going was already booked for lunch on the day we chose, so we had to switch days.