Posts Tagged ‘Thanksgiving’

William Shatner PSA on How Not To Set Yourself on Fire Frying a Turkey

Thursday, November 22nd, 2018

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

As a public service, I am once again offering up this video of William Shatner showing you how not to fry a Turkey:

Happy eating, and stay safe!

A Quick and Easy Method to Ensure Peace and Harmony At Your Family’s Thanksgiving Dinner

Thursday, November 23rd, 2017

The holidays can be a confusing time for some people. Especially if you’re “woke” and you’ve spend years reading articles about how you should annoy your relatives with your inane opinions about ObamaCare, global warming or Donald Trump. As an alternative to assure peace and harmony at your family Thanksgiving dinner, I offer you this alternative piece of advice:

Shut your pie hole!

Yes. Your pie hole. The orifice into which you shovel food. Shut it!

To elaborate:

  • Things that go in your pie hole today: Turkey, gravy, rolls, stuffing, mashed potatoes, pie.
  • Things that come out of your pie hole today: “Please.” “Thank you.” “Great dinner!”
  • Things that do not come out of your pie hole today: “Woke.” “Patriarchy.” “White privilege.” “Heteronormative.” “Trump.”
  • If you follow this one handy tip, you can make Thanksgiving more enjoyable for everyone!

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Thursday, November 24th, 2016

    Here’s Jim Geraghty’s piece on how to survive Thanksgiving with relatives who have been freebasing those “how to talk down to your racist redneck JesusLand freak relatives about Trump” articles from Salon and Vox.

    And to celebrate, here’s the classic “Turkeys Away” segment from WKRP in Cincinnati:

    Edited to Add: Via Ace of Spades comes an alternate take on the subject: “How to Talk to Your Pansy Marxist Nephew at Thanksgiving.”

    How to Talk About Star Wars at Thanksgiving With Your Ignorant, Rebellion-Backing Uncle

    Thursday, November 26th, 2015

    And now something lite for the holidays: How to Talk About Star Wars at Thanksgiving With Your Ignorant, Rebellion-Backing Uncle, which touches on such important points as:

  • The Jedi Are a Racist Space Aristocracy
  • Ted Cruz
  • Hitler
  • Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

    Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Thanksgiving Address

    Thursday, November 28th, 2013

    Expect slow blogging the rest of the week while I’m giving thanks by stuffing my face, so here’s Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Thanksgiving address.

    “It’s people, not government, who create wealth and provide growth.”

    Quite a contrast with current occupant of the White House…

    A Quick Pre-Thanksgiving LinkSwarm

    Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

    Lots of larger pieces in various stage of construction, but rather than put them up when everyone is getting ready for Thanksgiving, here’s a quick LinkSwarm:

  • Ted Cruz named National Republican Senatorial Committee Vice-Chairman. Maybe he can prevent Todd Akins from ensuing.
  • Former Sen. Warren Rudman dead at age 82. Gramm-Rudman-Hollings really worked at controlling the deficit. That’s why Democrats had to kill it.
  • Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire. Pretty much ensuring that we’ll go through this whole charade again a year or two down the road.
  • The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco and Grain Millers Union, having been given a second chance by a federal judge, decided that the first hole in their foot just wasn’t big enough and decided to shoot again. Hostess is still dead.
  • Two weeks after wining reelection, and facing an FBI probe for corruption, Jesse Jackson, Jr. resigns. Like father like son.
  • William Shatner would like you to remember not to set yourself on fire frying a turkey.
  • And the Mythbusters would like you to avoid dropping a frozen turkey on your foot, or on your pets.
  • Happy Thanksgiving!