It’s very important that old institutions keep our internet traditions alive, so thanks to the Powder Blue Satan for their work:
For those of you not aware of all internet traditions, background here. Shit. And for those of you wondering about the provenance of the phrase “aware of all internet traditions,” go here to Anne Laurie’s still awesome Lexicon.
NeenerNeener
Thanks for the reminder of the annual “Preznit Giv Me Turkee” post. Hard to believe it’s been 18 years since Dubya.
Raoul Paste
After only reading the title, I knew what was coming. It’s a classic
Another Scott
It’s always funny. The image quality is horrible, but that seems to be the canonical version. :-/
I was poking around and Atrios reminds us that the backstory has a horrible dimension as well.
TheAdvocate 2/4/2003.
:-(
Cheers,
Scott.
schrodingers_cat
I have started a new tradition of sharing my art.
Happy Thanksgiving
OzarkHillbilly
As one who is ignorant of most internet traditions, I’m really not getting this one. I understand it, but like a lot of jokes, I just don’t get it. One must’ve had to have been there.
OzarkHillbilly
@schrodingers_cat: That’s cool.
frosty
@schrodingers_cat: Very nice! The colors are certainly in keeping with the season.
Another Scott
Speaking of blasts from the past that have continued relevance today (I believe this has been mentioned in earlier threads, but the quote is good)…
(via eclecticbrotha)
Cheers,
Scott.
rikyrah
I love the spirit of this ?
Throw them and their luggage off at the next stop.
Wanna not comply with the rules…FAAFO ?
Scott Bixby (@scottbix) tweeted at 5:32 AM on Wed, Nov 24, 2021:
Amtrak’s message about mask compliance is not messing around: “Remember — any stop can be yours.”
(https://twitter.com/scottbix/status/1463470490459291648?s=03)
rikyrah
@schrodingers_cat:
Love it ?
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: As someone who just made Amtrak reservations for Christmas travel, I heartily approve of this.
tom
Bringing together both Thanksgiving and a couple of earlier Michigan-centric BJ posts, may I present my friend David Erik Nelson’s In Michigan, A Primer, A Travelogue.
NeenerNeener
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s not a joke; it’s a sad commentary on media behavior around Republican presidents.
MelissaM
Thank you for reminding me of the original “I am aware of all internet traditions” post. That was hilarious.
Lexicon issue: When you hit a letter in the alphabet to go to that section, it quickly takes you to that letter section, then bops you back to the beginning.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Another Scott
@tom: That is really excellent.
:-)
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
japa21
@rikyrah:
Why wait until the next stop? When the train is going over a bridge would be a good time.
Another Scott
@schrodingers_cat: That’s one strutting beastie! :-)
Excellent. Thanks for sharing.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, too, and to all the jackals and jackal-adjacent!
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@MelissaM:
Hmm. I just went to the lexicon, chose ‘R’ and it took me to R. And left me there. There was no bopping. :-( What letter did you choose?
HinTN
@NeenerNeener: Turkee goes well with cocktail weenies.
And just on general principles, FTFNYT.
lowtechcyclist
Hey now, how can we be aware of all Internet traditions if people keep starting new ones? ;-)
Happy Thanksgiving back atcha!
jeffreyw
Non-trad thanksgiving dinner:
For the twitterless.
debbie
I wonder what preznit would giv today’s meedea?
Nicole
@schrodingers_cat: Very nice! I love dragons. :)
Scout211
@Another Scott:
Did you read the Rolling Stone article?
I read the whole thing yesterday and came away with lots of mixed feelings. It felt like the author had some hidden agendas and almost seemed as though he was writing an article about how Winner was exploited by The Intercept but the article itself seemed, well, kind of exploitive. I wonder if anyone else had that impression. It’s just a sad, sad story. I hope she can bounce back.
But in response to the quote you cited, GG had a typical comeback: It’s all Bill Clinton’s fault!
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
Dragons are so cool. Love this one.
opiejeanne
@rikyrah: Awesome!
Getting on the train @ 9:30am today, so that is encouraging.
MelissaM
@WaterGirl: I chose I, for “internet tradtions.” Maybe my ‘puter?
brendancalling
Happy Turkee Day.
I got my booster yesterday, and have mainly been in bed sleeping ever since. I feel a bit better this AM, but a little discomfort is worth not winning a Herman Cain Award.
if I’m up to it, I’m dropping by some friends later for Friendsgiving. If not, well the new season of “Big Mouth” just dropped on Netflix.
