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[Snake Eyes]

I want to wish a happy Thanksgiving to all my American countrymen, especially those separated from friends and family due to military service and deployment. For the rest, may there be football and turkey. My wife & I are heading over to my dad's place soon with a load of bacon-roasted Brussels sprouts and a couple of pies. We have much to be thankful for this year, as do I hope you all.

[Raellus]

Same to you, Snake. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! I'm thankful for this forum and all of the great people who populate it.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Watched football all day; nary a game blacked out by EMP. Around lunchtime I kept an eye out towards the Southwest, then later the north/northeast. No mushroom clouds over MacDill AFB, Patrick AFB or Cape Kennedy. Looks like we dodged another one.

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer

Watched football all day; nary a game blacked out by EMP. Around lunchtime I kept an eye out towards the Southwest, then later the north/northeast. No mushroom clouds over MacDill AFB, Patrick AFB or Cape Kennedy. Looks like we dodged another one.

Ditto Fort Bragg, Pope Army Air Field, Camp Lejune, Cherry Point, Seymour Johnson AFB. All quiet.

My $0.02

Mike

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Originally Posted by mikeo80

Ditto Fort Bragg, Pope Army Air Field, Camp Lejune, Cherry Point, Seymour Johnson AFB. All quiet.

My $0.02

Mike

Kinda makes you feel like Airman Daugherty at the end of WarGames, doesn't it?

"Jesus H. Christ, we're still here!"

Happy Thanksgiving, all.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Snake Eyes

My wife & I are heading over to my dad's place soon with a load of bacon-roasted Brussels sprouts and a couple of pies. We have much to be thankful for this year, as do I hope you all.

Best wishes to you all from the Land Down Under on your Thanksgiving celebrations. Snake, please elucidate on these "bacon-roasted Brussels sprouts". I'm a big fan of the Brussels sprout and those sound delicious.

[Snake Eyes]

Originally Posted by Targan

Best wishes to you all from the Land Down Under on your Thanksgiving celebrations. Snake, please elucidate on these "bacon-roasted Brussels sprouts". I'm a big fan of the Brussels sprout and those sound delicious.

So, it's basically Brussels sprouts, with the first layer peeled off then quartered. You spread them out on a cookie sheet, drizzle them liberally with bacon fat, sprinkle with salt & pepper and stick them in the oven on 400°F (sorry I don't have the °C conversion handy) adjusted for altitude and desired crispness. Alternately, you can save the first layer of leaves and throw them afterwards in the same way and make chips. Pretty damn tasty.

And, as far as I know, all the San Francisco area refineries here are still standing and operational.

[Legbreaker]

Is it worth noting the T2K attacks didn't actually happen until the day after Thanksgiving?
Give it time people...

[LAW0306]

I'm still alive!

[Targan]

I'm not certain you CAN be killed, Law. You're like a force of nature

[Graebarde]

Hope all of you had a great day. I know this turkey got stuffed. We had about 30 folks from the clan at my nephews. Three turkeys and a ham, though one turkey wasn't touched much, plus all the trimmings and a table full of pies, cakes, and sweets.

Of course this being Texas they were rooting on the Houston and Dallas teams.. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Lot of tounge biting on my part LOL. Dangerous when your out numbered over 20 to 1.

[Snake Eyes]

Originally Posted by Snake Eyes

So, it's basically Brussels sprouts, with the first layer peeled off then quartered. You spread them out on a cookie sheet, drizzle them liberally with bacon fat, sprinkle with salt & pepper and stick them in the oven on 400°F (sorry I don't have the °C conversion handy) adjusted for altitude and desired crispness. Alternately, you can save the first layer of leaves and throw them afterwards in the same way and make chips. Pretty damn tasty.

To clarify, that is 400°F/204°C for 15 minutes.

Originally Posted by Snake Eyes

And, as far as I know, all the San Francisco area refineries here are still standing and operational.

Another "Black Friday" in the hole and we're still here.

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Is it worth noting the T2K attacks didn't actually happen until the day after Thanksgiving?
Give it time people...

OK, if you insist....

It's now 11/24/12....

Still Here!!!

My $0.02

Mike

[Jason Weiser]

Saturday after, I am still here, no flashes and loud booms to the East and South East over the Pentagon and the White House. (Am living in Vienna these days Law and no, I don't think a puny thing like a Soviet nuclear warhead could kill him either. He'd just be like Radioactive Man from the Simpsons).

Did my Turkey Day festivities early. Namely because there was a death in my Stepfather's side of the family. His mom passed due to cancer and well, I knew them and was friendly, but not as close as he and mom were, so we did the day a week early and they left to be with the family. It's ok, I had a weekend alone to get other things done, like work on getting my new PC up to snuff and enjoying some other Chanukah presents. (It's a lot sooner than Xmas this year, next week in fact, but Amazon, Verizon and Fedex wait for no man).

I've got my health, a job I loive (evem if it pays boopkus), my friends, and a lot of time to paint and think these days, so, how in the hell CAN'T I be thankful? Plus, I have been doing more gaming than I can say yes to! Now all I need is a local RPG group that plays GURPS or T2K or Traveller and life could not be better.

Happy Holidays and to another averted TDM!

Jason

[Targan]

Yup, no mushroom clouds on the horizon here either. So I'll play Pink Floyd's "Two Suns in the Sunset" instead

[WallShadow]

Ok, so America got mangled on or around Thanksgiving Day. What then became of the Thanksgiving Holiday in Post-Kaboom American culture?

[Targan]

Originally Posted by WallShadow

Ok, so America got mangled on or around Thanksgiving Day. What then became of the Thanksgiving Holiday in Post-Kaboom American culture?

No doubt it would still be a holiday, just morphed into a day of memorial and remembrance.

[WallShadow]

Perhaps Targan, but I was curious specifically about the next 5-10 years immediately following the Massacre. Would anyone be celebrating, or avoiding all mention, or would some hardheaded patriots celebrate it in spite.

[kato13]

Like Columbus day and Christmas, I don't consider Thanksgiving to be a "patriotic" holiday. The actions celebrated were not done by Americans so they are really outside of what would be considered US-centric.

The 4th, Memorial day, and Veterans Day, would be the patriotic holidays IMO. I guess when I see flags flown it seems patriotic.

[rcaf_777]

Originally Posted by kato13

Like Columbus day and Christmas, I don't consider Thanksgiving to be a "patriotic" holiday.

Only if you’re looking at it as non-American or non-Canadian (Canada has it too)

In the US it originated as a harvest festival. Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789, after a proclamation by George Washington.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4078958.html

It has been celebrated as a federal holiday every year since 1863, when, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens," to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November.

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/...hes/thanks.htm

If you read the proclamation it becomes a very patriotic statement, Many Americans believe that Modern Sweet Potato Pie was invented for Thanksgiving after the US Civil War, since it called for Southern US Sweet Potato and Northern Maple Syrup.

In Canada we Celebrate this holiday to, as it was brought to Canada after the US War of Independence, however it’s time and what we were being thankful for has differ over the year. It was till 1879 that is became a Federal Holiday, and it was not till 1957 that is was finally moved to the second Monday in October. The ordinal US time of November conflicted with Remembrance Day.