My friend Cuttle had the most Thanksgiving drama I ever heard of. His Mom had been convicted of embezzling and had one last Thanksgiving before she did time. She wound up in a huge screaming match with the father and he picked up the turkey and smashed it on the floor in front of all six kids.
Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.
'Safe'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Nov 25, 2006 1:22:11 pm PST #2894 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Tom Scola - Nov 25, 2006 1:48:33 pm PST #2895 of 10007
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Cute dancing toddler: [link]
JenP - Nov 25, 2006 2:36:36 pm PST #2896 of 10007
Holy cow, that kid is something else. I'd be worried about his hurting himself, the way he flings his little body around, but he seems fairly indestructible. And I guess he is pretty close to the ground. (Though, OK, when he kept giong up on his head, I cringed). V. cute.
bon bon - Nov 25, 2006 2:52:49 pm PST #2897 of 10007
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
No freaking way that's his real age!
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 25, 2006 3:02:53 pm PST #2898 of 10007
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
We usually save our drama for the funerals. Same Uncle. Told my sister that her smoking was the reason she "couldn't find a job OR a man."
He did realize that the emotional state people are in at funerals would have made for a pretty good legal defense if she'd decided to make it a two-for-one special?
Jesse - Nov 25, 2006 3:13:58 pm PST #2899 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Now I want bun and cheese. Hmph.
In much skimming, I think I only copied the two most random things possible:
I mean, where would you tear a "new one", anyway? Colostomy bag?
shrift, this made me laugh really hard.
But right now, lori is giving us a play-by-play of a meercat fight.
Over the weekend, I heard some rumor about some crazy shit going down on the meercat manor. What happened?
Lee - Nov 25, 2006 3:17:19 pm PST #2900 of 10007
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
JESSE!!
That's about it.
Jesse - Nov 25, 2006 3:20:59 pm PST #2901 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
LEE!
Also, we have no Thanksgiving drama in my family, either -- my uncle's mother-in-law even refrained from making a snotty comment about him in my mother's hearing, which she apparently did the last two years.
§ ita § - Nov 25, 2006 3:25:34 pm PST #2902 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think we have any predictable holiday drama. Just that there will be fights if all four of us are together for more than a couple days. There will be parent/child power struggles, perhaps a replay of a childhood behaviour pattern, and something involving me, a PC, and a lot of frustration.
I have told my mother that this vacation needs to be stress free for me, so let's hope she's preparing.
I'm back to watching CSI. Not only isn't it obvious that it's a mask (powder, people--would it kill you?) isn't it Roger Daltrey underneath it?
Topic!Cindy - Nov 25, 2006 3:28:21 pm PST #2903 of 10007
What is even happening?
(Though, OK, when he kept giong up on his head, I cringed). V. cute.Yes. Me, too. Most of it just made me say wow. But when he was doing some of the head stands (many of which almost looked like face stands), it made me say, "Oooh, honey don't do that."
No freaking way that's his real age!
The only thing that didn't look real to me was a shot of a person, shirtless, right before the closing credits. The rest of it looked like that two year old's body, because the movements just had something about them. I mean, it's astonishing, but I think it's real.