About Thanksgiving

When I was a little kid, Mah Jong was a traditional Jewish game. :D

I still have my grandmother's beautiful old set, but no one to play it with anymore. I know it's not the only idea we got from China, but it ranks right up there with paper, and way above chopsticks!

We had the best Thanskgiving we've had in years. Just a few immediate family, but everyone was feeling good at the same time for the first time in a long time. :)
 
Sometime when I feel good, I wonder why it isn't like that all the time.




munk
 
As with all things - tradition changes.

It was once the tradition of my family to go hunting very early on Thanksgiving Day. Freshly killed squirrels and rabbits were brought home and cleaned for the traditional dinner. All of us boys would torment the girls by throwing the animal skins at them every chance we had, as well as at each other when the girls weren't available.
These being the days before television no one watched anything on TV although some very few of the men would crowd around a radio and listen to whatever game was being broadcast, my older brother among them. They were looked upon as being somewhat silly.;) :D
Being another man that doesn't like football or any other televised sport besides hunting or fishing shows I do agree with them.:thumbup: ;) :p

When Barbie and I first became a couple I had to learn to grin and bear it as they are all a bunch of huge sport's fans. As the kids have departed Barbie will watch a game she is particularly interested in while I set quite contendly here at my computer.

Yesterday was one of the absolute best Thanksgivings I've ever had. Getting discharged from the hospital after an eight day sojourn will make you very grateful and full of thanks.
The Sloppy Joes we had for dinner beat any ol turkey and yet we'll have the turkey dinner and all the fixings tomorrow.;) :D :cool:
 
Sometime when I feel good, I wonder why it isn't like that all the time.
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That's almost the polar opposite of that Johhny Cash quote we spoke of before isn't it?;) :D
 
Not really, but they do belong on the same page. Print them together so we can look.



munk
 
This was exactly what I learned from the English textbook.
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Now do you guys see what I mean?
The textbooks they use in Asia are not the same hardback, professionally edited and reviewed text books we had in school.
Over here textbooks on Enlgish are just paperbacks and they are not nearly close to ours in their standards.
These books are usually filled with what you guys would consider very insulting, biased lies and generalizations about Americans.
The damage these crappy books do is beyond repair as far as I can tell.

You should see these texts, filled with illustrations of our kids doing heroin in elementary school and descriptions of everybody's sister as a lesbian.

Now, Red Flower's text may not nearly have been that bad, but the ones in Japan most certainly are. Its pretty clear that the full, real meaning was not conveyed to her though.

the classic text full of bias they use in Japan is "People are funny" by Basil Lechatt.

Hitler would have loved it, except for the awful section on Germans.....
 
Not really, but they do belong on the same page. Print them together so we can look
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"sometimes at night when I hear the wind, I wish I was crazy again" J.C.

"Sometime when I feel good, I wonder why it isn't like that all the time" munk

Ok, maybe not exactly. But sort of. I don't know, it cracked me up for some reason. Drain Bamage strikes again:D
 
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