I'll tell you what I like about Thursday; It is the only day where Thanksgiving occurs. Our dear holiday is very selective. Let us analyze the beauty of Thursday. If Thanksgiving was on Monday or Friday, we would only get a 3 day weekend. Wednesday would mean it is back to school on Friday (who has ever heard of a 5 day weekend?). Yes, Thursday it must be. The beautiful simplicity of it has baffled our greatest minds. Aristotle, Plato, and John Tesh have never been able to grasp just exactly how beautiful it really is.
Let us move on to my mothers pies. I don't think Garlic Boy will be joining us for turkey, so let me remind him of the flaky crust. The homemade apple pie filling. The empty Comstock cans waiting to be licked clean. I know you are really taking one for the team. But when we all meet around that can-shaped-cranberry-sauce-in-the-sky, Garlic Boy will not regret not tasting the famous pies of 2005. He will be satisfied with knowing that his in-laws will let him use their cabin next year. Here's to you, Garlic Boy. We're going to miss you (and Sulla and the pixie and your beautiful wife, of course).
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