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Thanks for thy present! None sweeter or better.

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Where to get your pie in San Diego

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James Thurber, Hunter Thompson, H.L. Mencken give thanks for new American president

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A Thanksgiving Poem

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Thanks for thy present! None sweeter or better.

The Pumpkin Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun, The vines of the gourd and the rich melon run, And the rock and the tree and the ...

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Where to get your pie in San Diego

“I say make the whole dinner a pie,” said my friend May when I asked for Thanskgiving pie suggestions. “Patton Oswalt may have been right about KFC’s Famous Bowls being ...

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James Thurber, Hunter Thompson, H.L. Mencken give thanks for new American president

SCENE: The Mencken dining room, Thanksgiving. In attendance are host Walter Mencken, English novelist Evelyn Waugh, writer and critic H.L. Mencken, Pogo Possum, Roman emperor Claudius, writer and humorist James ...

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A Thanksgiving Poem

The sun hath shed its kindly light, Our harvesting is gladly o’er Our fields have felt no killing blight, Our bins are filled with goodly store. From pestilence, fire, flood, ...

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A caveman Thanksgiving

“We soak cashews, swell them, and cream them down so that they act like a kind of cream cheese.”

November 16, 2016

Ask a Hipster Thanksgiving

The ideal hipster Thanksgiving

Here comes the “what yams actually are” lecture.

November 18, 2015

Sporting Box Thanksgiving

November 26, 2014

Thanksgiving as we know it

True greed has no end. Greed grows until something makes it stop. There will be three NFL games televised on Thanksgiving. Games run from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. According to a 2010 Wall Street ...

Sporting Box Thanksgiving

November 27, 2013

Two Thanksgiving POVs

Found on Mrs. Lambert’s (Nauvoo-Colusa Middle School) Social Studies web page: “The first Thanksgiving was not a feast, but rather a time when Native Americans helped Pilgrims by bringing them food and helping them build ...

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November 20, 2012

Thanksgiving Volunteering Opportunities in San Diego

My son recited a Gandhi quotation at dinner. “‘I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let ...

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November 14, 2012

Where to go for Thanksgiving turkey

"Don’t cook for Thanksgiving this year,” said Patrick’s mother. “You know what?” I answered. “I’m not going to fight you on that. It’s been a long year.” “So, where should we go? Our treat.” I ...

Literary and Spiritual Excerpts Thanksgiving

November 10, 2011

Official Proclamation of the First Thanksgiving

To all ye Pilgrims: Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, squashes, and garden vegetable, and has made the forest to abound with game ...

Sporting Box Thanksgiving

November 23, 2010

Thanksgiving Edition

Thanksgiving is thought of as family time. But, we all know Thanksgiving is more than family, bigger than family. Thanksgiving means the NFL is coming at you with three rock-’em sock-’em football games running from ...

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Wine for Thanksgiving

Hallelujah! I’m not cooking for Thanksgiving this year — the Kellys have gotten themselves invited to a monster gathering up north. When I asked what I could bring, they just said, “Wine, and lots of ...

November 17, 2010

Thanksgiving

Eat What the Politicians Feed You

This Thanksgiving, some Americans will be eating turducken, a turkey stuffed with duck that is in turn stuffed with chicken. It started commercially in Louisiana’s Cajun country about 25 years ago, spread to much of ...

November 25, 2009

Diary of a Diva Thanksgiving

November 25, 2009

This Is How It’s Supposed to Be

The kids chased each other around the coffee table in the living room while I helped carry food from the kitchen to the dining room. This is how it’s supposed to be, I thought. Sure, ...

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Thanksgiving

Thanks for thy present! None sweeter or better.

Where to get your pie in San Diego

James Thurber, Hunter Thompson, H.L. Mencken give thanks for new American president

A Thanksgiving Poem

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