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Abusing The Presidential Right To Pardon [Thanksgiving]

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Remember, anyone who says this is the season for caring has never worked retail.

    cj iwakura on
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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    BubbaT wrote: »
    GoodOmens wrote: »
    Medopine wrote: »
    http://www.blackfriday.info/ btw

    I clicked on the Macy's button and got a message that they requested their ad be taken off the site.

    Why would you turn down free advertising?

    I'd guess it's so that other stores can't react to their sales by cutting prices more, but it could just be that they want to control their information.

    I think it's the control thing. The stores usually sue under the DMCA, because it allows them to target a website's service provider.
    Despite the fact that facts cannot be copyrighted, most sites don't have the pockets to go against Best Buy in court. This year Wal-Mart upped the ante by claiming their BF sale prices amounted to "commercially valuable" trade secrets.

    Truthfully, they want you to have to go to their website, or even better their B&M store, to find out what they have on sale.

    Interesting.

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Thanksgiving this year doubles as my birthday, so I'm not really sure what to expect when I go home to celebrate. I'm guessing my parents are going to give me a dead cat strapped with C4 as my present this year.

    Hacksaw on
  • hesthefastesthesthefastest Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    nexuscrawler wrote: »
    Richy wrote: »
    Knuckle Dragger wrote: »
    I'm driving up to Canada to steal their women and give them diseases.
    Ha! Good luck getting past our border fence!

    <.<

    >.>

    What, there's no border fence? Fuck, I knew there was something I forgot to do last weekend.

    but but you have the mounties!

    and we know what THEY do,
    ZZZAAAPPP!

    hesthefastest on
  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Thanksgiving this year doubles as my birthday, so I'm not really sure what to expect when I go home to celebrate. I'm guessing my parents are going to give me a dead cat strapped with C4 as my present this year.
    And stuffing.

    Oh God, I can't wait for the stuffing.

    Quid on
  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Quid wrote: »
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Thanksgiving this year doubles as my birthday, so I'm not really sure what to expect when I go home to celebrate. I'm guessing my parents are going to give me a dead cat strapped with C4 as my present this year.
    And stuffing.

    Oh God, I can't wait for the stuffing.
    Yes, also stuffing. It will probably distract me from the explosive feline corpse gift long enough for it to explode in my face.

    Hacksaw on
  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    IreneDAdler wrote: »
    Thanksgiving is a fake holiday that celebrates fucking over Indians and is nothing more than a shameless baccanal of gluttony and materialistic consumerism.

    Please tell me this is a joke.

    Pata on
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  • DeciusDecius I'm old! I'm fat! I'M BLUE!Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    I'll be watching the Rough Riders take on the Blue Bombers in the first all-prairie Grey Cup in...ever I think. And just to add to the confusion it's being played in Montreal.

    Decius on
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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Shit, it's American (ie - fake) Thanksgiving this week?

    Sweet. I can't wait for Saturday, when all the trampling stories come rolling in.

    Deaths and Injuries due to low low prices == hilarious (also a sad comment on our consumer driven society)

    shryke on
  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    Can someone shut the Canadians up already and just take them over? Isn't your capitol guarded by like 3 Mounties*?

    *one is retiring next week, so we might want to wait

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Satan Himself wrote: »
    Can someone shut the Canadians up already and just take them over? Isn't your capitol guarded by like 3 Mounties*?

    *one is retiring next week, so we might want to wait
    Actually, we only keep one Mountie in Ottawa, on the off-chance that some US soldiers do manage to find it without getting lost. We keep the bulk of our forces around Toronto, which is where we assume the US army will accidentally end up instead of getting to Ottawa. We also have some forces in Mexico, in case you guys forgot that we're north of you.

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  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Isn't that cute.

    The Canadians like to play solider.

    Pata on
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  • JHunzJHunz Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Richy wrote: »
    Satan Himself wrote: »
    Can someone shut the Canadians up already and just take them over? Isn't your capitol guarded by like 3 Mounties*?

    *one is retiring next week, so we might want to wait
    Actually, we only keep one Mountie in Ottawa, on the off-chance that some US soldiers do manage to find it without getting lost. We keep the bulk of our forces around Toronto, which is where we assume the US army will accidentally end up instead of getting to Ottawa. We also have some forces in Mexico, in case you guys forgot that we're north of you.
    Isn't Mexico too hot for the polar bears?

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  • IreneDAdlerIreneDAdler Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Pata wrote: »
    IreneDAdler wrote: »
    Thanksgiving is a fake holiday that celebrates fucking over Indians and is nothing more than a shameless baccanal of gluttony and materialistic consumerism.

    Please tell me this is a joke.

