MetaFilter posts tagged with thanksgiving

Four Acts in Four Rooms

silby — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:27:11 -0800

Thanksgiving at Dan and Jane's by Dave Eggers. [Lech, 6, under the table, pretends to be dead, in a coffin raised over the heads of hysterical mourners.]

Take the Skizin Off.

gman — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:17:25 -0800

Gettin' mashed with Snoop and Martha. SLYT

Turkey Day ---} Techie Day

Miko — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:17:34 -0800

It's a geek Thanksgiving! On Here & Now, Instructables' Christy Canida shares tools for organizing Thanksgiving dinner - Gantt chart, purchasing calculator, kitchen workstation for workflow management, stastical analysis of turkey cooking, and more. You'll also find results of their Take Thanksgiving to the Next Level contest, like the giant fractal pecan pie, the 20-sided pie-cosahedron, and the recirculating gravy fountain.

No, No, Nostalgia!

not_on_display — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:33:56 -0800

NetClassixFilter: The next time you're standing clueless in the greeting cards section of your local drugstore franchise, you'll be wishing you'd visited the Gallery of Unfortunate Greeting Cards instead. For all your holiday needs: Val en tin e's Day, St. Pat ric k's Day, E a s t e r, We dd in gs, 4th of July, Hal lo we'en, Bi rt h d a y s, Th anks giv ing, Ch ri st ma s, and of course, Washington's Birthday. [via Cap'n Wacky] Cap'n Wacky has previously sailed the seas of MetaFilter.

A bear walks into a bar and says to the barman

growabrain — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:32:46 -0800

Thanksgiving dinner with Brutus the Bear. (First link YT. Via Friday fish wrap)

Thanks for the Laughs

wendell — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:38:20 -0800

Since the passing of Art Buchwald (previously on MeFi), we're looking for something to replace his traditional Thanksgiving Humor Piece (seen here), with varying success. MeFi's Own rstevens has a collection of LOLGRIMS, MeFi's own Lore offers some catering services for the 21st Century (featuring the next step in Turducken evolution). Formerly MeFi's Own Lileks has a cheap video on how to make a cheap Thanksgiving dinner. A faux-conservative blogger (who's no Colbert) suggests renaming the holiday. The "Creatures in My Head" guy has his own disturbing version of a turkey. A video game site has games that (kinda) fit the holiday. A semi-NSFW site for dudes has the Worst Thanksgiving Dishes (not sexist, but PETA-ist and NPR-ist) But the most obvious Thanksgiving tradition (via YouTube) is the WKRP Turkey Drop (and aftermath). Also, 23 Things That Sound Dirty At Thanksgiving, But Aren't ("It's Cool Whip time!"), The Naughty American (NSFW) suggests substituting "envy" for "thanks", and a Thanksgiving Horror Story that may or may not be a piece of really dark humor. Funny Thanksgiving crafts include a knit turkey hat and a centerpiece made from tampons. Better-than-most comics about cranberries, stuffing and stuffing again. And for the convenience of commenters in this thread, Thanksgiving ASCII Art! (with obnoxious MIDI sound, no surprise).

Traditional

puddnhead — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:41:25 -0800

A Thanksgiving Prayer.

Chew On This

forallmankind — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:50:00 -0800

Chew On This. Take a deep breath, swallow hard, and follow the food you eat on its day-long journey through the digestive system.

Gobble-Gobble!

ba — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:08:56 -0800

It's Turkey Time! (mp3) And this song is playing in my head, over and over... Special Music by Special People is a program of the Chicago Park District for children, teens, and adults with developmental disabilities (such as Down syndrome). Participants in the program use music - through performances, song writing and music writing - as creative and social outlets.

Gobble Gobs of Gobbler

rouftop — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:59:42 -0800

How to carve a turkey to get the most meat out: A butcher takes on a cooked turkey. (6.5 minute video, following a 15 second ad.)

Homebrew Chef

grateful — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:45:18 -0800

Cook Thanksgiving Dinner with Beer-Based Recipes Oh, and don't forget to stock your fridge with the recommendations listed in "Beer Pairings for Thanksgiving Dinner". Happy Turkey Day!

Who knew we had a National Helium Reserve?

selfmedicating — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:48:50 -0800

Worldwide helium shortage results in pricey Thanksgiving Day Parades. Was selling off the National Helium Reserve a mistake, or was PJ O'Rourke right in calling the reserve "Amazingly stupid, even by Government standards"?

Preparing a turkey the MANLY way

spock — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:00:50 -0800

Preparing a turkey the MANLY way. Naturally, one of them involves a lot of bacon.