Another Scott
Dean Baker at CEPR – Being Thankful this Thanksgiving:
It’s a good, thoughtful piece (as Baker’s stuff always is). Click on over.
Cheers,
Scott.
khead
Man I’m old. Happy Thanksgiving jackals. All your base are belong to us.
OzarkHillbilly
@NeenerNeener: I never said it was a joke. I said that “like a lot of jokes, I just don’t get it” but in this case it’s the relevance I’m not getting.
Scuffletuffle
@jeffreyw: Dear God, that looks soooo delicious!!!
Another Scott
@Scout211: I’m kinda in the “rooting for injuries” camp when it comes to RS vs The Intercept. (I was rightfully pointed out, here, as being naive and credulous about the RS story “A Rape on Campus”). Glem is pathological.
Winner was definitely a pawn in too many people’s agenda. I hope she can bounce back.
Cheers,
Scott.
WereBear
Feeling gratitude today. There is reason to hope. I ask for no more ? and wish everyone the same!
NeenerNeener
@OzarkHillbilly: It goes back to Dubya sneaking into Iraq for photo ops of him slicing and passing out turkey to the troops. That post mocking the media was Atrios’ response, and he’s been posting it on Thanksgiving every year for about 18 years now.
WereBear
Happy Thanksgiving to all. Mr WereBear is related to this tribe via his grandmother. May our honoring include the RtD community :)
https://akwesasne.travel/our-stories/thanksgiving-address/
Ohio Mom
Making good headway on dinner. Our only guest will be Ohio MIL, who has been a royal pain of late — too long a story, suffice it to say, narcissism and the age-related erosion of verbal filters don’t mix well.
Oh well. I still get to eat stuffing, my favorite of the traditional dishes.
brendancalling
@NeenerNeener: IIRC the turkey was fake too, a prop.
Benw
Happy thanksgiving everyone!
Now to decide: Mario Party or Catan?
jeffreyw
@Scuffletuffle:
I was just kidding, that was thanksgiving eve dinner. I have a roasted chicken, green bean casserole, mac and cheese, cranberries, sticky sweet potatoes, and dressing either cooking or in the warmer. Pumpkin and apple pie for dessert.
MagdaInBlack
@jeffreyw: That sounds just perfect. Enjoy ?
oatler
@SiubhanDuinne:
Smaug was a jerk. I prefer LeGuin’s dragons: inscrutable, occasionally homicidal but full of wisdom.
frosty
@tom: This was good, occasionally a little gruesome. I sent it to my Michigan cousins to see if they’ll recognize any of it.
“The door is about four steps away. In Michigan you’d drive it if you could.”
narya
I got boosted Tuesday, and by noon or so yesterday, was feverish and tired. Finally logged out of work around 2:30 and sat in My Chair and drank tea and watched TV, and . . . by 11:30, the fever was gone. I went to bed and woke up this morning, feeling pretty good. I’ve made the pumpkin seed brittle and the pumpkin brûlée, and the crackers are waiting to be rolled out & baked. I’ve changed the second dessert (because of course I have) and I’m going to make some hazelnut japonais, top that with some hazelnut/ginger mousseline (basically, pastry cream with other stuff), and the put the poached pears on top of that. We’ll see if the energy lasts. There are a few more people/households than I would have wanted, but I also didn’t have the heart to say no, and everyone is vaxxed and several are boosted, so . . . it’s probably okay. What’s sorta funny is that if it were completely up to me I wouldn’t do anything at all–but it’s important to my friend/neighbor, and I feel like we should all take care of each other in whatever ways we can. And, really, it’s fun to make desserts for others, and the food and company will be lovely, so I’m not exactly sacrificing, just anxious, and probably more anxious than I need to be.
I’m so grateful for this space! I’m grateful for science. I’m grateful that I’ve been able to work from home for 18 months and counting, and I’m grateful for my team. I’m grateful that my parents have been able to survive this so far. I’m grateful for friends and the resources to have good food. I’m extraordinarily fortunate, all things considered. And I’m grateful to all of you. Even when folks disagree vehemently and even if things sometimes get snippy, people here try to respect the space, and I truly appreciate the variety of opinions, even the ones w/ which I disagree. Thanks to John, and WaterGirl, and Anne and Betty and Adam, and all you commenters; you make my life better.
jonas
@NeenerNeener:
Wasn’t there a NYT reporter who had annoyed the press secretary with his noted lack of toadying and subsequently wasn’t included on W’s super-secret Thanksgiving trip to Iraq where he was received like the second coming of both Jesus and Alexander the Great? I forget who it was, but this was Atrios’s response to both the MSM’s fawning adoration for Bush and his flight suit codpiece-style of presidenting as well as the press office’s petty politics.
