I always get a little aggro at people who call this “Turkey Day.” Turkey is a real nation, and has nothing to do with the bird. Yes, I am a pedantic fuck. Shut up. You love me anyway.
Gobble gobble, you bastards. May you eat 10x your average caloric intake today, and enjoy this day of excess and gluttony. I know I will. Hell, as you read this, I may be facedown in a stonking pile of naked tits. Because that’s how we roll in our house.
Tits you say? That sounds way better than the turkey I am serving. Enjoy the special day set aside in this 11th month just for hedonistic eating!
I would also like to thank you for not providing “Turkey” with a Black-Hole Sun.
Hmmm pile o’ tits does sound good… Though in the UK that could also mean a pile of idiots… but I’d prefer the soft squishy stuff 😛
I love you _because_ your a pedantic fuck.
Not sure if trolling.
*you’re
Boom.
*applauds*
Bazinga!
It’s Turkey Day. Turkeys are noble and intelligent birds (in the wild) – smart, wily, and difficult to catch. They were also considered as a possible choice for the national bird. The fact that there’s a nation with the same name as the bird is absolutely neither here nor there.
I have a little aggro over folk as get offended over irrelevancies. :-p And yeah, I’m pedantic too. :-p :-p
Bullshit aside, it’s a harvest festival. OK, we’re far removed from the time when autumn was a time of back-breaking hard work and great anxiety; when it was a race against the clock and nature to harvest and store as much food as possible against the long winter months; when you weren’t certain you’d have enough food stored to survive until the spring planting came in. But in that time, and in that condition, having successfully staved off horrible death by starvation for one more year was indeed a cause for eating like a fool – not only had you earned a party, but there was all that food which you could not store… May as well stuff it down your neck!
So – think about whatever horrible fates you’ve dodged this year, whatever successes you’ve lined up for you and yours, and party in gratitude!
‘Sides, there’s also Turkey, Texas, up here in the Panhandle… the home of the late great Bob Wills.
Ah, Thanksgiving. A day to celebrate how fucking awesome we are by eating too much and passing out listening to football.
God bless America.
Wife and I had the Big Dinner(tm) yesterday. Today, going out to an early dinner at noon, because I’ll be hitting the road for Williamsburg. Tomorrow and Friday, hanging out in Jamestown in 1610, 10 YEARS before those bozos in the Mayflower got lost, looking for Northern Virginia.
And I bet some idiot visitor asks me if I’m a Pilgrim.
To be fair, the bird *is* named after the country. So why not both?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/opinion/the-turkeys-turkey-connection.html?hp&rref=opinion/international&_r=0
Yep! What I was about to post!
That’s so cool!
ANd if you were being REALLY pedantic, spell the name of the country: Türkiye. C’mon. They use the Roman alphabet.
That’s how Omar really would spell it.
If he’s legit. 🙂
Happy Fowl Murder Cookoff Day all you Caucasians.
“Caucasians” ??
Watch yer language there, boih.
Say to Russian that he is a Caucasian and you will be eating your teeth.
The juxtaposition to “turkey” makes me momentarily tink you’re face down in a pile of naked tits.
They ARE rather small birds. Guess it would take a pile to equal one turkey.
My wife be walking around topless as we have no family coming over. So I get to enjoy a nice pair of tits as well.
A major component of language is intent coupled with context. Else how would you know what a speaker or writer meant by the word “batter”?
Hey. Happy Turkey Day, you weirdo.
And to all your house as well.
😛 😀 <3
Fun fact: There is a city in Turkey named after Batman.
Ahh the happynes, the joy, the coming out to the family. Ahhh good times.
I prefer to say call it Turkey Genocide Day. Tho I guess by your standpoint that makes it sound like I hate the Turks. I assure you tho, I have nothing against Turks. Ottoman or Seljuk.
This is not a “Turkey Day” at our house… kids all gone to their in-laws… Yea! My wife and I are thankful that we don’t have to deal with the bird… we had 8oz black Angus Steak (Med Rare) with baked potatoes and broccoli, with plenty of mighty-fine beverage to wash it all down. No football either. We just read and kept each other company… all in all a most memorable Thanks day.
I’m aussie, so no turkey for me today (actually yesterday cause you guys live in the past).
Stop reading ahead!
Damn time-travelling Aussies… Alsways with the spoilers, you lot!
We have taken to gathering with friends & families at one of the local buffet places, as no one is well-suited anymore to cook & clean for all. Unfortunately it does often fill up with other families, making for lots of noise & crowding as we all shuffle through lines trying to grab the last bit of sweet potato casserole or waiting for the next pan of rolls to come out.
Someone today compared Thanksgiving at a family buffet to the Black Friday of Eating. Had to laugh!
This year we tried a hotel buffet- overpriced, but far calmer & less crowded FWIW.
Happy Thanksannukah!
I am grateful for the laughter & thought you bring to my world with both your comics,
and look forward to stocking up on the next batch of books at convention time. ^_^
Bacon-wrapped turkey. Because that’s how I roll in MY house….
Speaking of the country – the national sport: truly one of the manliest – yaÄŸlı güreÅŸ – no more need be said.