It’s Like Open Mic Only Different
Here’s how it works.
It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.
The rules are simple — be nice.
There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.
The Birds, the Flops, and the Foolish Folks
And the WKRP Turkey Drop episode
Surely you’ve got a turkey story to tell.
- Is it a fine family dinner?
- Is it a plan that crqshed burned?
- Is it a date that didn’t go quite the way that it might have?
- Is it something that only a turkey could have done?
And, whatever else comes up, including THE EVER POPULAR, Basil the code-writing donkey . . . and flamenco dancing (because we always get off topic, anyway.)
Oh, and bring example links.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
image: Flickr: by tristanf
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Ready to “gobble up” the conversation, Liz?
gobble gobble, this red-headed turkey is here!
Ah, my two smiling friends, gobbling in the door!!
Really more of a stuffing/dressing man myself to be honest
Tim,
I wouldn’t let that sentence get too far away from you. …
Hi Liz, the Queen of Turkeys! 😉
Queen of Turkeys!
I see how tonight’s going to go …
I was wondering who would pounce on that one. Since Amy isn’t here yet, I guess you’re the lucky one, Liz
Hi Miss Glenda… are we dancing the Turkey Trot tonight?
Thanks Liz would rather be out in person but this looks cool..so I will grab a wine and check it out…
😉 Luv ya, Liz!
Definitely, Mr T!
Hey Beth!
Welcome, meet Glenda and Tim!
Hey Liz,
Hey All,
This place sounds like home, Gobble, gobble jokes, Calling each other Turkey.
It’s nice to be with family during the holiday’s. 🙂
Hi Beth
I’m harmless but Liz bites
Glenda,
I think it’s fun! I just Twittered Amy that you beat her to it! She said @lizstrauss I’d never call you that. 🙂
Hi Beth, nice to meet you.
Yeah, Joe,
Does feel like family!
Guess Amy doesn’t know you well enough yet, Liz.
Tim,
Amy says she’s hunting/gathering, but she’ll be here later.
Glenda,
I’m laughing too hard to answer that.
Yeah Liz,
We already got Ms Glenda and Mr Tim dancing, gonna be a great party!
Hello to Liz, Timothy, Glenda, Beth and Joe! Happy Turkey to you all!
Hi Marti!
Congratulations on the book!
Hi Joe… Hi Marti
wow, only at #19 and Queen Liz is laughing hard. Off to a great start. How long can we keep her off her rocker?
Hey Marti, pull up a roost.
Uh-oh Someone put a quarter in Glenda tonight! I’m in for a good one!
hold her down and tickle her… that should keep her laughing for a while
Hi pseudohusband, et al 🙂
I took a poll on twitter, and I’m the only american who doesn’t celebrate thanksgiving.
Where are all the canadians?
in this recess, make it a dime, Liz. Cut backs, you know.
Now, you sound like my older brothers.
They used to eat my turkey when I wasn’t looking.
I don’t know Glenda, Liz is 6 eggs short of a dozen already, I think if we really push her we could have some Egg-nog by Thrusday. 😉
Amy,
This talk about any kind of turkey you ever met … must be a couple of turkey lawyers???
Thank you so much Liz. I am so grateful for all of the wonderful contributors (especially you!)
Hi Amy, I’m currently the token Canadian here.
Should I tell the frozen turkey in the trunk story … maybe I can find a link to it on my other blog. 🙂
Hi pseudo wife… I’m glad you like my recycling efforts
TGFG — Thank God For Glenda 🙂
Here we go …
One reason I’m such a poor child, my big brothers shamelessly picked on me ….
http://lettingmebe.blogspot.com/2005/11/tradition-is-tradition.html
Amy, I think Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving in early October. Don’t know if it is like USA, with turkey, stuffing etc.
Glenda?
Tim, I’m probably the only person on earth who doesn’t recycle. I walk everywhere, because I don’t drive. So I figure that count. :-p
So…um…yeah. 🙂
p.s. I goofed on my meeting days — that’s tomorrow — so I got to come play. Yay. 🙂
so now I learn Liz has another blog!
Joe, it’ll be either eggnog or scrambled eggs. Give her a few more comments. Turkey eggs? Hmm.
