What Month is It?

Halloween is the new Thanksgiving. Everything seemed to start up on November 1st.

I could swear I saw christmas items in my drugstore just before halloween.... my drugstore, the revolving sales opportunity.

by december 1st, people will be taking sledgehammers to their radios...

Have a holly jolly christmas everyone.

Ha! I remember seeing some Christmas crap in October in some stores here!!

There is a commercially inspired connspiracy to totally discredit Thanksgiving.Its merely a center point of the Holiday calendar. It markes the time when everyone must begin to panic because its Thanksgiving and they havent bought anyones love yet. Think about it, Thanksgiving is a holiday with absolutely no pretentions other than pack gluttony. Around here, people decorate their houses for HAlloween as much as they do for Christmas so , while theyre taking down their Halloween decorations, they put up Christmas lights. Its all been pre planned by the lighting manufacturers.

Thanksgiving doesnt represent what we really stand for. Its not competitive or festooned with unrealistic expectations. Even if (whoever is having the dinner that year) the turkey comes out bad, people still eat it as if they were gnoshing on a wildebeest that the packleader brought down. They critique it later, while everyone else sleeps over a bunch of boring College Foosball games.

Halloween and Christmas however, have been implanted with all sorts of commercial possibilities that a small commercial business"s entire year can be made in those 2 days alone. Im sure if there were a way to massively commercialize Thanksgiving it would have been done already.

BTW, color has a lot to do with the commercial viability of anything. Whats the color we associate with Thanksgiving? brown! hardly a celebratory festive color. Its the col,or of dying leaves and forest duff. Its the withering grass and stark tree trunks.

I was thinking about that while I ate my oatmeal, I guess Ill shut up before I say anything really embarrassing .

You sound like you'd be a hoot at the dinner table. You could point out to us as we cut our meat that holding our forks with our left hands and cutting with the right is a classist conceit.

So not embarrassing, farmer...

I have this uneasiness, in that, to me, the christmas hoopla and halloween extravaganza are sucking energy from other possible life enrichment - well, that's when I look at the aisles in Walgreen's. On the other hand (here I go again), I like festivals in many ways, and I think gifts don't have to be mostly love-buying. For the last bunch of years, I just have let it all go and watch, and I'm getting less crabby about it all, coming back from very crabby.

gargle-breath

You have me totally confused with someone else. I was always the one who would launch peas at somebody with my spoon. I have no idea about etiquette. Ive lived in so many countries where people dip their crusty hands into a community bowl to eat and if youre invited to join in , that was an honor. I can flip my chopsticks like a drum major in between taking food. This trick really pisses off my wife, but my son has taken it to an extreme level . He can do both chopsticks in different fingers of the same hand. A thing of beauty to behold.


Another pet peeve. Silver should never be used for utensils, its a toxic metal, so I like the Swedish stainless with modern designs. Our silver is mostly for show and my wife collects old silver soup ladles that have nautical designs, so obviously, her collection isnt too large.



Do you like your gravy in a little pond in your mashed taters or do you just like yer gravy poured over the top and dribbling around.

In Turkmenistan, it is the month of Sanjar..

Peas were made to be launched, chopsticks to be twirled, and mashed potatoes to hold ponds of gravy.

Ooooh, I like a man who speaks his mind!

Please, I could read this all day! :wink: