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My fondest Thankgiving memories…

Posted by admin on Nov 23rd, 2006

Thanksgiving with my closest friends.

Remember when Ross says that he is having one of his worst Thanksgivings ever because of his divorce from Emily and eviction?

Chandler jumps in to remind everyone that he is “the king of bad Thanksgivings” and proceeds to tell the first of a series of Thanksgiving flashbacks.

Thanksgiving 1978: A young Chandler is told that his parents still love him, but his father would rather sleep with the house-boy than with his mother.

Phoebe claims she has an even worse Thanksgiving story.

Thanksgiving 1862: Phoebe is a medic for the Union Army during the American Civil War. She is tending to a wounded soldier when her arm gets blown off, prompting her to say, “Oh no.”

Ross says that the Thanksgivings have to be limited to this life (as Phoebe was referring to a Thanksgiving that occurred in a ‘past life’). Rachel says she knows Monica’s worst Thanksgiving, but Phoebe interrupts with a story about the Thanksgiving when Joey got a turkey stuck on his head.

Thanksgiving 1992: Phoebe (who was living with Monica at the time) walks in to their apartment and is shocked to see Joey with a turkey on his head; Joey put it on to scare Chandler. Monica enters and freaks out, but she and Phoebe can’t get the turkey off his head. Chandler enters and screams, and Joey tries to point and laugh at him, but keeps pointing in the wrong direction because he can’t see.

From the out-takes:

In the tenth season episode entitled “The One Where Chandler Gets Caught”, the same 1992 Thanksgiving flashback of this episode is used, yet Phoebe replies to Joey’s complaining about the turkey smelling really bad with “Yeah, of course it smells bad. You’ve got your head inside a turkey’s ass.” instead of the “Well, of course it smells really bad. You have your head up a dead animal.” As written for this episode. - Wikipedia

My friends were so fun! Miss you much - at least I have the DVDs. When co-workers ask who I’m spending Thanksgiving with, I always tell them “I’m having a few friends over” - that’s not a lie, is it? Anyway, they are always so consoled I won’t be spending it alone.

I am so going to sing “Memories” now - followed by “The Way We Were” and I may as well sing, “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted” while I’m at it! (Thank God for my home-karoke machine.:) The holidays can be so nostalgic can’t they?

Maybe I’ll go to Walgreen’s and stop by Kmart - I think they’re open today. (Just kidding, Ross and Rachel are coming over with Phoebe and Regina Falangi.)

EAT FRESH! :) :) :)

The Jump to Conclusions Mat

Posted by admin on Nov 23rd, 2006

Tom from “Office Space” had such a good idea with this thing! I think the press use it when it comes to what’s going on ‘inside the Vatican’. (And I don’t mean the magazine by that name.)

Last week it was the special meeting with Pope Benedict to discuss the Milingo problem, and the press along with Vatican pundits were saying they may change the discipline of a celibate priesthood. Not.

Today on Drudge, the report that the commission studying condom use will recommend the limited use of barrier contraceptives in extreme cases, so as not to ‘transmit death’ in married couples where one is infected with HIV. Complex moral issue, this one is. (Who can trust leaks like this? No pun intended.) Any way, that is not going to happen either.

After decades of opposition, Vatican view on condoms begins to shift:

[snip]The Roman Catholic church has taken the first step towards what could be a historic shift away from its total ban on the use of condoms.

Pope Benedict XVI’s “health minister” is understood to be urging him to accept that in restricted circumstances - specifically the prevention of Aids - barrier contraception is the lesser of two evils.

The recommendations, which have not been made public, still have to be reviewed by the traditionally conservative Vatican department responsible for safeguarding theological orthodoxy, and then by the Pope himself, before any decision is made.[snip] - The Guardian

Further:

[snip]The Italian newspaper La Repubblica, which broke the news of the policy review earlier this year, reported yesterday that the Vatican would “go from prohibition to the definition of exceptional cases in which it would be possible for the faithful to use prophylactics to avert fatal risks”.

Cardinal Barragán noted a passage from a 1981 document issued by the late Pope John Paul II. This said that “every conjugal act must be open to life”.

Until now, this has been interpreted as an injunction against contraception. But it could also be used to support an argument in favour of the preservation of life by the use of barrier methods. [snip] - Full text on The Guardian.

The ‘rules’ are not going to change. Thank God on this Thanksgiving we have a holy theologian for a Pope. And read the news with great reservation - watch out for gossip and rumors as well - even when it comes from cozy Roman sources.

Happy Thanksgiving!