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11-25-2009, 09:04 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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So what is everyone doing for Thanksgiving?
First off, I hope everyone has a fun, happy and safe day with loved ones. Remember, don't fry a frozen turkey.
We are hosting at our house for the second year in a row so I guess it is turning into a tradition, especially since my wife did such a great job cooking last year. Most of our group of friends aren't from here so we host it and they all come over. this year there will be eight of us. We start around noon, of course watch football then after the night game we put in a few Christmas movies and play board games until about 3 AM. Of course we all drink a lot off beers and everyone will likely spend the night. Really looking forward to it. |
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11-25-2009, 09:11 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Mother-in-law headed back to TN last weekend in order to do some more work on her old house, so it's just the three of us again this year. We finally decided on lunch at an old restored hotel in nearby Washington, GA. We aren't familiar with it at all, so it's kind of a coin toss how it'll turn out but sometimes you get lucky & find a good one, we'll see I guess.
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11-25-2009, 09:15 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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For the first time in several years, I'm not hosting. Last year, it was my cousin's high school girls basketball team that came over, when they were in Austin for a tournament. The year before I had a bunch of family members, as well as Antmeister, Lorena, and their kids. The year before that was another big group of family members that came down. And the year before that I got sent on a last minute trip to South Africa that scuttled any plans that may have been in place.
So my aunt and uncle that are in the area are hosting this year, and my mom and dad are coming down tomorrow evening bringing my two nieces as well for the weekend. We are heading down to visit another uncle that lives south of San Antonio on Saturday, and meeting up with more family members there. edit: and if I can get a fucking plumber to call me back, hopefully getting a new water heater installed to replace the one that died and flooded my closet and bathroom today.
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11-25-2009, 09:28 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Utah
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Im hopefully fixing the oven tomorrow...if not we are still eating...It will be just a bit different.
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11-25-2009, 09:30 PM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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heh, not a good day for the oven to break. |
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11-25-2009, 09:33 PM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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That's why I have a big ass grill, it can fill as a substitute in a pinch! 
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11-25-2009, 09:35 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Utah
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I have that as well...we just might have to grill if this doesn't work. The home we are renting is a circa late 50's home with some 70's upgrades. The oven is an antique and a collectors where no parts can be found anywhere, so I am hoping it's something simple when I pull it out of the wall.
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11-25-2009, 09:39 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The scorched Desert
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Will have all the kids (+ significant others) over, except Tony who could not get leave and is stuck in Virginia. I will be doing most of the cooking, which I actually enjoy. We will also be having one of my friends over who has no family here and one of my wife's friends (+ 2 kids) who moved here from Georgia a year ago and also has no other family here. Will be 12 of us total and we will of course be watching Football, playing darts, pool and probably Rock Band.
Have my mini Keg of Heineken chilled (actually enjoying it right now) and am looking forward to a relaxing day with friends and family. Happy Thanksgiving to all on FOFC and wishing you and yours all the best. |
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11-25-2009, 09:41 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Black Hole
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Sitting in Section 411 watching the Raiders beat the Cowboys.
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11-25-2009, 09:43 PM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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Don't you mean Section 8, if you expect the Raiders to beat the Cowboys? 
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11-25-2009, 09:49 PM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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I see you began drinking early. Have fun! |
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11-25-2009, 10:04 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Melbourne, FL
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Over at the in-laws in Miami, should be fun ... if I can get my work finished so I can get my head out of my laptop
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11-25-2009, 10:05 PM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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Dude, you are a Brit... You get a hall pass!
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11-25-2009, 10:33 PM
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Stadium Announcer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Burke, VA
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The in laws are coming down tomorrow, and then Friday we're going to NJ for my wife's high school reunion. Kind of sad that our oldest daughter can't make it home tomorrow, but at least she'll be here for Christmas.
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11-25-2009, 10:36 PM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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what part of Jersey Cam, if you don't mind me asking?
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11-25-2009, 10:38 PM
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Stadium Announcer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Burke, VA
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I guess it would be considered south central? Willingboro is where she went to school, but I'm not sure where the reunion is being held. All I know is the kids are staying with the grandparents and we get a night at a hotel.
