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Post-Thanksgiving Open Thread


by: Karl-Thomas Musselman

Sun Nov 29, 2009 at 06:58 AM CST


So yes, we took most of the holiday off here at Burnt Orange Report. There is still another day of it so let's just chat in the comments. What did you do for Thanksgiving? Did you participate in the after Thanksgiving Day sales and if so, any prize purchases?
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Waving to all you Burnt Orange folks (0.00 / 0)
waving from a snowy and windy place north of Montana. I had a big ol' turkey and a visit from our offspring (1). Then yes, Friday we shopped with impunity.  
Hugs to all my favorite writers at the Burnt Orange Report who keep me up on the news in Texas.  I will catching my plane south mid month to check on the lemon trees I planted in October. Whoo hoo!
See ya on facebook! It was fun seeing you in Pittsburgh. Made me feel good to think about returning to Texas in the future knowing we have such brilliant young people coming through the ranks working to turn Texas blue.

Bought Nothing Day (0.00 / 0)

In celebration of Buy Nothing Day North America -- Nov 27 -- and Buy Nothing Day International -- Nov 28 -- I bought nothing.  

https://www.adbusters.org/camp...

And it made me happy.  

:)


Shopped on 11/28 (0.00 / 0)
Crowds were bearable, not what I expected.  Prices were hard to believe.  Bought nearly everything at less than 50% of marked price.

Texas College Football (0.00 / 0)
Texas wins Big 12 South.
TCU wins Mountain West.
Houston wins Conference USA West (beating SMU in the tiebreak).

Anyone else like the idea of a TEXAS conference???

Texas, A&M, Tech, Baylor, TCU, Houston, SMU, Rice, UTEP.

I think it would be pretty sweet and one of the most dominant in the country.


Sub arkansas for UTEP (0.00 / 0)
and you've got the old southwest conference.

Of course, the reason UT broke away from the SWC was that all the other schools were small, so gate, and TV revenue were not maximized (for UT).

A Texas conference doesn't fix that.

Really, though, aren't conferences kinda passe anyway?


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A Better SWC? (0.00 / 0)
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Texas Tech, TCU, Utah, BYU?

We can have Texas, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Texas Tech, and TCU as one division, and the rest as the other...

"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."  -  John Adams


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Good all around. (0.00 / 0)
The Republican wing of the family largely avoided political conversations at the Thanksgiving dinner table (saving for their love of Chris Christie and tort reform); and I got a dress for 40% off at Ann Taylor on Friday. Yes, an actual dress.



Now on Twitter: KathTX


Went camping of course (0.00 / 0)
Our kids actually like to come "home" for Thanksgiving.  

A Thanksgiving in Israel (0.00 / 0)
I'm finishing up my final 5 or so weeks studying abroad in Israel...we had a giant pot luck of 30-40 International students (mostly Americans, of course).  Thankfully, the combination led to a lot of Thanksgiving requisites -- turkey, cranberry sauce, dressing, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, deviled eggs...

I did miss pumpkin and pecan pies, though.

"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."  -  John Adams


Sabbatical story (0.00 / 0)
I did a sabbatical in Israel in 1999-2000. For Thanksgiving, my wife Anita managed to find a turkey, and made a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, complete with pumpkin pie and corn bread. In Hebrew, "corn bread" is "lechem tiraz", "this is" is "zeh", and "this isn't" is "zeh lo". We were trying to learn Hebrew, so I asked somebody to pass the lechem tiraz. My then-4-year-old son Allan shouted "zeh lo lechem tiraz ... zeh CORN BREAD"!!  He also said it with such a thick Israeli accent (intentional) that it took us a few minutes to stop laughing.  

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that's a pretty funny story (0.00 / 0)
Unfortunately, only a few people here will get it.  He didn't by chance do the little thing with his fingers all grouped together that Israelis do when trying to make a point, did he?

I'm trying to learn some Hebrew, too, but languages are extremely difficult for me and it's hard for me to stay motivated...

"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."  -  John Adams


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Hebrew is a tough language (0.00 / 0)
It took me the better part of a year just to parse the headlines in the newspaper, and after a year I could barely keep up a conversation.

Allan picked it up faster than any of us, and even he didn't speak it very well by Thanksgiving. But he had the accent down cold when he wanted to.  Kohn Buhead.  


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One of the facts on Good Eats (0.00 / 0)
said that Israelis eat the most turkey per capita of any country on Earth.

"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican." - H.L. Mencken

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