Because as we know it isn’t Thanksgiving until you hear:
“You have to stay with Barnaby, you’re married to him.”
“I don’t want to stay here with him.”
“Why?”
“I DON’T LOVE HIM!”
Because March of the Wooden Soldiers (aka Babes in Toyland) is a timeless classic, no matter how much it’s aged (and in several ways poorly)
As of now Madre Weaselo’s at the apartment so she can get a head start on cooking, Sesame Street’s singing Sing at the parade, and it is craptastic out so we haven’t heard enough about the balloons and have mostly heard about the bands.
Other random sports updates:
Ding Liren and Gukesh D are currently tied 1.5-1.5 after three matches in the FIDE World Chess Championship after Gukesh won yesterday with the white pieces after losing Match 1 with the same pieces. Today is a rest day with the next three matches being played in the three days after. The championship is 14 games (7 white, 7 black), with tiebreakers potentially afterwards with shorter and shorter time controls (starting with 4 Rapid games, 15 minutes with a 10-second bonus per move; then shortening from there).
Marble League 2024: OOOOOOOOOOO my goodness, guess who didn’t qualify? Yes, the O’rangers (and Mellow Yellow) join the list of fallen champions, where I believe out of the Original 16 the only team that hasn’t been relegated are the Savage Speeders. For fuck’s sake, the Solar Flares qualified! We didn’t even know that was allowed and a thing they could do!
What’s on right now?
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, at least in New York (multiple channels)
MST3K marathon? (YouTube)
March of the Wooden Soldiers (later, or is that just a WPIX thing?)
Okay, we’ve hit word count, so let’s just do it until we get to the football.
It’s strange to watch the Fuck Lions *doing* the ass pounding on Thanksgiving…
Morning with the Lil’ and Lil’er WCS, afternoon with the princess and Duke WCS, overnight breaking up drunken domestics.
Merry Thanksgiving!
The Bearistocrats! give up a first down on 2nd and 25, the crowd is starting to warm up.
“Gemini, are you a cop? You have to tell me if you’re a cop.”
The Bearistocrats! open up their act with two penalties on the same 3rd down play that otherwise would have gone for a first down.
All right, the Bears are down two scores, on the road, with the undivided attention of a national audience. It’s time to take some chances and see if you can make a game out of this. That’s right, it’s time for The Bearistocrats!
https://youtu.be/i2TX8c73euA?si=HiYmpDdU44IbuJZs
FOOD AND DRINK DOUBLE SHOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQGJLWr_HGY
Merry Thanksgiving
Peppermint Patty is an conceited bitch.
She’s dealing with a lot of repressed feelings towards Marcy; you leave her alone.
Was that a kickoff DOINK?
It was!
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! My horrible cat kept me up all night, so I should be tons of fun at the family soiree in Riverside. My SIL is a control freak, bless her, so all I have to bring is green beans and rolls. And my bathing suit, she’s heating up the pool. I’m going to spend the night there, so I can drink too much wine and pass out early. Hope you all have a great day, enjoy the feast!
You tie one on, Gumbygirl.
“You should bring your jerk cat to Riverside.
He’ll fit right in.”
-People From L.A.
Puts a new slant on the ouroboros…
Well this gets ahead of a section from my next post
Greetings from my in-laws. I’m tending bar, so I have an excuse to slip away from awkward convos as I desire, plus working for an international company means no one else gives a fuck it’s thanksgiving and I’m getting some pings I am selectively ignoring (depending on who else is trying to talk to me).
Only one drink in so far, so taking it relatively easy. May you all be blessed with an abundance of breast(s), turkey or otherwise.
Is this an LDB cocktease post?
Can I root for Gueksh D if I haven’t seen Gukesh A-C?
Happy Thanksgiving, reprobates.
Already had a nutritious breakfast of Dunkin’ Munchkins, a glass of juice, and two vitamins. It’s all downhill from there!
Low key day today. Dinner at eldest rights house and eldest granddaughter picking us up and taking us back home but first?
Gimme my walking shoes.
Blax?
The punchline is yours.
Happy Thanksgiving peoples!
It’s raining and cold here in the NE. Today is sweats, fuzzy socks, and feet up.
We finally got some sun. About 65 and calm.
I can work with that.
Make to sure to wear your most shiteatingest grin as you pass by tourists at red lights who are driving around in a tizzy looking for a cup of $7 coffee with soy milk (soyboys).