BigJimSlade
Happy thanksgiving everyone!
Yeah, Anne Laurie’s lexicon is great – I found that and went through it a couple years ago – what a stroll down memory lane (even if it brings back some of that anger, too – like the press having to kiss Bush’s ass, or no preznit give me turkee).
SiubhanDuinne
@oatler:
Fafner was a jerk, too. A fratricidal jerk.
NeenerNeener
@jonas: Sounds right, but I can’t remember who it was.
mrmoshpotato
@schrodingers_cat: That dragon is happy to see someone. Very cool.
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly: Didn’t GWB serve a turkey in Iraq? The form says the journalist didn’t get to go to Iraq because they asked a hard question. So presumably if they’d gotten to go to Iraq with GWB, he would have given them turkee.
zhena gogolia
@jeffreyw: I couldn’t get a turkey breast, so I’m going to use the turkey rub on some chicken for our post-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving. (Our friend always serves goose, so we like to have turkey afterwards, but our local Stop & Shop is now like a Moscow gastronom circa 1991.)
Salt Creek
@NeenerNeener: It wasn’t even a real turkey, it was plastic, it was fake. A perfect metaphor describing the Gulf War. The casualties weren’t fake but everything else was.
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne:
@oatler:
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBZWyRrrsZI
Repatriated
@SiubhanDuinne: But Fafblog was good (since we’re reminiscing about Blogtopia and all).
oatler
@SiubhanDuinne:
Fafner was bad but not forced-to-read-Beowulf-in-high-school bad.
trollhattan
The form is frealz from the Bush II WH? Mind = boggled but only a Trump can sand off the rough edges of the monstrous boulder of awfulness that was the reign of the 43rd “president.” Thanks again, Supreme Court, and I do not mean to imply I am today giving thanks for you in your current form. Wait for Festivus.
trollhattan
@Salt Creek: Paul Ryan took a chapter from the Bush playbook and mimed cleaning a clean pot for the cameras. Man of the people.
OGLiberal
This is a happy story but also very sad. I know this happens all the time without this ending, this one just got headlines because of the celeb victim. The subject of the story is also a victim, of course: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/11/24/us/anthony-broadwater-alice-sebold-rape-exoneration/index.html
Also, kind of related, I read that the former prosecutor in the Arbery district got arrested. Good.
Brachiator
@jeffreyw:
RE: Non-trad thanksgiving dinner:
Mmm! Sounds delicious. A welcome addition to any Thanksgiving feast.
James E Powell
@trollhattan:
We have so many to thank for the Bush/Cheney Junta: FTFNYT, Nader, Palm Beach County Democratic Party, stupid American voters who thought Bush wanted to have a beer with them, and many more. I’m never going to get all the way over it.
NotMax
@oatler
Know from when first brought it up that at least one other person here was also charmed by R A. MacAvoy’s Tea with the Black Dragon. Although cannot say whether or not the passage of years since its initial publication has been kind to it.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@schrodingers_cat: That’s beautiful!
matt the somewhat reasonable
@Scout211: That guy lies like normal people breathe.
The bill moved through Congress on a legislative fast track and met with overwhelming approval in both houses of the Republican-controlled Congress. On July 12, 1996, with only 65 Democrats and then Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Steve Gunderson (R-WI), in opposition, 342 members of the U.S. House of Representatives—224 Republicans and 118 Democrats—voted to pass DOMA.[21][22] Then, on September 10, 1996, 84 Senators—a majority of the Democratic Senators and all of the Republicans—voted in favor of DOMA.[23][24] Democratic Senators voted for the bill 32 to 14 (with Pryor of Arkansas absent), and Democratic Representatives voted for it 118 to 65, with 15 not participating. All Republicans in both houses voted for the bill with the sole exception of the one openly gay Republican Congressman, Rep. Steve Gunderson of Wisconsin.[24][25]
While his stated position was against same-sex marriage, Clinton criticized DOMA as “unnecessary and divisive”,[26] and his press-secretary called it “gay baiting, plain and simple”.[27][28] However, after Congress had passed the bill with enough votes to override a presidential veto,[28] Clinton signed DOMA.
matt the somewhat reasonable
Greenwald is such a lying sack of shit.
However, after Congress had passed the bill with enough votes to override a presidential veto,[28] Clinton signed DOMA.
