Your “Happy Thanksgiving Eve!” Wednesday Night Open Thread

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Hey!  You down there!  What day is it?  What’s that?  It’s Wednesday?  And you’ve been drinking all day watching soccer?  Why must all these Canadians keep walking past my house?

Actually, I’m not at my house. You know why? Because it’s (American) Thanksgiving week, and if you fly on the day before Thanksgiving you are just asking for trouble. As Zymm put it, Thanksgiving is to travel what St. Patty’s is to drinking–all the amateurs are out and don’t have a clue what they’re doing. Lady BFC and I are at my parents’ for the holiday, and we tried to mitigate the chaos by flying out last night and not returning until Monday night.  And our reward for that excellent planning? A 3.5 hour flight delay last night and I’m sure some other bad shit on the return.  But at least we didn’t drive.

Anyway, I’m covering for Weaselo tonight, who said he was literally napping on the job today, and I worked (almost) all day today and am (very) cranky. So I need a distraction until I make a cocktail. With Turkey Day drawing nigh, shall we focus on the objet d’art most associated with this holiday?  Not the cornucopia, nay, but the mighty hand turkey.

The hand turkey is a callback to the halcyon days of…I don’t know, art class?  I don’t think we did them in kindergarten, but maybe we did.  I sure know we did them just about every year after that until, I don’t know, junior high school? The point is, they’re a simple decoration, anyone with a hand can make one; though they may look a little different depending on the artist.

Wow, that is hideous. Let’s move on, shall we?

When Weaselo asked for a volunteer to cover tonight, I jumped in, not because I had a bunch of time, but because I really wanted another path for productive procrastination. But as soon as I said yes, I had a thought–why the fuck do I keep writing [Holiday] Eve posts? Bastille Day Eve, July Eve, Christmas Eve, July 5th, wait, most of these aren’t real. Maybe I’m just making up Eves. But it’s not like I’m the first one to do that, right, Adam?

Ok, I’ve clearly exceeded the minimum word count–though it doesn’t take images and gifs into consideration WHICH IS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ELDER MILENNIALS. Anyway, may your evening be relaxing and your belts loose enough for tomorrow’s turkey and trimmings.  Now, what’s on tonight?

Basketball:

The NBA is happening again, even though most of us don’t give a shit until Christmas if at all.  For your viewing pleasure, you could catch:

• DAL @ BOS, 6:30pm DFO time, ESPN
• LAC @ GSW, 9pm DFO time, ESPN

Hockey:

• Flyers @ Caps, 6:30pm DFO time, TNT
• Senators @ Golden Knights, 9pm DFO time, TNT

Soccer:

Something seems to be happening, I can’t be trusted to comment on it, but keep an eye out for more late night DFO open threads and/or roaming Canadians screaming about players’ shorts and/or some kind of cup they want to win.  Who knows what the hell is going on up there, just leave me to my hand turkeys and foodstuffs.