Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Turkey Day everyone!

Enjoy some turkey (or tofurkey if you prefer) fill up your bellies with good food and drink, hang out with your relatives and kick back for some football on TV.

See you next year around Halloween time!

WOW Respect

If you're a World of Warcraft player, last year they had some achievements you could complete related to the Thanksgiving holiday!

Check out the blog Tree of Life - Respect The Turkey for more details.

Very soon we'll start to see the Christmas creep happening in the stores, where companies put their decorations out for sale sooner and sooner.

Remember, No Christmas Before Thanksgiving! ncbt!

Turkey Hand

Who doesn't love a good turkey hand?

I mean of course the art project where you trace your hand on paper, then make your thumb the turkey's head and your fingers it's feathers.

I'm thinking we should all wear these t-shirts between Halloween and Thanksgiving to show our Respect for the Turkeys!



Source: Threadless - Turkey Hand by earlwallace

Cafe Press - Products

User Respect The Turkey over at Cafe Press made a great t-shirt back in 2008 supporting the cause!





It was made for 2008, but I think if you wore it today people would still get the hint!

Respect The Turkey

Every year it's the same thing.

Stores are so greedy to get their sales from Christmas shopping that they put out their displays earlier and earlier!

We all love Christmas and it's a wonderful holiday, but every time of year has it's place. At first the stores waited until the day after Thanksgiving to put out their displays. Then they started the weekend of Thanksgiving, and now they have their displays out the day after Halloween.

Some stores are even putting out their Christmas displays out before Halloween, a full three months before Christmas!!!

Christmas time is a magical happy time of year, but let's keep it after Thanksgiving at least. NCBT - No Christmas Before Thanksgiving!

Turkey Holiday Lights

A Thanksgiving light up decoration, now THAT'S what I'm talking about!

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Seriously people, I have to basically lock myself in a box after Halloween to avoid the Christmas explosion.

Did everybody forget that there is a huge American holiday at the end of November?

Is everybody so wrapped up in making their sales for 2008 that they have to turn Christmas into a big greedy money fest?

I am a total Christmas fanatic, but I think it needs to be something that is celebrated from the day after Thanksgiving until the New Year's Eve.

Respect! Respect! Respect!

Every year it's the same thing.

Halloween is over and people start bringing out the Christmas stuff.

- Local radio stations put on Christmas music
- Santa shows up at the malls
- Christmas music and decorations are all over the stores
- People start putting up Christmas lights

SERIOUSLY!!!

THERE ARE ONLY A FEW WEEKS BETWEEN HALLOWEEN AND THANKSGIVING, CAN'T YOU WAIT A LITTLE WHILE BEFORE RAPING CONSUMERS IN THE NAME OF CHRISTMAS???

AAAARGH!!!!

Respect the turkey. 'Nuff said.

BAH HUMBUG!!

Ok, so when Christmas comes around, I am totally Jolly old St. Nick.

I even dressed up like Santa for Halloween once, but SERIOUSLY FOLKS.

We were out yesterday looking for some Thanksgiving decorations, maybe something nice to bring my mom for dinner that night.

We went to Meijer's looking for something, and they had over five aisles of Christmas decorations, BUT NOT ONE THANKSGIVING DECORATION!!!

This is totally disrespectful to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Have we all forgotten about how centuries ago our forefathers were befriended by the native Americans who helped teach them how to survive in this new and strange land?

What about being "thankful" for the things we have?

As if Christmas wasn't already overfilled with massive decorations and extensive parties, we have to extend it all the way to Halloween and skip Thanksgiving altogether???

I am totally a scrooge from 11/1 to the day after Thanksgiving every year.

RESPECT THE TURKEY!

(Or the tofurkey for the veggies)