Welcome Richard!
I’m just a passel of secrets. 🙂
Sorry, nothing to do with Turkey day, but Frosty got un-guyed the other day and can’t even jump on my lap.
Poor guy(former)! 🙁
LOL Amy… I figure it’s my civic duty to recycle… whether it’s newspaper… plastics…. or a Lexus
Liz, I just read your Thanksgiving story….putting black olives on all your fingers – too funny! Plus losing your chair, going for chair, returning to half of your food gone – OMG, I laughed so loud husband gave me the “what’s so funny?” look and then I had to read it aloud to him. Now we’re both giggling! Thanks for sharing!
Marti,
THIS is the good one — the one they tell every Thanksgiving about me.
http://lettingmebe.blogspot.com/2005/09/turkey-in-trunk.html
Liz, I think you grew up in my house. 🙂
Oh Joe, Frosty has no more jingle bells? *grin*
Yep, we stuffed our turkey in October.
Tim, newspaper goes in the rabbit cage. I don’t use much that is plastic. What I do use gets reused. So I guess that’s recycling. In a weird way.
Marti, most of my Canadian friends celebrated on theirs much the same way “normal” people do here.
Joe, who is frosty?
Un-guyed! Owww.
Yeah Marti. No more jingle jangle for him (it).
Glenda, I hope you used something quiet to stuff that turkey! 😉
Hello goblers all.
Amy, why aren’t you normal?
Marti,
Seems like Frosty has a reason to be frosted …
Yeah, Amy, why arenât you normal?
Glenda, many reasons. LOL But in this particular instance, I’m not normal because I don’t celebrate thanksgiving. 🙂
Amy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0BFhgDcZkM
So, why am I not normal then?
Amy, Frosty is one of the kits we foster until they get a good home. Unfortunately, sometimes we have to make sure there are no unwanted little fur balls running around.
Read the second turkey story, laughed aloud again, nearly wet myself (sorry TMI?) had to read it to husband again.
Oh my.
Normalcy is a conception of mind that I’ve yet to find in reality…
Tim
#59 — knocked me off the rocker laughing.
Liz, you are not normal because you are my twin. Duh. 🙂
Richard,
Reality is a conception of mind I’ve yet to find …
With no more jingle bells, does that make Frosty frigid?
Tim — Thanks. Taylor’s son is now dancing around going “FROSTY’S ON! IT’S TIME FOR SANTA” (and he’s jewish. LOL)
Uh-oh Tim
Amy’s #65 is in the running with your #59 and Glenda’s #17
Richard, I agree. Totally.
Joe, please pet the poor kitty for me. And tell him I’m sorry for his loss. 🙂
Amy, PLEASE don’t tell Taylor about MY Frosty.
Don’t want to ruin his idea of the snowman.
Amy,
Would you feel the same way if Frosty was a turkey?
Gee Joe, does that make him Frosty the No-Man? 🙂
Liz, how’s the eggnog coming?
Liz, I like turkeys. As long as they’re alive. 🙂
Glenda,
Do you want yours with lime vodka? Or just the egg nog?
Yea Marti, he’s the no-man now.
When he first got here, they were calling him SNOWBALL, but some how that doesn’t seem to fit anymore. 🙁
Glenda, here’s the recipe …
http://lettingmebe.blogspot.com/search?q=lime+vocka
I got a free turkey today! Local grocer had a coupon for buy a ham, get a free turkey.
I will be fixing Thanksgiving dinner at grandma’s house on Thursday. She can’t leave the house since she has pneumonia, plus she has more room. Will have all the kids there, maybe others in the family will stop by.
I love turkey!
Joe, now you can call him Cuddles. 😉
eggnog with lime vodka? That’s a new twist.
Joe,
Snowball … Okay you’re in the running with Amyâs #65 Tim’s #59 and Glendaâs #17
Glenda,
It’s really good the egg nog ice cubes melt into the vodka makes an ice cream drink. mmmmm
Amy, I think we’ll keep Frosty since he seems to turn a cold sholder to all the girls now! 😉
Hey Joe, how about George?
You know….
