Another helpful aide: a highly refined palate and/or cooking skills. My girlfriend's family is scared to death about my silent criticisms and they'll be grateful I'm nowhere near the kitchen as they prepare things.
It's also good if you're the annoying relative who nobody really wants around. You can watch football unmolested, because you already pissed off your family by making fun of the Macy's parade.
Drew is totally right about the "foreign relatives calling" problem. It forces me to speak broken English in a terrible Greek accent.
However, if that side of the family is from the Old Country, how come they're at Thanksgiving? That's the benefit of being from an immigrant family--nobody else is coming over for the holiday, so it's just your normal family dinner with extra good food.
Thus bringing the list of days in which Canadians are more productive than Americans to July 4th, Thanksgiving, and National-Fuck-Your-Moose-At-Work Day.
I am in Canada and have to work today. I have nothing to be thankful for... okay maybe the Last Pickle In The Jar story. Coming from AJ that is no surprise.
Thanksgiving football presents a problem here in the west...the second game usually ends around 4, which is when my family's get together begins. Sure, I can spend the morning hours blissfully alone in front of the TV (unlike you humps back east), but when I need football the most it's not there for me. Sure, the NFL added a third game a couple of years ago. But if my Aunt & Uncle's house barely has a TV to begin with, sure as shit they don't have the NFL Network. There's football on--somewhere--but I can't watch it. Instead I have to talk to my extended family. Goddamnit.
How I went through that period without sucking a dick is beyond me.
"That's what I always liked about Magary - the phrase 'our little secret' actually means something to him," said Mr. Beauchamps, Drew's seventh grade art teacher, from prison.
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BCS group launches new website that challenges the concept of implementing a playoff in college football www.playoffproblem.com
Leave it to GWB's sphincter to bring intelligent design to college football.
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However, if that side of the family is from the Old Country, how come they're at Thanksgiving? That's the benefit of being from an immigrant family--nobody else is coming over for the holiday, so it's just your normal family dinner with extra good food.
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Honest to God! I saw that Verizon commercial he's in last week and he looks fucking awful. He's all pasty and jowly. Basically, he looks like Carnie.
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Happy Thanksgiving my basement-dwelling brethren.
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"That's what I always liked about Magary - the phrase 'our little secret' actually means something to him," said Mr. Beauchamps, Drew's seventh grade art teacher, from prison.
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Happy Thanksgiving six weeks ago.
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