Happy Thanksgiving

by Bryan

10 comments

1 hipparchia { 11.26.15 at 5:23 pm }

2 dinners today for me! one with turkey, the other with turkey and smoked ham.

😆 at ‘charcoal gray thursday’!

I think I’ve got that wkrp episode permanently burned into my brain. it’s a classic.

2 Steve Bates { 11.26.15 at 5:56 pm }

We fed turkey to the kitties; does that count? 😈 Hope you had a happy one, Bryan!

3 hipparchia { 11.26.15 at 7:36 pm }

We fed turkey to the kitties

the store was out of turkey cat food this time, so mine are stuck with seafood and chicken-and-liver flavors this time. happy thanksgiving to esther and lily and their humans!

4 Bryan { 11.26.15 at 9:30 pm }

Turkey being eaten by any creature counts, Steve.

Well, Hipparchia, you had two turkey meals, so that covers the kitties. My Dad loved that episode. Too bad music copyright issues prevents the series from being sent into reruns.

5 Steve Bates { 11.27.15 at 10:19 am }

hipparchia, clearly your kitties did just fine on T-day, as did ours. Stella is the one who had the foresight to snap up some turkey-containing cat food before it became scarce in the stores this season, and also reminded me not to hand it out to them ’til the appropriate day. They were obviously grateful; Lily (“Stella’s kitty”) and Esther (“my kitty”) were affectionate to their respective “owners.” (The assignment is by the kitties themselves; that’s just who they look to most often for attention.) I hope you had a grand one, hipparchia!

Bryan, we may not have executed the turkeys ourselves (with Sarah Palin in the foreground of the video clip), but there is at least one fewer turkey in the world thanks to our kitties. We figure it’s not our business to impose our sprout-eater status on any other critters (feline or human), so the cats got their treat and we did our duty.

6 Bryan { 11.27.15 at 10:42 pm }

I appreciate any available support in the elimination of domesticated turkeys, Steve. I tend to get along fine with wild turkeys, the ones that still fly and roost in trees, and Wild Turkey, which makes some people fly and roost in trees. 😉

7 Badtux { 11.29.15 at 12:18 am }

I ate turkey with a few hundred other people at a remote desert outpost well away from Black Friday, Thanksgiving Day sales, Internet, or cell phone signal for that matter. I don’t know how many turkeys we ended up accounting for, but it was more than a few.

That music copyright BS has kept a lot of shows of that era off of reruns. It turns out that a lot of producers decided to cheap out and get only one-time rights to the music, because who would ever want to do re-runs of some cheesy sit-com about a radio station, right? Maybe they had a point (one episode nonwithstanding), but the sad thing is that some of the classic PBS documentaries of the Civil Rights movement did the same sort of short-sighted penny pinching, and as a result we lost most of them — the only one that’s available now, “Eyes on the Prize”, is available only because there was a huge uproar and the music companies agreed to re-negotiate the music licensing to allow a re-release, but for 23 years it was utter unobtanium.

8 Bryan { 11.29.15 at 10:23 pm }

The intellectual property laws in the US are unintended consequences writ large. Many of the people who actually create music get ripped off while those that just do the marketing make money hand over fist.

Thank your desert friends for me the next time you see them, Badtux. The only good turkey is thoroughly defrosted and either deep fried in peanut oil or slow roasted and frequently basted.

9 hipparchia { 12.03.15 at 7:03 pm }

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/12/that-time-europe-air-dropped-vaccine-loaded-chicken-heads-to-bait-rabid-foxes/417951/#article-comments

somebody in comments links to the wkrp episode.

10 Bryan { 12.03.15 at 10:17 pm }

😆