...Give Thanks
This year Thanksgiving would be a lot like 2006, Jeff is having (hopefully) turkey on his flight back from France. No Grandma’s turkey for us like last year!
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| No this is not a picture of me in a bikini! |
May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
On a side note:
And we thought shopping in China was dangerous…
Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death
The throng of Wal-Mart shoppers had been building all night, filling sidewalks and stretching across a vast parking lot at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y. At 3:30 a.m., the Nassau County police had to be called in for crowd control, and an officer with a bullhorn pleaded for order. […] By 4:55, with no police officers in sight, the crowd of more than 2,000 had become a rabble, and could be held back no longer. Fists banged and shoulders pressed on the sliding-glass double doors, which bowed in with the weight of the assault. Six to 10 workers inside tried to push back, but it was hopeless. Suddenly, witnesses and the police said, the doors shattered, and the shrieking mob surged through in a blind rush for holiday bargains. One worker, Jdimytai Damour, 34, was thrown back onto the black linoleum tiles and trampled in the stampede that streamed over and around him. Others who had stood alongside Mr. Damour trying to hold the doors were also hurled back and run over, witnesses said. […] he had been fatally injured, the police said,[…] and he was pronounced dead an hour later […] Four other people, including a 28-year-old woman who was described as eight months pregnant, were treated at the hospital for minor injuries.[…] Some shoppers who had seen the stampede said they were shocked. One of them said the crowd had acted like “savages.” Shoppers behaved badly even as the store was being cleared. “When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, ‘I’ve been on line since yesterday morning”. “They kept shopping.” […] Ugly shopping scenes, a few involving injuries, have become commonplace during the bargain-hunting ritual known as Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. […] Witnesses said the crowd outside Wal-Mart began gathering at 9 p.m. on Thursday. The night was not bitterly cold, and the early mood was relaxed. By the early morning hours, the throngs had grown, and officers of the Fifth Precinct of the Nassau County Police Department, who patrol Valley Stream, were out in force, checking on crowds at the mall.
This gives a new meaning to Black Friday. The Friday after America’s Thanksgiving marks what is traditionally the busiest retail day of the year, kicking off the Christmas shopping season.
