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| # Posted 2007-11-21 02:47:29 | |
| StoraMoo: | I was thinking of running in the forest on Thanksgiving morning. I was thinking of running in Prince William Forest Park. I was thinking of running the second day of the US champs blue course (relive the glory and all that). I was thinking of starting inside the park at the parking lot that is on the road between controls 7 and 8. I was thinking of starting at 9 in the morning.
Were you thinking the same thing? |
| # Posted 2007-11-21 07:22:14 | |
| Swampfox: | Yeah, I was kinda thinking the same thing, but somewhere in my thoughts there was also the word "pizza". Sometimes people won't admit they were also thinking that word, out of shame, fear, and embarrasment. Is that why you didn't mention that word? |
| # Posted 2007-11-21 17:10:00 | |
| StoraMoo: | How wel you know people. I was thinking about pizza, but I was afraid to think about something tha was not on the menu of 200 million people. Do yu think those 200 million people are sad they can not think of pizza on Thursday? |
| # Posted 2007-11-21 17:34:35 | |
| kissy: | I know 1 person who is very sad he can't have pizza on Thursday. |
| # Posted 2007-11-21 17:40:05 | |
| Swampfox: | Thanksgiving is such an ogre of a holiday. It forces reasonable people to eat unreasonable amounts of horrid dishes they would never even nightmare about eating the rest of the year. Exhibit 1 would be the all day long cooked stringbean. Exhibit 2 would be the candied yams. They don't even dare feed those outrages to the prisoners at Guantanamo. The turkey itself is not exactly a charmer. Like, why even bother with those oversized chickens on steroids (seriously, how do you think those birds get so big?)
The whole traditional Thanksgiving menu needs to be upended and cast into the deep for the sharks and jellyfish to gnaw on. Or else fed to the house rats apparently presently infesting large swaths of Massachusets. |
| # Posted 2007-11-21 18:44:44 | |
| kissy: | You're such a lovely, thankful dinner guest. |
| # Posted 2007-11-21 20:40:45 | |
| gail: | I know kissy makes a good pie and I bet she would never serve day long cooked stringbeans.(I have bad childhood memories of my grandmother serving those, so I sympathize.) |
| # Posted 2007-11-21 20:53:54 | |
| Nadim: | Max likes the long string beans though I don't make them for him. I think he'd like pizza on Thursday too but will probably opt for some gulab jamun or hulwah instead. Have a nice run. |
| # Posted 2007-11-21 21:03:09 | |
| Swampfox: | Hulwah, hulwah!
It sounds like something marines would yell at each other prior to a run. Situation update: there are some pretty gruesome operations being performed on a very distressed turkey in the kitchen *right now* even as I type. I can't make myself look, but I think neck parts and even giblets are being roundly abused. |
| # Posted 2007-11-22 01:19:18 | |
| walk: | Ah - neck parts and giblets! The finer parts! Our house smelled just wonderfully all yesterday afternoon on various treatments of just those parts. And now new and equally enticing aromas emanate from the kitchen. The feast cannot come too soon. |
| # Posted 2007-11-22 01:28:16 | |
| Swampfox: | I was thinking it could come some hard rain tomorrow. And I was thinking that today's summer could become tomorrow's winter. Cold November rain. I wonder if anyone who was thinking of running the Day 2 course tomorrow would still be thinking of doing that in the event of cold November rain. Yeah. I was thinking about all that, and also about how the whole concept of stuffing inside the turkey cavity is totally un-cool. Does anyone really eat that stuff? |
| # Posted 2007-11-22 06:50:16 | |
| StoraMoo: | I was thinking of myself as a coward who does not run in the rain. I was thinking of checking the weather report that will say the rain will start about noon (to the north of the Park). I was thinking of trying to run at 9am and finish before the rain starts. I was thinking that if I arrive at the park and it is raining then a nice pizza brunch is a good change of plans. I was thinking our house smelled nice from the fresh rolls Maggie baked today. |
| # Posted 2007-11-22 07:57:47 | |
| Swampfox: | Hmmm...I was also thinking the weatherman was saying nice things about how he was thinking there would be no rain until the afternoon, which is also when he was thinking the colder weather would arrive. I was also thinking if I was running for 3 hours and wasn't already done by then, then it would be a good time to be done anyway, rain or no rain. I was also thinking that post-run, I know of a little cottage in the snow meadow country-scape where we could replete ourselves with something satisfactory. I was thinking there will be many T-day pies almost ready, almost ready except for the final crucial sampling part, and I was thinking that is where we could provide some invaluable support to the mission, which if you think about it the right way, would even be patriotic and undermine the evildoers.
I was also thinking that considering the truly horrific and notoriously impossible D.C. traffic, that if you were still reading this and not already in your car and headed down, then there is no way you would reach the park until 3 or 4 o-clock in the afternoon tomorrow, which would coincide with the onset of the cold November rains. At least the poor mortal souls who must venture out into the area traffic on a daily basis have nothing to fear in the afterlife. |
| # Posted 2007-11-22 08:03:07 | |
| Swampfox: | And for all the doubters out there, I would not bet my life's savings that day long cooked stringbeans with the stringy ropes that catch in your teeth will not be appearing tomorrow. If not here, then somewhere else. They may not be fruitcakes, but they do seem to get around, and somehow survive to this day despite the vast strides made in modern cooking.
You can still find a lot of Crisco being used out there too, and that's a fact. |
| # Posted 2007-11-22 08:18:05 | |
| kissy: | And I was thinking that no one had better touch any pies tomorrow until after T-day dinner. |
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