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11-25-2009, 10:57 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Early, TX
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We'll be at home alone.
No family within 11 hours of here (other than wife's cousins in Seattle), and all of of our local friends are busy. Same thing as last year. I'm brining a turkey, and have a menu ready to cook tomorrow. I'll be drinking beer at 9 a.m. just to make it through the Lions game. Yeah, this should be super.
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11-25-2009, 11:01 PM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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I know where that is, near Philly. I grew up about 45 minutes from there. Have fun! |
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11-25-2009, 11:02 PM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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I'll come up. Friends don't let friends watch the Lions alone. |
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11-25-2009, 11:13 PM
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Hockey Boy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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Lady H_B and I were supposed to go to Cleveland for Thanksgiving. My mom's side of the family is from Cleveland, so I have a grandma, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. We've been going there every year since we moved back to Michigan.
Unfortunately, I got swine flued on Sunday. It was a brutal 3 days, but I got Tamiflu pretty quick and I'm feeling much better. On Monday night, however, I was so sick I couldn't even watch hockey, which, I think, means I was clinically dead there for a while. Anyway, no one wants someone with the flu coming over for Thanksgiving, so we canceled our plans and will be bunkering down to protect the world from my plague. It sucks because this is my favorite holiday and it's basically shot. Oh well, there's always next year.
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11-25-2009, 11:16 PM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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that sucks HB
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11-25-2009, 11:22 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego
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Well, since my wife left me and since everyone I know up here wher I am, is not from here and have been out of town since last Friday, I will be sitting at home, by myself, drinking as much beer as possible while trying to kill as many zombies in Left 4 Dead 2 as possible...I hope the bitch chokes.
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11-25-2009, 11:27 PM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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Good luck with all of that, especially the last part. |
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11-25-2009, 11:27 PM
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Hockey Boy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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Yeah. Thanks, man. It's not what I had in mind, but we'll make due. At least the Lions game will be on, right? Sadly, I will be watching that alone. The wife may pop in here and there, but everytime she stops in, she asks why do I watch the Lions, because it doesn't seem enjoyable at all. I have no answer for that. My dog wont even stay in the room with me because he can sense the frustration and that (and pretty much everything else in the world) makes him nervous. I can't drink beer yet because of the medicine I'm on. I don't have the warm, comforting bosom of the Red Zone Channel to escape to. I fear I am doomed...
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11-25-2009, 11:30 PM
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Hockey Boy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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Maybe I'll just watch this over and over and convince myself last week was the Super Bowl.
NFL Videos: Sound FX: Matthew Stafford mic'd up
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11-25-2009, 11:37 PM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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lol, I'm crying reading this. Even my wife thought it was funny, and in her cranky preggo state that is no small task. |
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11-25-2009, 11:49 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Bath, ME
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Our second year in the new house, new location, and we're hosting Thanksgiving again. My parents, my sister and niece, my aunt and cousins are coming down. My brother and other sister can't make it, so a smaller crowd than last year, but still sizable.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to take part in any of the prep. I'm actually still working as I type, trying desperately to get this project done so that I can actually take the holiday off. I'll probably sleep through it all at the rate I've been working 'til now. |
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11-25-2009, 11:57 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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It's actually going to suck to have a Lions game sans Megatron and Stafford. I mean, they were awful as it was, but now they are probably not worth watching.
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11-26-2009, 12:05 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego
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I'll do my best.
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11-26-2009, 01:13 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Sep 2005
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HB... Man. What can be said? Feel better. Hopefully the Pack pack it in without Al & Aaron (and the Lions only lose by 20.)
As for me, I'll be heading to a friend's place at noon. Got to get up early to start cooking my brown sugar honey yams with baby carrots. |
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11-26-2009, 01:15 AM
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College Prospect
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Buffalo,NY
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Family going to relatives, I'm staying put fighting an upper respitory infection along with an ear infection...yipee!
