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November 26, 2003
Thanksgiving Again
Despite my having written thousands of letters to my congressional representative, America elected to hold Thanksgiving again. Obviously, this is not my favorite holiday because the central dish is meat meat meat and I am a vegetarian. I mean, not a literal vegetarian, because I do eat meat, but I am a vegetarian in my heart. And in my heart I also exercise regularly.
So anyway, Thanksgiving. My family used to have dinner with my uncle's family every year. We had a solid tradition in place, where my uncle's family would all bow their heads and one of my cousins would say grace, while my parents and I kept our heads up to indicate our unwillingness to bow beneath the yoke of the Church, the Pope, male chauvinism, Republicanism, Care Not Cash, Proposition 187, diminished school spending, overly aggressive foreign policies, sweatshops, and pre-packaged cranberry sauce.
But lately we've been holding our own holidays away from the Uncle clan, and my self-righteousness is all pent up with nowhere to go. We could take a tip from Sean's family and play a cutthroat game of Scattergories, but then we'd have to somehow steal our Scattergories back from, well, Sean's family. I guess we could make it into some kind of family-teamed Capture The Flag, if we had something that Sean's family wanted. Maybe our flag could be Gene.
In conclusion, don't fuck with Sparkles. Thank you, good night.
Posted by didofoot at November 26, 2003 11:03 AM
Comments
I like the wrap up there.
Posted by: gene at November 26, 2003 11:50 AM
Hey! Flags can't talk! (Peers at flag suspiciously.)
Posted by: didofoot at November 26, 2003 11:58 AM
how come you changed it so everyone except you doesn't get to show an email address? I think I should be allowed to show an email address; it's not like I give a real one anymore and it makes my name come in a nice bold font.
Posted by: didofoot at November 26, 2003 11:59 AM
i'll field this one, gene.
it looks like your name only bolds if you put in a URL. it's to protect us from spammers, right gene? right?
Posted by: holohan at November 28, 2003 11:11 AM
Thank you Matt.
Matt's correct Kris. The only reason my name and Matt's show up in a purple color on your blog (or anyone's blog for that matter these days) is because I disabled the display of peoples email addresses as a stop gap measure to prevent spamming. I'm trying to write a piece of code that'll check to see if you logged in to cementhorizon (the main page) and if so it'll show you the email address (nice purple font like you like) and if you're not logged in (see spammers) then it won't.
If you want your name to be purple in the interim, I'd suggest setting the URL field to
http://www.cementhorizon.com/profiles.php?uid=17
which is your email you page on cementhorizon. Then people can still email you, but you won't get spam.
Posted by: gene at November 28, 2003 11:34 AM
interesting. i knew the thing about you disabling email addresses due to spamming. i am still against it though. but as long as i am purple and bold, i don't care so much.
Posted by: didofoot at November 28, 2003 01:13 PM
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