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[melodyclark]

Native American gathers all the elders in his circle. "I got a surefire way to get rid of the white guys," he says, "first, we roast one of those awful birds with the stringy, dry white meat then we serve it with some of those spongy, sickly sweet orange roots and those really tart-tasting, hard little berries. We invite them all over to dinner

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[adaveen]

I have a Thanksgiving joke.

Why doesn't anyone ever get laid on Thanksgiving?

Cuz there's always coats all over the bed.

*rimshot*

I hate Thanksgiving with the passion of a thousand burning suns.

[melodyclark]

It's not one of my favorite holidays either. I imagine many women don't think much of it because we're ritually left with most of the work. lol

[watergal]

Rent-a-hubby's Thanksgiving joke is, during our annual discussion of where and how to assemble our group, to insert "I think Thanksgiving's going to be fall on a Thursday this year." Like the proverbial other shoe, come each September I can't relax until he gets this routine over with.

He seems to believe that each year it's as funny as the first time he tried it.

Actually...I suppose he's right.

[melodyclark]

Yeah, my Uncle Winburne (I come from a southern family, most of the older folk have weird old English names) did that one every year. It was left to my father-in-law to do the dancing turkey carcass one.

[lil_shepherd]

Well, yes. There are just slightly bigger (and louder) frogs in teeny-weenie puddles. I am stunned by the amount of 'fannish privilege' around. It may be because some people have always written for the egoboo rather than because they are driven to do so, and now they are in the ascendant. The results is that there are so-called fans, who I still hope are a minority, who think that they have a right to read anything (and copy it, and steal from it) which should be spoonfed to them. They also think that anyone who reads their own stories should leave a note of uncritical praise....

[melodyclark]

Well, as one of the folk in the "who could write circles around you" category, I expect you had run into these people. I think you're right about the ego thing. They get addicted to this ludicrous "post and praise" phenomenon and need a regular fix. Anyone who doesn't play the game is hated. You either participate in the mad "post and praise" stuff or you're one of the outcast. I write lots of encouraging posts to younger writers I think deserve them but I'm not going to post a comment just because I'm being bullied into it in one of these self-important demagoguery-fed petty fiefdoms. I don't post criticism anymore either way simply because I don't but I wouldn't bother really with 97% of the drabble-fed, challenge-enabled crap that's posted on the communities anyway. Yeesh. Sorry ... can you tell I'm ticked about this? lol If someone is just posting fan fic for fun, that's one thing, but when they build up this newbie fangod hysteria ... Oy

[melodyclark]

I've tried all manner of them. Former fan writers turned pro writers weren't even recognized. Blank stares all around.

I should probably find a more well-read farmers market. lol

Thanksgiving joke

[carose59]

Years and years ago, when Jon Stewart had his late night talk show, he said in his monologue that he was going to celebrate a traditional Thanksgiving that year: invite the neighbors over for dinner, then the next day, kill a bunch of them and steal their stuff.

That's my favorite Thanksgiving joke. Why are you not surprised? *g*

Oh, and that reminds me. When I was in New York--did I mention I'd been to New York?--I saw a T-shirt I nearly bought. It was being sold by a Native American* group, and it had a picture of a four Native Americans with rifles on it. Above the picture it said, HOMELAND SECURITY, and underneath it said, "Fighting Terrorism Since 1492."

Re: Thanksgiving joke

[melodyclark]

LOL - Leave it to Jon to sum it up perfectly. I gotta tell that one to Robin.

I've actually seen that t-shirt. I almost lost a thing of popcorn while laughing at it.