James E Powell
@oatler:
I liked Beowulf in high school.
Feathers
Here is a thread of West African alternative Thanksgiving dishes. I like to go trad for the holidays, but Nigerian Smoked Turkey and Cinnamon Plantain Cake may get a tryout. Link
rikyrah
@Another Scott:
Reality was betrayed by them?
oatler
@James E Powell:
Lubberwort!
NotMax
@James E Powell
GreaseGeats is the word!;)
Ruckus
@Salt Creek:
I wonder how many wars through out history this could be said about….
I imagine the number is just a bit above zero. OK quite a bit.
SiubhanDuinne
@James E Powell:
I did too. Still do, for that matter.
jeffreyw
Kelly
Mrs Kelly and I are having a quiet day by ourselves. When my oldest sister married way back in the mid 1970’s my Mom decided to simplify her children’s lives and said go to your in-laws family gathering on Thanksgiving and Christmas we’ll get together the Saturday after. Mrs Kelly decided this is a good tradition extended it to our kids.
Mrs Kelly cooked our turkey yesterday over lump charcoal in our Kamodo Joe bbq. Weather forecast was more favorable for outdoor cooking yesterday. Had a tasty dinner from it last night and I’ll walk a bit of it over to Mom’s house today.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Hm. Wonder if dragon tastes like chicken?
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Tastes like rattlesnake (which tastes like chicken).
West of the Rockies
@Ohio Mom:
As Shirley Jackson said, “Hell is other people. “
Ken
@Ruckus: Jenkins’ ear was cut off, Griffin’s pig was shot, and Remontel’s pastry shop was looted. So there have been at least three wars with real causes.
SiubhanDuinne
@Kelly:
Initially read this as Mom decided to simplify her children’s livers.
James E Powell
@SiubhanDuinne:
I was all excited when Seamus Heaney’s translation came out. My friends were running for cover.
Kelly
@SiubhanDuinne: ?
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Another pilot which didn’t get a green light:
Dr. Kondo, Hepatobiliary Surgeon.
206inKY
The “Jane Hamshers of the Left” entry in the lexicon is something else. Did not realize this blog went through a phase of defending the vile hatemonger Ben Domenech.
drunkenhausfrau
I feel like I aged 20 years from 2016 to now… This post feels like another lifetime entirely.
Thankful for this community…
prostratedragon
@WereBear: Hey, me too — great-grandmother.
Omnes Omnibus
@206inKY: How unaware of Cole’s history are you?
Miss Bianca
I’m sorry, but “preznit give me turkee” will never not make me laugh. A true holiday classic. Happy T-Day, jackals!
JoyceH
@oatler: Have you read Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series? It’s the Napoleonic Wars – with dragons.
Eunicecycle
@JoyceH: Are there going to be more adventures of Mary Bennet?
Ladyracterinok
@NotMax:
I loved that book. The sequels were not very good or at least not as good as the original.
JoyceH
@Eunicecycle: I’m trying very hard to become unstuck. Currently working on Mary Bennet and the Haunting of Longbourn, it’s been slow going but I seem to be picking up speed, so fingers crossed. I’ve also been working on a really massive whole house declutter and that seems to help.
trnc
I’m surprised that Cleek’s Law isn’t in the lexicon.
James E Powell
Reading through the lexicon is like reading a political history of 21st century America.
WaterGirl
@MelissaM: “I” stayed put for me also. Hmmm.
WaterGirl
@trnc: Seems like that should be in there. I wonder if Cleek’s law became law after the Lexicon was written.
jimmiraybob
Who? Checks notes. I believe it was Sidney Blumenthal’s blog. (see “all internet traditions.”)
Happy Turkee Day Everyone.
trnc
@WaterGirl: I hereby nominate Cleek’s Law as an amendment to the Balloon Juice Lexicon.
Soprano2
@James E Powell: Me either, I will never say Bush was anything but appointed by the SCOTUS to his first term. There were way too many irregularities and Republican officials deciding everything in Bush’s favor for me to ever consider it legit.
WaterGirl
@trnc: It should definitely be in there!
Anne Laurie had plans to update the Lexicon (a big job!) after the site rebuild. But her Covid beat takes a lot of time, so I suspect we won’t see a Lexicon update until Covid is beaten back.
oatler
@Ken:
In Pynchon’s “Mason and Dixon” Mason visits the jar holding Jenkins’ ear and whispers the wish that Dixon has a safe journey while at sea and Dixon hears it