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Clutch Munny
10-09-2006, 03:00 PM
...in which we celebrate, by parliamentary order, "A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed".

Or, more accurately for most of us, a long weekend of televised sports and turkey farts usefully located about midway between Labour Day and Christmas.

The inherently greater rationality of this earlier date for Thanksgiving will eventually be recognized by Americans, setting off a landslide adoption of Canadian practices until the whole of North America is swamped with same-sex spouses who are constantly high owing to permissive drug laws even as they selfishly decide to get pancreatic cancer in order to enjoy the subsidized benefits of single-payer health care.

:muahaha:

So, Happy Thanksgiving.
Shelli
10-09-2006, 03:19 PM
:turkey:
livius drusus
10-09-2006, 03:23 PM
:roastturkey: :stinky:
SharonDee
10-09-2006, 03:25 PM
:lol:

:appl:
Legs
10-09-2006, 03:59 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians, we had turkey last week :shrug: so today it's Rock Cornish Hens.
viscousmemories
10-09-2006, 04:22 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, Canucks!

:turkey: :roastturkey: :turkeyf:
ChuckF
10-09-2006, 06:37 PM
Happy turkey day, eh!
Sweetie
10-09-2006, 07:44 PM
I'm stuffed. :giggles:
godfry n. glad
10-09-2006, 08:47 PM
L-Triptophan poisoning on a nationwide basis!
Canada lapses into narcolepsy - How anyone knows is big question.

May the gravy runneth over. May the 'taters be mashed juuuuust to your liking. May the stuffing be moist without being soggy, and may the turkey not be dry and overcooked, but cooked to perfection.

May you all escape E.coli, ptomaine, dysentery, or any other food or beverage-borne maladies this year and have a nice nap in front of the flickering television.

May you have reason to give thanks.
D. Scarlatti
10-09-2006, 08:50 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, Canucks!

:turkey: :roastturkey: :turkeyf:

For a moment I thought that was a hammer and sickle, which would have been an equally appropriate salutation.
Legs
10-09-2006, 08:53 PM
Google getting into the spirit of things
godfry n. glad
10-09-2006, 08:53 PM
On G. Bush's electronic reminder pad ~ Turkey: sammich and ally.
Dingfod
10-09-2006, 08:55 PM
I think it's high time the US should consider moving it's Thanksgiving to October, to space out the holidays a bit better, get rid of the controversial Columbus Day, and to vastly expand the Christmas shopping season.
godfry n. glad
10-09-2006, 08:59 PM
I think it's high time the US should consider moving it's Thanksgiving to October, to space out the holidays a bit better, get rid of the controversial Columbus Day, and to vastly expand the Christmas shopping season.

I'm with you, there. Ding.

Of course, we could just make Hallowe'en a true thanksgiving day. A big turkey dinner followed by passing out candy to torpid toddlers in costumes. Sounds like just the ticket to me.

To top it all off, we should have community wicker man burnings!

Oh... I'll pass on the Christmas shit. I do my best to ignore that stuff.
ChuckF
10-09-2006, 08:59 PM
I think it's high time the US should consider moving it's Thanksgiving to October, to space out the holidays a bit better, get rid of the controversial Columbus Day, and to vastly expand the Christmas shopping season.
And make it even harder to tell Canada apart? No way.
Plant Woman
10-09-2006, 09:15 PM
Yeah, Thanksgiving in October, makes more sense. Turkey day with the harvest in late November, doesn't make sense, unless you live in California.
pescifish
10-09-2006, 10:13 PM
:yay:
I'm wishing I could be at Legs' house for dinner.

Happy Thanksgiving you Canadian folks!
Julie
10-10-2006, 05:55 AM
We BBQ'd the turkey this year...Turkey Dinner at my In-laws house just isnt the same as with my family.....My in-laws use packaged gravy! If I hadn't been off drinking Gin alllll day I would have noticed this and fixed it and made proper gravey with gibblets and all.

But it was a great weekend. We left thursday afternoon and just got home 45 min ago.

Oh if you have never tried BBQ'd turkey..you must it was wonderful!
pescifish
10-10-2006, 06:40 AM
Julie, do you mean BBQ'd turkey as in grilled on a barbecue? :weber:

Or do you also mean it was slathered with barbecue sauce as it was cooking?

If you mean just the grilling part, then :yup:
My mother hosted our extended family's 30-40 people Thanksgiving each year and would get a huge turkey (30-ish pounds). We cooked it on charcoal Weber grill (like the one in the smiley), using indirect heat and a special aluminum extender to the grill so the turkey would fit under the dome top. We didn't use bbq sauce, though I bet that tastes good too!
Julie
10-10-2006, 06:10 PM
LOl I mean slow cooked over hot coals for hours and hours and hours and hours...Not a drop of "BBQ" sauce in sight! (And we didn't have a real BBQ big enough, we bought a new meatl garbage can and modified it...it worked great.)
Sweetie
10-10-2006, 06:47 PM
My Mom is practicing the art of deep frying turkey, she tried it this summer and last summer.

That's what the Southerners sometimes do? That's what I heard. :dunno:
Julie
10-10-2006, 08:42 PM
Deep fried is good...I perfer the taste of BBQ, heck I perfer a good roasted turkey over a deep fried anyways...its all about the stuffing and gravy ;)
The Jesus Lawyer
10-10-2006, 11:26 PM
had a great weekend...thanks and happy thanksgiving back at ya :D

michael :)