I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him and love him and call him George
This is why Liz is short of a dozen – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rvg6AjjoB0
Canadian carma! Just got call from friend in Toronto area – signing off. Happy T-day all!
Liz, so here’s what I want to know from your story… if a person has no sense of smell can they still taste stuff?
Liz, are you still smell-less?
Um, Tim,
Is George your … turkey?
Bye Charlene
Liz, my nickname is Abby, you know from Young Frankenstein. Abby Normal! 😉
Liz, if you can stand, a comment needs fishing out of the pond, please.
See ya Charlene! Talk in the morning!
I have tastebuds on my tongue — sour, sweet, bitter, salty — about the range of a five year old.
Liz – don’t you remember the bugs bunny cartoons with the snowman who quoted Lenny from Mice & Men?
Look at Timothy, being all highbrow on us, quoting Of Mice and Men
🙂
People other than my father put lime vodka in eggnog?
Marti, isn’t #88 rather personal? 😉
Joe..Abby Normal made me spit water out my nose – LOL
No Amy,
My mom put egg nog in lime vodka. Very different thing. 🙂
Five year olds are fun. They like pixie sticks.
No Marti… nothing high brow… I was quoting bugs bunny cartoons. 🙂
Gosh, Glenda, I’ve been watching like a hawk … and that turkey got by me. Only 5 in there to go through. It was easy. 🙂
Tim, I used that quote until my mom reminded me that my Grandfather’s name was George.
Now I can only name Lobsters George…
(Don’t ask me why)
My father put lime in everything. And vodka. Of course, he also thought he was in the CIA. So the lime wasn’t really the biggest problem. LOL
Yeah, Marti,
I’m still smell blind.
Glenda, your comment kicked Marti to #89. 🙂
Liz, you can be smell blind… as long as you don’t smell bad… 😉
Glad you caught that turkey, Liz. Thank you
Glenda, I don’t think Liz has any outgoing smells, I wondered about incoming.
🙂
I just wondered if she still suffered from the inability to smell things.
Joe… I’ve gotta ask. LOL
Amy,
Little known scientific facts about bunnies …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3H95xYXHSQ
I’m all clear now. I think. Maybe not. Maybe so. Crazy day – LOL
Amy, because my mom didn’t like CRABS!
Sorry, but true. 🙂
Gotta go scratch in the yard, brb
I’m not making much sense, sorry. Very little sleep, lots of stress, extraordinarily excited about book launch but too tired to think straight about anything.
LOL Liz, how did you find that? That’s the best thing ever.
Joe, how did your mom feel about crawdads?
Marti — I stopped making sense at about 9am.
Amy okay one more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-wW_ETHHAY
Wow, Joe’s poem ought to be a doozey tonight; turkeys, vodka, crabs, castration….
🙂
Marti, I was just thinking about Joe’s poem potential myself.
‘scuseme, me believes a bunny is being slaughtered…
Amy, she never said. But I am sure she would have drawn the line at sucking the brains out (that’s supposed to be the best part).
When did making sense become criteria?
Hi! Has anyone mentioned the bacon-wrapped turducken yet?
ok all… gotta run for tonight… been fun as always…
try to keep Liz strapped into her rocker
Hey Amy,
Hi,Welcome and what the heck is that? 🙂
Yeah Marti, I can’t wait to see what I can come up with too. 🙂
Good night, Turkey Tim!
See you later!
I rarely make sense – I lost the recipe
Marti
Google has the algorithm for that.
G’night Timothy. Happy Turkey to you!
http://bit.ly/2bCP
Taylor: “Stop letting your internet twin warp my children.”
Me: “But it’s so much more efficient than doing it myself.”
Hello my fellow (nice) turkeys!
Hi everyone! I know that I’m looking forward to Turkey Day on Thursday–and so is my dog. He loooooves roasted turkey.
Store-bought sense just ain’t the same
🙂
@Liz those bunny links are seriously disturbed
@amyderby You might not want to click on my link, it’s very …meat oriented
Amy Lightholder,
There are some things that just shouldn’t be done with bacon!!
Please quote me.
Turducken should be outlawed. Just sayin.
