Le Grande Thanksgiving Laugh De Belly
November 21, 2006 at 6:41 pm
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:
For Thanksgiving, C-SPAN is providing gobble to gobble coverage.
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