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[johnny9fingers]

Now that everyone's eaten themselves silly it's my turn to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Celebrate your neighbours and be good to one and all....which includes all the relatives....even the embarrassing ones. And if somewhere in a corner, there's a slightly foxed and dog-eared 'Black Sheep' of the family, try not to set about his head with a baseball bat: in one house that 'Black Sheep' is me.

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[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I'm old and no longer 'with it'. I feel I'm entitled to be last month.

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

Everyone stateside that is ;)
(I enjoy it 'cause my company celebrates US holidays... much as that makes me *grr* sometimes when I miss a perfectly good show because I can't take the day off)

and *heh* in my family we've got white sheep: my younger brother.. and *hmm*... my mom I think. *thinking hard*. My father's mother perhaps. *thinking harder*. Yep - that's about it for four generations (at least). I suspect my niece and nephew - bright and silly as they are - will continue the trend of Not Being Normal.

Just to put things into perspective: My father's mother's mother was a handmaiden to Queen Victoria that ran off to Canada with this Irish lad... (and that should be enough info to find out who. I really should look that up sometime *grin* - it really was a terrible scandal at the time)

As a piece of advice from one of the non-white-sheep of the family:
Don't worry about it too much. Your relatives will tell stories about YOU and that just adds to the fun :)
PS: edited as my spelling is SOOO pre-Shakespear sometimes ;)

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I think thanksgiving is one of the best excuses for a celebration there is. Shit man, 'the neighbours came and rescued us' is a pretty good narrative in itself: celebrating it seems proper.
I also know the pre-Shakespearean spelling routine....mainly happens to me when I'm filling out tax forms.

[thaliastrel.livejournal.com]

Black sheep, bah*. My family are the black sheep of the whole darn neighborhood, which I think says more about the neighborhood than it does about us.

*Yeah, I noticed that.