(It is turkey stuffed with chicken stuffed with a duck. Because they ran out of storage space or something.)
Hi Amy L and Karen!
Hey Karen and –Deb!
Seen any turkeys lately?
@amyderby Don’t forget the layers of tasty stuffing between each layer of meat!
I’m having some for Thanksgiving. I’ll let y’all know how it went.
Sorry I don’t think I could stomach anything that starts out t-u-r followed by a d….
Gross, I know, Toldja I was crazy tonight
Fellow Crazy Amy,
I clicked. Couldn’t help it. 🙂
I’m not against others eating meat… Nor do I mind looking at it. Just can’t stomach it myself.
P.S. How are you?????
We have a flock of wild turkeys that usually lives on the farm down the road, but I haven’t seen them in a while … that Tom was nasty, too!
Hi Marti!
KAREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Missed you today. How was shopping?
Didn’t see you there Deb. Hope I didn’t miss anyone else. Sorry.
Here’s a great Turkey link for you–a murder case on Martha’s Vineyard!
Took my mother-in-law food shopping today. She always buys waayyyy too much food for Thanksgiving. Anyone need a place to go for Thanksgiving??
#140 Amy,
Maybe it’s not a storage issue … maybe they’re mutants from old Sci-fi movies
Goodnight to everyone who left while I was watching Liz’s bunny video. LOL
Hey Karen, welcome turkey!
Amy–it was ok. Lost my mother-in-law in the store. Found her standing outside of my van–many minutes later. I sure hope that isn’t a sign of things to come.
BTW–youngest kiddo didn’t get to take the hamster home today.
Liz, mutants would make sense too. Yes… I’m pretty sure that’s it. 🙂
And hi to Marti, Liz, Amy, the other Amy, Glenda and Deb. Did I miss anyone?
Happy Turkey talk to all my across the pacific blue ocean. Will you all vanish from the web for the next 3 days or so
@amyderby I’m fine! I also, apparently, have this weird sisterly desire to completely gross you out 😀
I just finished the Essay From Hell, so I may not last much longer, but y’all might enjoy this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcCsCDkNCVs
Karen, if she could find the van then no worries. It’s when she can’t find you OR the van that you’ve got problems. 🙂
What’s up with this hamster??? Taylor’s daughter wants to get a hamster to be a pet for the rabbits. (Dead serious.)
Sister Amy,
You can’t gross me out. Nope. Can’t be done. I’ve seen it all. 🙂
I take Facebook way too literal. People are throwing turkeys at me and I don’t like it!
Incoming….run!
Hi Karen! Sorry about your friend. Now I’m completely distracted by chasing Susan linx…
(Disclaimer: the one thing that DOES gross me out is not family friendly, and therefore can’t be posted here. But you know me well enough to know what it is.)
OMG Imagine having something like this on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9e8aLIR5uw
Marti — someone threw something at me on facebook once, and then superpoked me. I was scarred for a week. 🙂
@amyderby Famous last words
@suzie No, I will still be surfing the internet because I have no other life
Amy, is that the same Taylor that was so enthused with Frosty the No-man earlier? Please say the hamster hunter is his son! 😉
Hey Mer!
Welcome!
Thanks for the turkey vid!
Did enjoy!
wow Liz, thanks for catching that one right a way!
Ah, my youngest is begging for a hamster for Christmas. Not going to happen. We had two hamsters before. The hamsters ate a hole in two bedrooms and the living carpet. Chewed through the blinds on the window next to their cage. And guess who ends up feeding them because the kids “forgot?”
Glenda — that’s just wrong on about 32 levels. LOL
Joe, *passes the flowchart* Taylor is my girlfriend. Her son is 4. Daughter 11.
Karen, that sounds like grandma’s new puppy. He chews up everything! He has literally eaten half the carpet in her house, some of her drapes, part of the couch and her eyeglasses!
I vote with you – no hamster – unless you can find a robotic one – LOL
MER! You came. 🙂
@amyderby http://tinyurl.com/mgouh
This is great turkey talk. btw Canadian Thanksgiving was Oct.13 this year. It’s always the same as Columbus day. They have turkey and stuffing just like us.