Some history of our Clubhouse ancestors for the occasion
the impuritans invented rum ham ppl forget that
But are either of the chess people cheating by using remote control anal beads this time?
The messed up thing is that what if you just liked wearing anal beads while playing chess; like it helped you relax or concentrate or something and all of a sudden you have to change your routine drastically because people will accuse of of cheating if you keep it up.
Is it always shitty weather for the Thanksgiving Day Parade? Surprised Mayor Adams didn’t take a bribe and changed the sponsor from Macy’s to Turkish Airlines.
First of 5 bullshit meetings done. 4 to fucking go!
I’m familiar with a MUCH different Babes In Toyland….
Nods knowingly…
Joe Burrow turns heads with comment about surgically repaired wrist
Oh, good. Our QB may not play well in cold weather games in the AFC North. Schrodinger’s Career Threatening Injury!
Having an additional way to know it’s cold out is a really lame superpower
Happy Thanksgiving everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OODA_K5hxyc
Thankful for this place. I’m first-year teaching on a provisional license right now, and I’m getting an adult dose. I’ve been assigned Economics, a subject which I’m unfamiliar with and uninterested in. I’ve been teaching the material to high-schoolers the day after, sometimes hours after, I learn it myself. I lesson plan until I fall asleep in anger. When it comes time to teach, I am simply doing an impression of teachers I have had or seen on film. My classroom management skills are non-existent. My professional comportment is undeveloped and raw. My new schedule has pulverized the structure of my sobriety, but I’m still not drinking, so I’m white-knuckling it like Ted Striker over Macho Grande. Then, recently, I got the double, body-shot hooks of the election and pneumonia, which knocked me out of school for a week.
I have thanked this place before for being my psychic anchor, but Thanksgiving seems as good a time as any to thank you palookas again for letting me lurk, laugh, and occasionally try to add something worthwhile to the proceedings. I am truly not sure what I would do if I didn’t always have the option of looking at the world through the lens of the collective brain of this commentariat, and I don’t know what I did to deserve friends like you. Pretty sure in the real world I’d be the guy serving the drinks.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I love you guys.
If I learned anything from my econ teacher, the papers are really about them submitting to your will.
/She was a hardcore Classical economist
The last time I saw a hardcore teacher there was an AVN involved.
Love you too, man. I perk up every time I see your avatar pop up, because I know it’s gonna be something good. You make this online home of ours a better place, and we’re lucky to have you.
IF THERE’S ONE THING I ALWAYS SAY ABOUT F.Ronkenshteen IT’S THAT THIS IS A MAN WHO IS #UPFORWHATEVER WITH #BUDLIGHTLIMERITA. #BUDLIGHTLIMERITAGANG
I had a professor once who introduced himself by saying that the first time someone teaches a class the teachers learns the material, and the second time the students learn the material, but that was the 23rd time he was teaching it so he wasn’t sure who was learning anything at that point.
We’re glad to have you here, and hopefully you’ll find econ more interesting as you go along!
(I’m guessing you’re drawing a lot of supply and demand curves? It ended when Becker died in 2014, but the Becker-Posner blog is still a good read that contextualizes a lot of econ stuff)
Only the very best teachers worry about it as much as you do. The shitty ones don’t care. You are doing great, even if it doesn’t feel like it yet. And my darling dear, we ARE the friends you deserve! Happy Thanksgiving to you, relax and enjoy the weekend.
It’s true, Jay Cutler really does seem like he’d be a terrible teacher.
Hang in there Fronk. Just remember, tax cuts for the 5% are good for the economy, and it’s extremely rude to ask why.
It’s just….
You got a provisional license? You could be like an AP Econ teacher here in AZ.
Does pay poverty wages but who ever said there’s such a thing as too much sunshine/heat?!
Stalin probably loved Thanksgiving, since he could instantly and permanently erase anyone from history that displeased him.
“This year I am especially thankful for my ability to purge the KGB, and for my ZIL-114 limo! To show my thanks I will send a couple extra turnips to all those university students I sent to the Gulags”
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Oh, the humanity!
Happy Thanksgiving, Glorious Kommentist Party! Is today the day the capitalist scum finally pay for their…[is distracted as TV turns itself on]…ooh, football!
Thanksgiving was 6 weeks ago you filthy degenerates
We should stop all this fussin’-and-a-feudin’ and simply celebrate two Thanksgivings.