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This Thanksgiving, fans of cheesy movies can rejoice with the return of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Turkey Day Marathon! Continuing a three and a half decades’-long movie-riffing tradition, this year features extra helpings of cinematic turkey, spilling some of its gravy into Black Friday and beyond for the first-ever Mega Turkey Day Marathon Telethon! Premiering on Thanksgiving Day like the series itself did in 1988, The Mega Turkey Day Marathon Telethon will showcase a whopping 24 classic MST3K episodes over the course of two days. The event begins at 9 am ET on Thursday, November 23rd and concludes Saturday,...

Feel free to cross-post this to other boards of which you may be a member. In keeping with the Thanksgiving spirit, I thought I'd put this up for those who are going to deep fry their turkey and especially for those who will be attempting to deep fry their first turkey. Make sure you use fresh peanut oil for the frying. You can reuse the oil up to 3 times (2 is preferable) if you're deep frying multiple turkeys. NOTE: If you have a deep fryer that says it can hold an 18 lb. turkey, DO NOT use a turkey...

MST3K - Turkey Day '91

I hate writing columns that will run on holidays. No matter what you write, very few people are going to read it. That leaves you with the choice between phoning it in or throwing it away. Neither is particularly appealing to anyone who takes writing seriously. What to do? How do you reach an audience likely to be in a tryptophan coma vaguely paying attention to football or a relative taking a little too much advantage of the day off tomorrow? You mock liberals, of course. Because if there’s anything I’m thankful for it’s that these little snowflakes are crying...

<p>Melania Trump kept warm in a $9,400 Dior coat while attending the National Thanksgiving Turkey pardoning at the White House on Tuesday.</p> <p>The statement piece from the fashion house's Pre-Fall 2018/Winter 2019 collection features a red, black, and white geometric pattern.</p>

The MST3K Turkey Day Marathon 2018 LIVE NOW It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without turkey—cinematic turkey, that is! With the new season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiering on Thanksgiving Day exclusively on Netflix, Shout! Factory TV is helping MSTies whet their appetite for cheesy movies with a brand-new Mystery Science Theater 3000 “Turkey Day” Marathon four days earlier than usual, on Sunday, November 18th. Join series creator Joel Hodgson and Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet host Jonah Ray starting at 12 pm ET / 9 am PT on Sunday, November 18th, as they celebrate thirty years of the iconic...

It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without turkey—cinematic turkey, that is! This Thanksgiving, grab a heaping helping of Mexican three-layer dip and pureed giblets and join your fellow MSTies for the beloved traditional Mystery Science Theater 3000 Turkey Day Marathon! Starting at 12pm ET/ 9am PT on Thursday, November 23rd, the marathon will showcase six classic MST3K episodes, as well as brand-new episode intros featuring Joel, Jonah and Felicia as they celebrate the momentous past year in MST3K history.

The greatest Thanksgiving tradition of them all returns! MST3K Turkey Day 2016 will happen once again. Well, well, well. Another Thanksgiving is almost here, and for the fourth year in a row, we're lucky enough to have a Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon to go with the food coma. That's right, it's the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon 2016! After a Turkey Day drought from 1997-2012, MST3K Turkey Day returned in 2013, and now appears to be as inevitable as watching the Detroit Lions lose on Thanksgiving Day (calm down, Lions fans, this is meant as a good-natured rib, I root...

How long have the frozen turkeys been frozen? I was told by a former grocer that in some cases it is as long as a year.

"It is now becoming widely known within the US that the terrorist attacks and violence is subsiding in Iraq rapidly, because of the US military buildup of "surge"...

Okay, we are just a few days away from Thanksgiving so let this thread be the Official Thanksgiving Turkey Guide. Tips on preparing turkeys and the trimmings. I am really posting this thread out of ulterior motives. I just bought two Thanksgiving turkeys and assured my wife I know everything about how to cook them. She doesn't since she is from Venezuela. Problem is that I fibbed a bit. My main experience in cooking Thanksgiving turkeys before was merely heating up pre-cooked turkeys. This time I will be doing it almost from scratch. Okay, I do have one small tip....

When the Pilgrims landed in 1620, they established a system of communal property. Within three years they had scrapped it, instituting private property instead. Hoover media fellow Tom Bethell tells the story. There are three configurations of property rights: state, communal, and private property. Within a family, many goods are in effect communally owned. But when the number of communal members exceeds normal family size, as happens in tribes and communes, serious and intractable problems arise.[...]Thirty years old when he arrived in the New World, Bradford became the second governor of Plymouth ... and the most important figure in the...

The day after Thanksgiving I like to make these. That doesn't mean I am June Cleaver and always get around to making them. But, at least I think of it. These are the softest and most wonderful cinnamon rolls. Since I wasn't sure about copyright for reposting I am just adding the url for this.

Cast your vote to name the 2006 National Thanksgiving Turkey and alternate. President Bush will announce the winning names on Wednesday, November 22, 2006. -snip- This year marks the 59th anniversary of the National Thanksgiving Turkey presentation. Though live Thanksgiving turkeys have been presented intermittently to presidents since the Lincoln administration, the current ceremony dates to 1947, when the first National Thanksgiving Turkey was presented to President Harry Truman. The presentation at times has brushed against broader history. For example, the November 1963 event was one of President Kennedy's last in the Rose Garden. The first President Bush conducted the...

Today on this day of thanks... Atlanta Falcons @ Detroit Lions - 12:30 PM EST on FOX Denver Broncos @ Dallas Cowboys - 4:15 PM EST on CBS WHO SHALL WIN?

happy turkey day everyone May all your future Thanksgivings be imperiled by neither foul... nor fowl.

Concerning Thanksgiving, that most distinctive and unique of all American holidays, there need be no resentment and no recrimination. Likewise, there need be no wearisome present-giving, no order of divine service, and no obligation to the dead. This holiday is like a free gift, or even (profane though the concept may be to some readers) a free lunch--and a very big and handsome one at that. This is the festival on which one hears that distinct and generous American voice: the one that says "why not?" Family values are certainly involved, but even those with no family will still be...

The celebration of Thanksgiving is, I think, for faithful Anglicans a difficulty. To remember with fondness those nasty schismatic heretics called Puritans is problematic for me, so I have decided to offer some suggestions for the celebration of Thanksgiving in a thoroughly Anglican and tasteful manner. 1) Cornucopias have got to go. Flower arrangements are far more preferable, roses are even better. 2) All images of Puritanism must be excluded, including buckle-hats, blunderbusses, buckle-shoes, as well as all pewter. Good Anglicans use brass candlesticks and silver place-settings. 3) All remembrances of Puritans as fighters for the "Freedom of Religion"...

The Real Story Behind ThanksgivingDid you know that the first [Plymouth Colony Pilgrim's] Thanksgiving was a celebration of the triumph of private property and individual initiative?William Bradford was the governor of the original Pilgrim colony, founded at Plymouth in 1621. The colony was first organized on a communal basis, as their financiers required. Land was owned in common. The Pilgrims farmed communally, too, following the "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" precept.The results were disastrous. Communism didn't work any better 400 years ago than it does today. By 1623, the colony had suffered...

1124holiday-calories A deck of cards, two computer mice, some salad and two slivers of pie, please. If you're hoping to keep this Thanksgiving from turning into another gut-busting affair, that's what your plate should look like: a serving of turkey no larger than a deck of playing cards and half a cup each of two starches. (A half-cup is about the size of a computer mouse.) And that's being generous. But Americans generally are clueless when it comes to proper portions, and on Thursday most will belly up instead to platters piled high with more calories and fat than an...