    Well, I would have thought that the overblown language would have been a tip-off, but I guess there is a non-insignificant number of crazy people here who actually talk like that seriously.

    I am not one of them.

    Though I do find the concept of Thanksgiving rather silly and ironic. It is nice to have a family holiday though. But for me, that's Chinese New Year.

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  • IreneDAdlerIreneDAdler Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    JHunz wrote: »
    Isn't Mexico too hot for the polar bears?

    Not if you shave them.

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    JHunz wrote: »
    Isn't Mexico too hot for the polar bears?
    If Lost taught us anything, it's that polar bears thrive in a tropical environment.

    Also, that people can see a giant sentient cloud of black smoke kill their friends, then forget all about it and never mention it again.

    Richy on
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  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    Richy wrote: »
    JHunz wrote: »
    Isn't Mexico too hot for the polar bears?
    If Lost taught us anything, it's that polar bears thrive in a tropical environment.

    Also, that people can see a giant sentient cloud of black smoke kill their friends, then forget all about it and never mention it again.

    This is why the Canadians have to be stopped. They take Lost seriously.

    Satan. on
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  • DeciusDecius I'm old! I'm fat! I'M BLUE!Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    This from the guy that has William Shatner as his avatar. That being said you can keep him, and Celine Dion while you're at it :lol:.

    Decius on
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  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    Decius wrote: »
    This from the guy that has William Shatner as his avatar. That being said you can keep him, and Celine Dion while you're at it :lol:.
    Denny Crane, not just Shatner.

    How dare you.

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  • DeciusDecius I'm old! I'm fat! I'M BLUE!Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Oh I dared *snaps fingers*

    Decius on
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  • SmasherSmasher Starting to get dizzy Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Decius wrote: »
    This from the guy that has William Shatner as his avatar. That being said you can keep him, and Celine Dion while you're at it :lol:.

    I think when you're on the internet you can assume pretty much everyone knows who Shatner is :P

    Smasher on
  • DeciusDecius I'm old! I'm fat! I'M BLUE!Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Yeah but surprisingly some people don't know he's Canadian, hence the linkage to Wikipedia.

    Hell Hollywood is pretty well all Jews and Canucks.

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  • Irredeemably IndecisiveIrredeemably Indecisive WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    I shall be giving thanks tomorrow to Lee Harvey Oswald for making my birthday a date to be remembered.

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  • dvshermandvsherman Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    So does everyone pretty much do turkey? Or does anyone do ham or something else?

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  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    My parents rented a house in the moutains of north carolina. It has a hot tub and a bajillion rooms. My brother and his ex-girlfriend are making thanksgiving dinner, which means we'll have something indian (the subcontinent) in flavor. Last time I was with my brothers I spent a lot of the time drunk and/or high so I can't help but think this will be the case again. And of course my parents are sleeping in seperate rooms due to something or another.

    Oh and speaking of my parents - my family's favorite thanksgiving story. There is no thanksgiving in australia of course, and my parents, after moving to the states, went to a friends for their 2nd thanksgiving here. They asked said friend about the meaning of thanksgiving, and he replied by saying how the indians saved the pilgrims and everyone was happy. Then my parents loudly said "I bet they're kicking themselves now!" to which quiet horror was expressed.

    Casual Eddy on
  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Hah.
    D:
    Yeah, we try to ignore that we backstabbed them.

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  • IreneDAdlerIreneDAdler Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Casual Eddy wrote: »
    Then my parents loudly said "I bet they're kicking themselves now!" to which quiet horror was expressed.

    XD You have awesome parents. :^:

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud wrote: »
    Hah.
    D:
    Yeah, we try to ignore that we backstabbed them.

    I think you mean systematically destroyed their culture and people.


    HAPPY THANKSGIVING!



    Also I think after seeing a ton of Black Friday commercials on TV (OMG STORE OPENING AT 4AM!!!) I will most definitely not be going out to shop that day.

    Medopine on
  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    Medopine wrote: »
    Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud wrote: »
    Hah.
    D:
    Yeah, we try to ignore that we backstabbed them.

    I think you mean systematically destroyed their culture and people.


    HAPPY THANKSGIVING!



    Also I think after seeing a ton of Black Friday commercials on TV (OMG STORE OPENING AT 4AM!!!) I will most definitely not be going out to shop that day.
    I get to travel on two Detroit freeways that happen to connect three major malls. I'm thinking being on the road between 10am and noon should allow me to dodge the early morning nutjobs.

