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[A favorite website (history.com) has ten questions for this special day. We will share five today and five tomorrow] 1. Fact or Fiction: Thanksgiving is held on the final Thursday of November each year. Fiction. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln designated the last Thursday in November as a national day…

Weather Report: Turkeys will thaw in the morning, then warm in the oven to an afternoon high near 190F. The kitchen will turn hot and humid, and if you bother the cook, be ready for either a severe squall or cold shoulder. During the late afternoon and evening, the cold…

10. To Kill a Walking Bird 9. My Best Friend’s Dressing 8. The Texas Coleslaw Massacre 7. Casserolablanca 6. 12 Hungry Men 5. Silence of the Yams 4. For Love of the Game Hen 3. White Meat Can’t Jump 2. When Harry Met Salad and the Number 1 Thanksgiving-Themed Movie……

[The turkey does not refer to the holiday, but rather the riddles! Pretty lame, but hey, I’ve got a house overrun with 4 grandkids and it is still 4 days until Thanksgiving!] Q. What do you get when you cross a turkey with a banjo? A. A turkey that can…

[Traced this back – credit (I think) to Marybeth Hicks of the Washington Times] Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?” As a culture columnist, I’ve commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement”…

[CSR reminded me of some “laws” to which we are all subject, even though they will not be found on any tablets of stone. We adapted some, and are stunned by the validity of them all] Law of the Turkey – When getting the bits and pieces of meat off…

Grandkids are coming and my camera is broken. Trying not to have a negative attitude, so I’ll take it to the repair shop and see what develops. Give it my best shot. My photos are always bad, so some think I broke it on purpose. The truth isn’t so black…

If you have kleptomania, what’s the best thing to take for it? If you don’t pay your exorcist can you be repossessed? Are cardboard belts just a waist of paper? If an astronaut broke the law of gravity would he get a suspended sentence? When a clock is hungry, does…

[Only five days until I get to spoil four grandkids rotten. But we will have a mandatory question/answer time to be certain they inherited grandpa’s warped humor] Q: What type of book would a criminal write that explained how he couldn’t have committed the crime? A: An alibiography. Q: Which…

[LK thought I’d like this. She was right] A new business was opening and one of the owner’s friends wanted to send him flowers for the occasion. They arrived at the new business site and the owner read the card, “Rest in Peace.” The owner was angry and called the…

[RM, an old cruise friend, sent this timely reminder] You know, time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years. It seems just yesterday that I was young, just married and embarking on my new life with my mate. And yet in a way,…

Lots of interesting odds and ends came across my desk the past five days and caused me to note all the events in recent history. Will give you the hard parts, the EVENT and DATE – but can you figure out the YEAR? On some, getting the correct decade would…

THE CREATION STORY (Bible According to Snoopy) On the first day of creation, God created the dog. On the second day, God created man to serve the dog. On the third day, God created all the animals of the earth (especially the horse) to serve as potential food for the…