RE: [)Hi everyone/Solu tion for being family joke??

[Guest guest]

LOL! I'm pretty certain your family wouldn't find you " providing the

turkey " as funny as we would. Once some friends of mine invited an

acquaintance over for a barbeque. He watched them grill eggplant, corn, and

potatoes for a while and then asked where the meat was. He left extremely

angry when he found out there wasn't any.

 

Here's another option: go www.farmsanctuary.org and adopt a turkey. I did

it a couple of years ago. It costs $15 dollars to feed a turkey for its

life-span and ensure it won't end up on someone's table. Plus they send you

a neat adoption certificate and a nice color photo of your adopted turkey.

I adopted a turkey named " Pumpkin. " Whenever we go to relative's to eat we

bring Pumpkin's photo (nicely framed) and put it in the center of the table

saying that we brought our own turkey that's friendly vegetarian principles.

 

 

Everyone gets a kick out of it and then I have the opportunity to explain

that I adopted it so it wouldn't be eaten.

 

 

Beth Skeen [boomothergoose]

Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:18 PM

 

Re: [)Hi everyone/Solution

for being family joke??

 

 

 

Hello to everyone! Hope everyone is doing OK and JC got over her headache!

 

 

 

I " think " I am going to do something pretty profound for my carnivore " fun

loving " family once I a.) assure myself its not going to hurt anyone's

feelings as that's the last thing I want to, and b.) Be worth the trouble!

 

 

 

A co-worker, who lives out in the country, has several neighbors who farm.

One of which has turkeys. Thanksgiving is at my house this year so I think

it would be hilarious to let everyone know I am " providing the turkey " , and

then bring a baby turkey to my house and keep outside in the back courtyard.

When people come over I can ask " who wants to go get the turkey? "

 

 

 

I think that it would be funny and would only be doing it in jest, but I am

afraid some members of my family would think that I was trying to make a

statement instead. (Which, by the way, happens to be true. How else do

they think the bird got to the store anyway! Its pretty profound the more I

think about it! Most people don't want to look at the reality...that the

thing they are eating was once actually living!)

 

Knowing what the bird is being raised for I also don't think that I could

take the poor bird back once my little joke was over. Can you imagine my

neighbors surprise when they hear gobbling sounds!

 

 

 

(Plus my family would REALLY be steamed when they realized I really was not

providing a turkey!)

 

 

 

With kindness,

 

Beth

JC Reiswig <r5c2j wrote:Just going to say good night but had to

tell something to Beth first. I wanted to tell something funny. And that is,

one time my brother in-law asked me how I like being married to a mouse. I

said well it's better then being married to a rat. He thought that was SO

funny. Anyrate back to your problem, I do feel for you cause it would get

rather old saying the same old jokes everytime they come and see you. You

could mention that they must be getting old cause they can't seem to come up

with any new jokes in their heads. Just a thought. Good luck to you and I

hope they will

be a little nicer to you. Take care and I'm out of

here. My headache is starting to come back and really

I must get to bed. I'm so tired out and had this dumb

headache all day. Sure does suck. Night everyone and

take care. JC

 

**Dishwashed Verse*

Helping His wife was the dishes, a minister Protested,

This isn't a man's job.

Oh yes it is, his wife retorted, quoting 2 Kings

21:13:

I will wipe, Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping

it and turning it upside down

 

=====

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" Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their own graves. "

 

--TODAY'S BIT OF WISDOM/REFLECTION:

 

" You can't act like a skunk without someone getting wind of it. " - Unknown

 

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[Guest guest]

Oh thats a great idea! Adopt a turkey! I love it!!

With kindness,

Beth

 

Maija.Ray wrote:LOL! I'm pretty certain your family wouldn't

find you " providing the

turkey " as funny as we would. Once some friends of mine invited an

acquaintance over for a barbeque. He watched them grill eggplant, corn, and

potatoes for a while and then asked where the meat was. He left extremely

angry when he found out there wasn't any.

 

Here's another option: go www.farmsanctuary.org and adopt a turkey. I did

it a couple of years ago. It costs $15 dollars to feed a turkey for its

life-span and ensure it won't end up on someone's table. Plus they send you

a neat adoption certificate and a nice color photo of your adopted turkey.

I adopted a turkey named " Pumpkin. " Whenever we go to relative's to eat we

bring Pumpkin's photo (nicely framed) and put it in the center of the table

saying that we brought our own turkey that's friendly vegetarian principles.

 

 

Everyone gets a kick out of it and then I have the opportunity to explain

that I adopted it so it wouldn't be eaten.

 

 

Beth Skeen [boomothergoose]

Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:18 PM

 

Re: [)Hi everyone/Solution

for being family joke??

 

 

 

Hello to everyone! Hope everyone is doing OK and JC got over her headache!

 

 

 

I " think " I am going to do something pretty profound for my carnivore " fun

loving " family once I a.) assure myself its not going to hurt anyone's

feelings as that's the last thing I want to, and b.) Be worth the trouble!

 

 

 

A co-worker, who lives out in the country, has several neighbors who farm.

One of which has turkeys. Thanksgiving is at my house this year so I think

it would be hilarious to let everyone know I am " providing the turkey " , and

then bring a baby turkey to my house and keep outside in the back courtyard.

When people come over I can ask " who wants to go get the turkey? "

 

 

 

I think that it would be funny and would only be doing it in jest, but I am

afraid some members of my family would think that I was trying to make a

statement instead. (Which, by the way, happens to be true. How else do

they think the bird got to the store anyway! Its pretty profound the more I

think about it! Most people don't want to look at the reality...that the

thing they are eating was once actually living!)

 

Knowing what the bird is being raised for I also don't think that I could

take the poor bird back once my little joke was over. Can you imagine my

neighbors surprise when they hear gobbling sounds!

 

 

 

(Plus my family would REALLY be steamed when they realized I really was not

providing a turkey!)

 

 

 

With kindness,

 

Beth

JC Reiswig <r5c2j wrote:Just going to say good night but had to

tell something to Beth first. I wanted to tell something funny. And that is,

one time my brother in-law asked me how I like being married to a mouse. I

said well it's better then being married to a rat. He thought that was SO

funny. Anyrate back to your problem, I do feel for you cause it would get

rather old saying the same old jokes everytime they come and see you. You

could mention that they must be getting old cause they can't seem to come up

with any new jokes in their heads. Just a thought. Good luck to you and I

hope they will

be a little nicer to you. Take care and I'm out of

here. My headache is starting to come back and really

I must get to bed. I'm so tired out and had this dumb

headache all day. Sure does suck. Night everyone and

take care. JC

 

**Dishwashed Verse*

Helping His wife was the dishes, a minister Protested,

This isn't a man's job.

Oh yes it is, his wife retorted, quoting 2 Kings

21:13:

I will wipe, Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping

it and turning it upside down

 

=====

--FEATURED FUNNY: A sign in a Pennsylvania cemetery:

 

" Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their own graves. "

 

--TODAY'S BIT OF WISDOM/REFLECTION:

 

" You can't act like a skunk without someone getting wind of it. " - Unknown

 

____________________

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