Strangely intriguing, disconnected ramble – the sounds of too much sauce with that turkey, but I like it!
Via NY Post:
“Gratitude is riches; complaint is poverty.” I read that somewhere.
“Better to give than receive.” I read that somewhere.
Day after Thanksgiving, stuff’s on sale. That I understand.
It’s a time to sit at a table with relatives who talk about themselves when you’re thinking of yourself.
It’s a time when, being polite, you ask your uncle how he feels — and he tells you.
On a normal evening you’d have a party just not to invite him.
It all began Sept. 6, 1620, when those Pilgrims sailed for the New World on the Mayflower. No iPads. No Xboxes. No men’s crotches grazing on the ground. No ladies boobs floating in the soup.
Starving upon arrival in Plymouth Rock was just one thought: Flee British oppression. Come to America and Obama’s oppression.
Dec. 11, 1620, the new settlers brought their bangers and mash, kidney pudding, fish and chips, pork scratchings and wild rabbit recipes into Plymouth. Quickly they saw burgers, fries, popcorn, peanut butter, mac ’n’ cheese, and knew they’d found heaven.
March 22, 1621, by the shores of Gitchie Goomie, by the shining big sea water, long before Kathleen Sebelius — may her tripe decrease — cooked up her mish mosh, harmony reigned.
Both sides of the woods came together. No congressional aisle then.
Nancy Pelosi’s hair colorist hadn’t even been born. No PETA yet, no anti-smoking yet so the chief schlepped out a buffalo robe, dragged out a peace pipe, passed around the wife’s maize hors d’oeuvres and the newcomers signed a treaty with the Wampanoags.
Autumn 1621, they invited Massasoit and his buddies to a three-day festival — long before Kerry schlepped to and from the Middle East bearing nothing but hair spray. The feast was to celebrate their bounty. How such a good harvest, not clear. This was long before the agricultural committees, surgeon general warnings, AMA regulations, Bloomberg fatso rulings, school dieticians, ban on salt and sugar and contaminated veggies were taken off the shelves.