Karen, I had hamsters as a kid. But I am pretty sure my boy bunny would lick the hamster to death.
sounds like fun Marti
Y’all are posting faster than I can keep up!
Yeah, but which one is the Frosty Fan and who is the Hamster Hugger? 😉
So … who else thinks about WKRP on Thanksgiving?
CrazyAmy — Thanks! I’ll send that to a lawyer to gross him out. LOL
Suzie, i’ll be around. Turkey is in the freezer til Christmas.
Joe — frosty fan is 4. hamster hugger is 11. 🙂
Yep, I did. 😀
Deb, the infamous WKRP turkey drop – hilarious!
Hi –Deb
How can you NOT think about WKRP on Thanksgiving?
Marti, yeah, three years ago, I gave in to the puppy request. Guess who ends up letting her outside, washing her, clipping the nails…?
Liz is gone. I’m afraid. She is probably looking for more videos. 😮
I’m sorry if I missed a comment. I am having trouble focusing….
Amy, I think your bunny would have the hamster for dessert.
“I swear, as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
Liz is right here reading all of the comments. 🙂
see you next week- just reformatting my mac with the lovely Apple Care people.
Wishing everyone a happy thanksgiving
Karen, two of the bunnies bite, so they wouldn’t get to play with it. But the other one just licks stuff. Either way, there will be no hamster here. I told her if we ever get mice, she can play with those. 🙂
Oh good. Liz is not lost. 😀
Deb, Les Nesmann, yes, thought Turkey’s could fly!
I really do think of that every time I throw a Turkey out of a helocopter.
Haven’t done it in a while because they never are cooked, only their gooses are!
🙂
Oh my gosh, I just saw that meat cake link that Amy posted– I could totally make that!
Bye Suzie. Happy Thanksgiving to you too.
Karen,
That mean you’re inviting us over?
Rats, company is here. Gotta run! Happy Thanksgiving!
Liz, open invitation, anytime!!
Karen, just so we’re clear… when we go eat pie it will not have ground beef in it. K? LOL
That was Mr. Carlson. Les was the one reporting from the site … “I don’t see any parachutes yet … Oh my God they’re TURKEYS!”
Bye Karen. Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving to you too.
Happy Thanksgiving Karen. 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving, Karen!
Thanks for coming!
Amazing Grace, Liz was lost but now is found!
Who’s Grace?
I wasn’t lost …
Wishing all of you a wonderful and joyous Thanksgiving. I am so grateful for my friends – I give thanks for all of you!
Good night – peace and joy to all!
Good night Marti. Happy Thanksgiving. 🙂
I’m too tired to concentrate on work tonight … why’s everybody leaving? I need distractions from all the baking I have to do after I get home from work tomorrow…
Hey Marti!
Enjoy the holiday!
Liz, Grace is what everyone in my family calls me because I fall down a lot. 🙂
You’ve never been lost, Liz? Amazing Liz!
Deb, what are you baking tomorrow? 🙂
Goodnight Marti!
*taps the mic* Where is Joe with his poem so I can pretend I go to bed before midnight? LOL
Glenda, I don’t get lost, I wander aimlessly.
Pumpkin pie. Also making cranberry-applesauce. Maybe some rolls–or I might leave that for Thursday…
ahh, got it, Liz! I call them adventures. Semantics.
Oh my pumpkin pie.
Yes, please.
Amy D, I’m trying to put together…
Turkey, Vodka, Lime, crabs, castration, bunny, turkucken, dancing, tickling Liz, eggnog, canadians, hamsters, rabbits & WKRP in Cincinatti (and looking up how to spell Cincinatti)
Sounds good to me Deb!
#223, Glenda,
Sometimes I call them adventures too. It depends on how lost I am. 🙂
Joe, I’d be happy to assist. But it’s so much more fun to watch. LOL
And now I have to figure out how to fit in Pumkin Pie and Applesauce! 😉
Gosh, you guys are making me hungry.
Liz, I’m eating nachos. Not very thanksgivingy, but I can pass some through the computer if you like. 🙂
Nah, Amy, I’ll get some chips here. Thanks!
I make a good pumpkin pie, too … though I do storebought pie crust. I have awful luck with piecrust!
