The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Col Tice & The Unofficial Surrender of Japan(8/25/45)-Nov. 26th, 2003

users.bournemouth-net.co.uk/~levesley ^ | Clay Tice Jr

[radu]

Heya snippy!

I'll get over this ..... it's a common occurrence this time of year with the weather flip-flopping. The sinuses rebel.

At least it's a lot warmer today than it was Monday....I'm thankful for small favors. LOL! A little wet stuff in the forecast but as long as it's wet and not frozen, I won't complain.

I hope you and yours have a fantastic Turkey Day!!

[snippy_about_it]

LOL!!! Darn it Matt. You had me fooled. I didn't want to offend you by saying just how UGLY that fish was!! You're very funny!

[SAMWolf]

Hi Matt! Thanks. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours in Poland.

[SAMWolf]

Can Turducken fly?

Les: It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way. It's flying something behind it, I can't quite make it out, it's a large banner and it says, uh - Happy... Thaaaaanksss... giving! ... From... W.... ... K... ... R... ... P!!

Les: No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this!

Johnny: Les? Are you there? Les isn't there. (composing himself) Thanks for that on-the-spot report, Les, and for those of you who just tuned in, the Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been bombed with live turkeys. Film at eleven.

Jennifer: But Mr Colly, a lot of turkeys don't make it through Thanksgiving!

Venus: Les! Are you okay?

Les: I don't know. A man and his two children tried to kill me. After the turkeys hit the pavement, the crowd kind of scattered, but some of them tried to attack me! I had to jam myself into a phone booth! Then Mr Carlson had the helicopter land in the middle of the parking lot. I guess he thought he could save the day by turning the rest of the turkeys loose. It gets pretty strange after that.

Andy: Les, c'mon now, tell us the rest.

Les: I really don't know how to describe it. It was like the turkeys mounted a counterattack! It was almost as if they were ...organized!!

Mr Carlson: As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

[SAMWolf]

Hi GailA. You have to over eat on Thanksgiving. It's the American way!

[SAMWolf]

Hi Radu. Get rid of that headache so you can "enjoy" making Thanksgiving dinner for all your cats.

[SAMWolf]

Base Commissary, that's what I figured.

[radu]

Get rid of that headache so you can "enjoy" making Thanksgiving dinner for all your cats.

shoooooo....I feed those critters as soon as I wake up. That way, I do it in a stupor. (it takes me at least an hour to fully wake up. hehe) It's the only way I can survive the "feeding frenzy"! LOL!!

[SAMWolf]

I loved Monty Python! There are some classic skits from them.

Have you ever had turkey with all the trimmings?

[w_over_w]

Evening Grace Snip & Sam~

Excellent read and amazing correction to history.

As they came closer, Hall suggested that we take out our 45s to greet the Japanese. I vetoed that immediately -- when you are on the enemy's ground and they outnumber you, discretion is the better part of valor.

Great call!

[snippy_about_it]

Good evening w_over_w, I liked that comment too!

[SAMWolf]

Evening w_over_w.

His mama didin't raise any dummies.

[w_over_w]

In case I don't get a chance to freep tomorrow I wanted to share this with you . . .

First Thanksgiving Proclamation
Given By George Washington
October 3, 1789

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and

Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed; to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the general , for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; ) to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3rd day of October, A.D. 1779.

George Washington

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Taken from The Washington Papers, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1955

From my family to yours, may all of you have a most blessed Thanksgiving. God bless America!

[snippy_about_it]

What, no freepin on Thanksgiving? :)

[SAMWolf]

Thanks w_over_w. Happy Thanksgiving.

[w_over_w]

LOL! I might have a little time in the morning . . . I want to rake leaves, mow the yard and Tae'bo before the "Roman Feast". Yeah . . . I think that will be a calorie break even. ;o)