Washingtonians know that one of our longest-standing Thanksgiving traditions is the Washington Post annually serving up the same Art Buchwald Thanksgiving column that first appeared some time during the Coolidge Adminstration.

Buchwald, sadly, is no longer with us.  But will his ageless column still be with us on Thursday?  We can’t wait for the trucks to deliver that early bulldog edition.  We bet the Post runs the column.  Heck, free content is free content, right?

Either way, Extreme Mortman won’t be stopped from doing our annual response to the annual Buchwald column.

We started this family-friendly tradition it last year and continue now — word-for-word as it appeared during America’s glory days, 2006.  Here it is:

Chances are, after your guests finish extinguishing their cigarettes in the mashed potatoes, your Thanksgiving dinner will be marked by reading Art Buchwald’s Thanksgiving column, which was written in 1953 and feels like it has run in the Washington Post every year since 1952.  (If you missed last year’s, click here.  But not to worry, it’ll be the same this year.)

Inspired by Art Buchwald’s Thanksgiving franchise, Extreme Mortman years ago began his own special Thanksgiving joke.  I tell it to you now so you have plenty of time to steal it and practice telling it to others.  It provides the perfect opportunity to impress your family and friends at Thursday’s big dinner by showing that, like Art Buchwald, you’re witty, you’re on top of the news, you can identify important national icons, and you think great thoughts which may or may not have been inspired by the French.

Now, without further adieu, is the annual Extreme Mortman Thanksgiving joke:

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