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keesan
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Playing hookie from Thanksgiving
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Nov 23 03:52 UTC 2000 |
What are you doing if you are not celebrating Thanksgiving for the next few
days? Sleeping, reading, hibernating, working?
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birdy
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response 1 of 21:
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Nov 23 04:49 UTC 2000 |
Sleeping, reading, cleaning, sleeping, spending time with family, sleeping,
reading, and sleeping. =)
I need the sleep. Heh...
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carson
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response 2 of 21:
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Nov 23 05:04 UTC 2000 |
(there are people living in America who don't celebrate Thanksgiving? I
thought McCarthy got rid of them all.)
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senna
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response 3 of 21:
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Nov 23 05:15 UTC 2000 |
Working on Thanksgiving day, shopping, sleeping, and watching football (of
course!)
Thanksgiving is a nice holiday, because you can wish someone a happy
thanksigiving without wondering whether or not they believed in the
appropriate religion.
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birdy
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response 4 of 21:
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Nov 23 05:50 UTC 2000 |
Yeah...I noticed that at work tonight. I could say, "Happy Thanksgiving".
I'm even a tad bit afraid to say "Happy Holidays" in case someone is some
religion that doesn't have some kind of holiday in December. I mean, you have
Kwanzaa, Christmas, Winter Solstice, and Hanukkah (if I slaughtered spellings,
I'm sorry), but there are probably tons of other religions that don't have
a December shindig.
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other
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response 5 of 21:
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Nov 23 07:08 UTC 2000 |
You can always resort to "Happy December!"
Myself, if someone wishes me a merry christmas, or other happy holiday
type sentiment, I will *usually* respond in kind, depending on my mood,
because I recognize the spirit of the greeting rather than the assumption
that I celebrate any particular holiday in that period.
Sometimes I respond with "Happy Hanukah" just to make a point, but that
does not really reciprocate the spirit. More often in recent years, I
have taken to responding "Happy Hanyulekwaanzmas" because it covers most
of the bases, makes a point, and does so with humor in a way that doesn't
dilute the sentiment.
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happyboy
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response 6 of 21:
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Nov 23 13:45 UTC 2000 |
happy genocide II day!
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scott
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response 7 of 21:
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Nov 23 14:21 UTC 2000 |
Happy Number 11!
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keesan
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response 8 of 21:
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Nov 23 17:52 UTC 2000 |
Today we are feasting on the rye bread we baked last night and enjoying the
relative quiet while trying to make two dead browsers work again and find a
conversion table between two Cyrillic fonts, as requested by the author of
one (who promised to incorporate it in the next version if I got it working).
Nice to have the day off work. Jim debugged his little text editor again.
Work is what you HAVE to do and that people insist on paying you for.
Anyone local who is feeling unwanted should feel free to join us for lunch
(bring some food and let us know what time to expect you). Look under keesan
in the ANn Arbor phone book (call both numbers).
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jerryr
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response 9 of 21:
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Nov 23 21:55 UTC 2000 |
if i inadvertantly wish a jew a merry christmas and he/she responds happy
chanucka, i get the returned spirit of my greeting. my reply is usally - same
to you. it's an insignificant social faux pas that most people understand.
it's not on the same level of say a school teacher leading his/her class in
christmas carols and not also having the class sing the dradle song (and
others) or the songs of other groups celebrating holidays this time of the
year.
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keesan
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response 10 of 21:
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Nov 23 22:02 UTC 2000 |
When I was in elementary school the class was 40 Jews and one goy, and for
some reason they wanted us to sing Christmas carols. It made no more or less
sense to us kids than 'There were three ships a sailing' but for some reason
my mother got upset about this. I don't know what the goy did on Jewish
holidays when the rest of us stayed home from school. Maybe all six of them
in the school did something together?
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jerryr
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response 11 of 21:
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Nov 24 17:39 UTC 2000 |
there were six of us goyum in the entire five story elementary/jr. h.s. i
attended for ten years. we gathered in one classroom with the one goy teacher
in the school. that was decades before nyc wised up and closed the schools
on those days.
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qui1
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response 12 of 21:
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Nov 24 18:09 UTC 2000 |
I celebrated the bird day yesterday, that is enough holiday for me.
Tomorrow I will spend the day cursing at shoppers, unattentive parents
and demon children.
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remmers
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response 13 of 21:
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Nov 25 15:08 UTC 2000 |
The hell of retail sales.
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eeyore
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response 14 of 21:
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Nov 25 15:39 UTC 2000 |
Tell me about it. ;)
Actually, we were pretty dead yesterday. Not a good thing, since we've been
sucking really big time.
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russ
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response 15 of 21:
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Nov 26 13:14 UTC 2000 |
I've spent a fair fraction of the last few days visiting someone
who's been in the hospital. (Heart attack and stroke, apparently
both stemming from diabetes. Nasty. Glad it's not me.)
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tpryan
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response 16 of 21:
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Nov 27 02:39 UTC 2000 |
I went to ChamBanaCon, in central Illinois this weekend.
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danr
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response 17 of 21:
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Nov 29 01:43 UTC 2000 |
I went to Hawaii to watch the U-M women's basketball team play in the Univ of
Hawaii's Wahine Rainbow Classic.
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senna
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response 18 of 21:
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Nov 29 10:28 UTC 2000 |
Hmm. I think your vacation was more entertaining than mine.
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mooncat
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response 19 of 21:
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Nov 29 16:09 UTC 2000 |
Dan- did U of M win? <grins>
Thanksgiving was at the parental unit's home, with a couple aunts and
uncles, smattering of cousins and siblings, a sibling's Man and a best
friend. The gathering was only 15 or so, sadly smaller than usual
Thanksgiving gatherings (average group is around 20 or so).
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danr
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response 20 of 21:
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Nov 29 18:25 UTC 2000 |
They lost the first game, unfortunately, to Arkansas, but won the last two
games handily.
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mooncat
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response 21 of 21:
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Nov 29 19:51 UTC 2000 |
Two out of three ain't bad. ;)
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