    Satan. on
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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    I wouldn't recommend it. One: people will be going from mall to mall. Two: lazy people will be getting up later to go to the stores. Three: Detroit freeways suck in general :P

    Medopine on
  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    Medopine wrote: »
    I wouldn't recommend it. One: people will be going from mall to mall. Two: lazy people will be getting up later to go to the stores. Three: Detroit freeways suck in general :P
    Yeah, they do. I don't have much of a choice unfortunately. I'll be staying at my girlfriend's mom's place Thursday night and I want to get back to my parent's place for Friday night shenanigans with my old high school buddies. Leaving later won't do much good. I'm thinking that 10-12n is the sweet spot. I just need to make sure I have enough headlight-mounted RPGs.

    Satan. on
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  • Irredeemably IndecisiveIrredeemably Indecisive WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Satan Himself wrote: »
    Medopine wrote: »
    I wouldn't recommend it. One: people will be going from mall to mall. Two: lazy people will be getting up later to go to the stores. Three: Detroit freeways suck in general :P
    Yeah, they do. I don't have much of a choice unfortunately. I'll be staying at my girlfriend's mom's place Thursday night and I want to get back to my parent's place for Friday night shenanigans with my old high school buddies. Leaving later won't do much good. I'm thinking that 10-12n is the sweet spot. I just need to make sure I have enough headlight-mounted RPGs.

    If you're really looking for an adventure, put a giant G on the side of you car. Specifically a gold one with a green background.

    Irredeemably Indecisive on
  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    Veevee wrote: »
    Satan Himself wrote: »
    Medopine wrote: »
    I wouldn't recommend it. One: people will be going from mall to mall. Two: lazy people will be getting up later to go to the stores. Three: Detroit freeways suck in general :P
    Yeah, they do. I don't have much of a choice unfortunately. I'll be staying at my girlfriend's mom's place Thursday night and I want to get back to my parent's place for Friday night shenanigans with my old high school buddies. Leaving later won't do much good. I'm thinking that 10-12n is the sweet spot. I just need to make sure I have enough headlight-mounted RPGs.

    If you're really looking for an adventure, put a giant G on the side of you car. Specifically a gold one with a green background.
    I'm missing a key reference.

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  • Irredeemably IndecisiveIrredeemably Indecisive WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Satan Himself wrote: »
    Veevee wrote: »
    Satan Himself wrote: »
    Medopine wrote: »
    I wouldn't recommend it. One: people will be going from mall to mall. Two: lazy people will be getting up later to go to the stores. Three: Detroit freeways suck in general :P
    Yeah, they do. I don't have much of a choice unfortunately. I'll be staying at my girlfriend's mom's place Thursday night and I want to get back to my parent's place for Friday night shenanigans with my old high school buddies. Leaving later won't do much good. I'm thinking that 10-12n is the sweet spot. I just need to make sure I have enough headlight-mounted RPGs.

    If you're really looking for an adventure, put a giant G on the side of you car. Specifically a gold one with a green background.
    I'm missing a key reference.

    Packers and Lions play tomorrow in Detroit.

    Irredeemably Indecisive on
  • jotatejotate Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    <- Failed. Nevermind.

    jotate on
  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    Veevee wrote: »
    Satan Himself wrote: »
    Veevee wrote: »
    Satan Himself wrote: »
    Medopine wrote: »
    I wouldn't recommend it. One: people will be going from mall to mall. Two: lazy people will be getting up later to go to the stores. Three: Detroit freeways suck in general :P
    Yeah, they do. I don't have much of a choice unfortunately. I'll be staying at my girlfriend's mom's place Thursday night and I want to get back to my parent's place for Friday night shenanigans with my old high school buddies. Leaving later won't do much good. I'm thinking that 10-12n is the sweet spot. I just need to make sure I have enough headlight-mounted RPGs.

    If you're really looking for an adventure, put a giant G on the side of you car. Specifically a gold one with a green background.
    I'm missing a key reference.

    Packers and Lions play tomorrow in Detroit.
    It's been so many years since a Thanksgiving Lions game mattered, I had forgotten.

    Satan. on
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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    Oh man. Extra traffic from that too!

    DRIVING NIGHTMARE

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  • Satan.Satan. __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    Medopine wrote: »
    Oh man. Extra traffic from that too!

    DRIVING NIGHTMARE
    Well I'll be traveling on Friday, the game traffic will be long gone by the time I hit the road. I was going to take 94 tomorrow to get to Port Huron from the western suburbs but with the game it'd be insane. I'll have to take 696 (the longest connector [three-digit] freeway in the nation FYI) to bypass Detroit. Pain in my ass.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2007
    I should try to hit up Canada's fake thanksgiving so I can get two each year.

    Also, looking forward to mashed potatoes. mmm.

    FyreWulff on
  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Whoo my grandparents are here now.

    Now for my uncles, aunts and cousins.

    Then to make an apple pie.

    Pata on
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