Your Top Ten Thanksgiving Conversation Diverters

Will Oakland win another game this season? (I need to know)

Claim out loud, "I'm parched." (Checks glass. If not a third or less full, gulp the remaining drink). Ask if others want a refill.

Did you feel that? Its started.

I'm sorry to interrupt, but does your loo have a mega flush?

Are these sweet potatoes, or yams?

Why pope's nose????

Good one, Edgar.....I know people who will talk yams/sweet potato differentials until well into the night.

J0e(So, you are saying they are from two separate and distinct plants?)Nation

I think that 'pope's nose' might be considered a religious slur by some, especially my late brother, the priest.

And check this out:
http://dare.wisc.edu/words/WotM/pope%27s-nose

Joe(Can I get you more ham, rabbi?)Nation

I only know "pope's nose" from reading Joyce's Portrait of the Artist.

Yes, I wrote my dissertation on that topic.
Whoops, I thought I was going to fart, but that's no fart.

Nothing worse than having to ask, "Do farts ever have lumps in 'em?"

if you ask the right person, this question is good for the afternoon/evening


did you knit that?

this is my preferred mode

Ahhhhh, the holidays. I'll be so happy when there over.

Glitter(why do people become giant dicks between Thanksgiving and New Years) Bag

And of course the reliable "huh, I never heard that before"

Hold on a second, I need to adjust my hearing aid; I can still hear you.

Yes....

I was reminded last night that down in the Southern States upon hearing something disagreeable but not wanting to respond fully a person would simply look at the other, smile and say "Well, bless my soul."

Darn.

Joe(That wouldn't work for me.)Nation

There are several toasts that take me back to my childhood, which may come in handy for you today.

1. This was my Dad's favourite. "Here's to the man with one eye, who can't see out the other".

2. Another of his "May your socks be always full of feet"


3. From my Nan's Irish lodger..... "May you live to be a hundred, with one more year to repent."


and 4. From my Dad again "Here's to the good Lord Roberts, and my sister in the Navy"

I have absolutely no idea as to who Lord Roberts was, and my Dad never had a sister in the Navy, but we drank their health anyway.


CHEERS!

Allow me to explain to you the wonders of refrigeration.

Do you wanna hear how Hicksville got its name?