Thanksgiving is here! I like that for a few reasons.
1. Thanksgiving is the only week of the year where you can legitimately eat pumpkin pie for breakfast. (I think this is a sad commentary on America's pie-hating ways.)
2. Turkeys are the ugliest animals in the world, and, in my humble opinion, deserve to die. I must say, I'm a little startled to type that, but I really believe it. How does a population that ugly sustain itself? My guess: turkeys get hammered before they mate.
3. A few years back, a relative of mine (who shall go nameless) had a little too much vino over Thanksgiving and started referring to my grandmother's dachsaund as Santa Claus. This is not entirely out of the ordinary with my family.
4. I also like that Thanksgiving doesn't have a mascot, like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or the Hannukah Platypus. If a holiday has a mascot, it's trying too hard to impress me.
5. Thanksgiving also has a good origin: we celebrate the one unpoisoned meal that white people gave to the native americans.
Okay, those are my five reasons. Expect my updates to be sporadic until the holiday is over. Let me make that clearer: don't delay your Thanksgiving dinner for a Goulash update. You can certainly delay your Christmas festivities for it, but Thanksgiving is a different story.
Posted by Cody at November 20, 2006 8:35 PM