Just when you thought it was safe to order the appetizer

jason's_planet — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:09:16 -0800

OK, I’ve been a good American. I’ve done the turkey and stuffing routine for more than three decades now. But next year is gonna be different. Next year I shall celebrate Thanksgiving by flying out to Iceland, where I intend to harpoon a big ugly shark. My friends and I will then bury the bugger in a gravel pit. After several weeks, it’ll be good and rotten. Then we’ll hang the strips of meat up to dry. When it’s ready, we’ll slam down some shots of the local liquor and consume dainty little cubes of fermented shark flesh. We’ll finish the feast with pumpkin pie.

Mmmm... pecans...

math — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:28:16 -0800

A Pie-cosahedron and instructions on how to make it. Hint: start with lots of Karo syrup, some sheet metal, and plenty of time. That's not good enough? Try the fractal pie, baked in its own custom-made backyard oven! These both came from the wonderful site, instructables, which will reward you with many fun projects that you might even be able to do yourself.

Life Can't Imitate Art (Buchwald)

wendell — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:09:33 -0800

Thankful to be alive (prematurely eulogized here), Art Buchwald presents his classic (and ever-more politically incorrect) Explaining Thanksgiving to the French column, written in the early 1950's and reprinted every year with varying introductions. Vive Le Kilometres Deboutish!

Your Turkey Day Side Dish

wendell — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:44:50 -0800

To go along with all these turkey posts, Cranberries are good for you. And the people who sell them aren't your usual agribusiness(pdf). (As for that canned cranberry sauce... we've discussed it before.) And they've got a blog! Ooops... I mean bog. Hey, this ain't Pepsi Blue.

Suddenly, turkeys, hundreds of them!

brownpau — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:46:51 -0800

Hundreds of hand-drawn turkeys. Teaching assistant for a Psych class is on copier duty: multiple-page midterm for a class of over 700. Appends "Draw a turkey" to the last page of the test. Here are the results. Gobble. [via mefi projects]

Talking Turkey

PreacherTom — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:09:00 -0800

Talking Turkey Thanksgiving for those in the $1.5 billion turkey business is as insane as Black Friday for retailers and Christmas for ministers. Ever wonder what a day in the life of getting your favorite bird is like? By the way, your average run-of-the-mill Butterball ain't the only game in town anymore. Do you prefer free-range or antibiotic-free turkey? Fine. How about the Heritage Turkey: a behemoth that boasts the ability to actually fly, looks like a B-1 Bomber on the wing, and has darker, more succulent gourmet meat. It never hurts to have any pictures, either. Happy Thanksgiving!

Here turkey, turkey!

i_am_a_Jedi — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:28:22 -0800

How to harvest a turkey. [via Make]

100-Mile Diet

Miko — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:56:42 -0800

How Much Fossil Fuel Does Your Dinner Burn? Ingredients for the average American meal travel well over 1500 miles to reach your plate. Our food might be inexpensive, but it's costing the planet a lot (and doesn't taste so hot either, since it's bred to withstand shipping and have long shelf life rather than to taste good). So what happens when people reject the large-scale industrial food system? One recent development in the growing localism movement is the 100-Mile Diet, originated by a Canadian couple who spent a full year eating only foods grown or raised within 100 miles of their home. They'll even give you a road map to having a 100-Mile Thanksgiving. For other variations on the eat-local idea, check out ideas like the Eat Local Challenge, Slow Food, and Locavores encourage you to rediscover your place on earth, build community, and enjoy the Local Harvest.

Giant M&M on Turkey Day Rampage

XQUZYPHYR — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:52:39 -0800

Balloon crashes and injures two people at Macy's Parade. A giant M&M balloon broke loose in the wind and crashed into a light pole at yesterday's Thanksgiving Parade in New York, knocking the light into a crowd and injuring two people. NBC, the network broadcasting the parade, was the only news crew that did not report the event, instead, cutting to a clip of the balloon from last year.

vindicated!

Tryptophan-5ht — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:38:54 -0800

turkey tryptophan wont make you sleepy

Will the real Thanksgiving please stand up?

j-urb — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:49:20 -0800

Thanksgiving sucks. The English went on setting fire to wigwams of the village. They burned village after village to the ground. As one of the leading theologians of his day, Dr. Cotton Mather put it: "It was supposed that no less than 600 Pequot souls were brought down to hell that day." And Cotton Mather, clutching his bible, spurred the English to slaughter more Indians in the name of Christianity.

Thanksgiving Buzzword Bingo

FeldBum — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:19:47 -0800

Thanksgiving Dinner Buzzword Bingo helps make tonight's dinner with family a little more palatable. Print out cards for you and your other cool relative (spouse, sibling) and check off a box every time one of these situations happens. First to get 5 in a row wins. Remember to shout "Bingo!" at the table.