Morbid but Funny
A list of things not to buy a two-year-old
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/3HL4G7VMNOLXS/002-1193240-6943254?%5Fencoding=UTF8]
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Eric Scheske
PSA
Blogging could be light the next couple of days. I'll be spending time with
family. There will, however, be at least a few posts every day.
Kill Santa?
From a German spokesman for the efforts to rid us of Santa Claus
[http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1622369.html]:
> "St. Nicholas is not Father Christmas. The values associated with the former are
selflessness, charity, solidarity, giving and sharing. He is perfect for getting
across the
Brews You Can Use
Ah, I have fine company:
> There's no reason but snob appeal that wine shouldn't come in a box . . . .
[http://www.professorbainbridge.com/2005/11/boxed_wine.html]
Professor Stephen Bainbridge
His site points readers to a new container for boxed wine
[http://money.cnn.com/
11:00 p.m.
"Gratitude: The virtue by which a person acknowledges, interiorly and
exteriorly, gifts received and seeks to make at least some return for the gift
conferred." Fr. John Hardon
10:00 p.m.
"Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross
people." Samuel Johnson
9:00 p.m.
"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks." Shakespeare, Hamlet.
8:00 p.m.
Turkey for me
Turkey for you
Let's eat the turkey
In my big brown shoe
Love to eat the turkey
At the table
I once saw a movie
With Betty Grable
Eat that turkey
All night long
Fifty million Elvis fans
Can't be wrong
Turkey lurkey
7:00 p.m.
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and tha gratitude
is happiness doubled by wonder." G.K. Chesterton
6:00 p.m.
"Thanksgiving Day originated in New England when the Puritans realized they had
succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, instead of getting
exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians." Mark Twain