Cranberry-applesauce? Easy. Cook down a package of cranberries with a little orange juice, until they pop, then puree. Then, add one, largish-jar of applesauce and sugar to taste. (I used to do the applesauce from scratch, but really, WHY?)
I love this cran-apple sauce, though–great cranberry flavor and color, but a nice, smooth texture. I really hate chewing through chunks of cranberries–it makes my teeth squeak!
i so love pumping pie, probably favourite pie.
Not good when food makes your teeth squeak!
Deb, I can “cook” three things (sort of): coffee, scrambled eggs, potatoes. Clearly I need to outsource any cranberry making to you. 🙂
sorry, pumpkin pie. Typing through tears.
If your teeth squeak, I think you’re doing it wrong. 😐
Glenda,
Does pumpkin pie bring tears to your eyes?
Finding my way back to Liz, if you KNOW you are lost, are you truly lost?
Amy, if you can cook potatoes, you can cook cranberries. (Put in pot with small amount of liquid and heat.) The hardest part of that sauce is occasionally stirring!
And, hey, I LIKE to cook, and like to bake even more.
No, not usually, Liz. I was reading something that brought on a high water level moment.
Glenda,
If I’m lost in a forest, can I find me?
Deb, I probably should’ve been more specific. I can cook a baked potato. In the microwave. 🙂
Glenda, does pumping pie bring tears to your eyes?! 🙂
Is this like if a tree falls in the forest, and no one’s there to hear is, does anyone wonder why the tree fell?
Hey Todd!
Pumping pie!!
There’s a photograph!
Liz, unless you’re having an out-of-body experience, I would think so. In fact, maybe a great opportunity to find me, as in you.
@Liz Maybe Joe can work pumping pie into that poem of his 😀
While do I always feel the need to sing while I wait for Joe’s poem? LOL
Okay … now my eyelids are starting to close. (Not the company, more that it’s only Tuesday, but it’s STILL been a long week …)
So … g’night all!
If I fall down in the forest when I’m lost would anyone hear me scream that I’m a Turkey?
Good night Deb. Have fun baking tomorrow. 🙂
Good night, Deb!
Liz, that’s it. No playing in the forest for you. LOL
Liz, depends if someone else is in the forest, lost too.
Okay, I’ll play on hill instead.
Ok, the song stuck in my head is about an ant who tried to move a rubbertree plant. Just in case yall were wondering.
Good point, Glenda. Chances are, we’d all be there… lost in the same forest. 🙂
Liz, are you going to roll down the hill?
Thanks, Amy, I needed that … turkey.
Have we stumped Joe tonight? No pressure tho, Joe.
Maybe he fell asleep without me. …
I believe Joe is having an aneurysm. (I can’t spell aneurysm.)
Well, need to go make something for supper. I’d be content with a pumpkin pie.
Thanks Liz.
I’ll check back to see if Joe had any luck.
Night Glenda.
I’m gonna go watch the bunny videos again while I wait. *grin*
Good night, Glenda and Amy!
No worries!
Enjoy!
Thanksgiving is a time for friends
With things like Vodka and Lime
But when you can cook Crabs and Turducken
Then the food is just so sublime
If your cat has been Castrated, too bad
Drink some Eggnog and Dance with Liz not forgetting the Hampsters in line
Neither the Rabbits or the Canadians
Pumpkin Pie or Applesauce can be declined
WKRP with Les Nesmann, Cranberries and not getting lost
Will best be remembered as friendship, it is so divine.
Burma Shave
Nite Liz
Nite All
(hope I got everything in there 🙂 )
Good night, Joe,
Sleepy Swell.
You did fine!
Nice work Joe.
Night Liz and Lizfans. 🙂
Nice work Joe!
Bye all!
Hey, Liz. I was just able to jump in a couple times, but that was lots of fun. Great poem, Joe! Night, all!
Thanks for coming, Amy!
Yeah, Todd, it’s kind of like a video game and a conversation at the same time. 🙂
Awesome Joe! That’s a keeper. G’night.
Well I might have missed most of the “turkey talk” but I got here in time for that awesome poem. It saved me from scrolling 😛