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11-26-2009, 01:21 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2005
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The landlord still being an ass? |
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11-26-2009, 01:21 AM
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Hockey Boy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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It's really too bad that the one nationally televised game this pretty horrible team has will be without it's only two interesting/exciting players. Both Stafford and Johnson were out the last time the Lions played Green Bay and it was every bit as dull and painful as you'd expect, a 26-0 shutout. Being at home really wont change that.
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11-26-2009, 01:26 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
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Football + sleeping in = holiday!
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11-26-2009, 01:59 AM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Michigan
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Honestly, having been to Cleveland, Swine Flu doesn't sound too terrible an alternative. I will be avoiding Royal Oak apparently, while going to my sisters during the day for football and food, then off to my girlfriends for dinner. Her dad is a former chef and does it right for Thanksgiving. Oh, and in between I am stopping by a cousins for a mid afternoon snack of deep fried Turkey. |
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11-26-2009, 02:08 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Great Northwest
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Going to in-laws for dinner, and then my parents for dessert. And then on Saturday we are cooking our own 1st Thanksgiving dinner and watching the USC vs UCLA game.
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11-26-2009, 02:32 AM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Austin, TX
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Kickin' it with Ant and the kids. I tried talking Ant into getting a Tofurky but he didn't want anything to do with it.
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11-26-2009, 02:45 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Early, TX
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I hope you're kidding about wanting an abomination like that.
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11-26-2009, 03:34 AM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Austin, TX
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Oh no, I was serious. Just wanted to try something a little different this year. Ant said I wouldn't like it either. Hey, ya never know unless ya don't try... right?
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11-26-2009, 07:53 AM
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College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Mom, Dad, Grandma, Brother and Sister-in-Law are on the way down for the weekend. Will be watching lots of of football all weekend long.
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11-26-2009, 08:23 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Utah
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The oven is beyond repair, looks like grilled Turkey today!
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11-26-2009, 09:16 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: New Jersey
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I slept in which was great. We are leaving in a few hours to go to Mrs. E's mother's house. Her mother, sister, and brother will be there. Should be a nice dinner. My only gripe is that none of them are football fans, so we'll be watching movies, but I'll deal with that. Her brother will be deploying to Afghanistan a few weeks later so it will be nice to have everyone together.
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11-26-2009, 09:42 AM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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I guess turduckens have gone mainstream. I saw ones for sale from two different companies at the grocery store yesterday.
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Thinkin' of a master plan 'Cuz ain't nuthin' but sweat inside my hand So I dig into my pocket, all my money is spent So I dig deeper but still comin' up with lint |
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11-26-2009, 10:07 AM
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College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
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I live in the next town over.
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11-26-2009, 10:23 AM
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High School JV
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Jersey
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Work and flying to Louisville. 11am eastern, so you better not get too drunk tonight so you can get up early and watch. Go RU!!
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11-26-2009, 10:25 AM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: A sports era long ago when everything didnt require a Nike logo
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 Im calling this chocolate heath bar cream cheese ball - Fat Kids Delight.    Adult beverages, food, and football. Throw in some sports bets for good measure. Enjoy it everyone!
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11-26-2009, 10:27 AM
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College Starter
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Roseville, CA
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My mother-in-law is in town for the week. Also, my wife's cousin and her boyfriend who are in college here are coming over. So, we'll have a full table and a lot of food. No turkey or ham this year, which may be a first for me. Very nice spread otherwise, though.
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11-26-2009, 10:30 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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Caught up on sleep which was totally awesome.
Going to my cousin's as we've done the last several years. Parents, sister (who also flew in yesterday), two cousins and a family friend. Not as big as the crowds we had in the day we hosted at our house, but still nice.
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11-26-2009, 11:29 AM
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College Starter
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Buffalo, NY
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We're hosting this year. It'll be eight adults and two kids. Bird is in the oven and ready to go for a 5pm dinner. Most of the cleaning is done.. just gotta mop the floors while the kids are napping.
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11-26-2009, 12:01 PM
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High School JV
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Northern California
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Everyone is coming to our place for the big dinner.....wish us luck. lol
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