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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    05:09 PM

    In reply to Obama Sends Turkey to Die in California

    Something delightfully Chamber of Commercey about the way most powerful man in the world, the President of the United States, gives a plug to "thank Jaindl's Turkey Farm in Orefield, Pennsylvania, for donating those dressed birds for dinner."
    Happy Thanksgiving, to all!
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    Image of thatblackgirl thatblackgirl
    04:10 PM

    In reply to Obama Sends Turkey to Die in California
    He is such a nerd. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    03:41 PM

    In reply to Obama Sends Turkey to Die in California
    TURKEY: GOBBLE GOBBLE
    PALIN: There you go.
    TURKEY: GOBBLE GOBBLE GOB--AAAAACKKKKKK!
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    03:29 PM

    In reply to Obama Sends Turkey to Die in California
    We all go to Reseda, some day, to die.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02:59 PM

    In reply to Obama Sends Turkey to Die in California
    Those girls are so beautiful. And he does look like a large chicken.
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    Image of nicepony nicepony
    02:37 PM

    In reply to Meet the Hot Boyfriend David Geffen Took to Obama's State Dinner
    Ya know Jeremy and his pals are all reading this and texting like mad today: "Dude, remember I'm the one who told you to talk to him at The Abbey...send me a million dollars!"
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    Image of mimigoliath mimigoliath
    02:30 PM

    In reply to Obama Sends Turkey to Die in California
    Is it wrong that I love this? It's ridiculous, but I really enjoy a completely unpolitical moment in stupid American tradition.

    And Obama is funny. On purpose. I love that too.
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    Image of Beau Nerd Beau Nerd
    02:29 PM

    In reply to Obama Sends Turkey to Die in California
    "I don't know about the haircut," he says to the turkey, and somewhere in America Maureen Dowd lets out a tiny squeal of delight.
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    Image of flossy flossy
    02:27 PM

    In reply to Obama Sends Turkey to Die in California
    Wow, he is going gray fast.
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    02:23 PM

    In reply to Obama Sends Turkey to Die in California
    One question - why haven't we heard this about the turkeys before? I already knew they were too fat to mate on their own, but heart attacks? While it wouldn't surprise me that factory-farmed anything wouldn't live much longer than originally intended when "pardoned," it still kind of disgusts me. We really ought to get over this once a year obsession with turkeys. I bet most people don't even like to eat the damn things as much as they like, say, pork chops, and I also read once that pork is about the most cost-efficient meat you can raise on a farm, factory or otherwise.

    FWIW, we're having Cornish game hens with the other usual Thanksgiving crap. We're just too small a group for your average Wal-Mart turkey which, unlike the other stuff one usually cooks, cannot be scaled to minimize leftovers.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    02:36 PM

    @HurtsSoGood: I'm just going to break this down point by point.

    1) Turkeys are delicious, any time of the year. So I kind of agree with you, in that it shouldn't be a once a year thing.

    2) Pork comes from pigs, which are not turkeys, and therefore does not taste the same. It is also delicious, but not the same thing.

    3) The point of thanksgiving is to maximize, not minimize leftovers. Stuffing sandwiches in early december are the entire point of the exercise.
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    Image of Anrkist Anrkist
    02:41 PM

    @m4ximusprim3: 4) Some of us really just enjoy eating dead animals.

    Not everyone is allowed pork.
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    03:35 PM

    @m4ximusprim3: Because it bears repeating, ad infinitum: TURKEY SANDWICHES, TURKEY SOUP, TURKEY CASSEROLE, TURKEY SANDWICHES, TURKEY SOUP, TURKEY CASSEROLE, TURKEY SANDWICHES, TURKEY SOUP, TURKEY CASSEROLE, etc.
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    Image of crookedE crookedE
    02:20 PM

    In reply to Obama Sends Turkey to Die in California
    Oh, Barry. How can I stay mad at you?
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    Image of manchops manchops
    02:15 PM

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    OMG OBAMA GIRLS VIDEO! You just saved my thanksgiving with this.
    Now why didn't bushie drag out those drunken slut twins more often? Umm, never mind.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    02:10 PM

    In reply to Obama Sends Turkey to Die in California
    As soon as you name them, you can't eat them. "Courage" and "Carolina" should be very happy they were given monikers because it bumped them into "pet" animal class.
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    Image of afraidofauntieem afraidofauntieem
    02:33 PM

    @PaisleyPajamas: Oh....... I lived on a farm as a kid and we named animals ---- T-Bone, Hamburger, etc
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    Image of afraidofauntieem afraidofauntieem
    02:34 PM

    @afraidofauntieem: But that was a REAL farm, not a factory farm. They truly suck.
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    Image of TigerTail TigerTail
    02:54 PM

    @PaisleyPajamas: Ha! So the runner up turkey is named Carolina, which brings to mind that other runner-up - "Carrie".

    Just a couple of enhanced-breasted turkeys.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    01:44 PM

    In reply to Meet the Hot Boyfriend David Geffen Took to Obama's State Dinner
    19,711. This will hit 30k by noon tomorrow, if not earlier.
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    Image of Zira Zira
    02:49 PM

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    Unless Geffen offers to buy Gawker from Denton for a eight (nine?) figure sum just to get this taken off.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    02:58 PM

    @Zira:

    Ooooh... strategy. I like it!

    #tips
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    12:09 PM

    In reply to Meet the Hot Boyfriend David Geffen Took to Obama's State Dinner

    Gawker's resident expert on the Rich Gays' Boyfriends notes that Lingvall fits Geffen's type, as described in Tom King's The Operator. (Click the image to enlarge.)
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    Image of Nick Denton Nick Denton
    12:32 PM

    @Gabriel Snyder: You know, I'm perfectly capable of posting stuff up into comments myself. You left out the best part: Geffen's liking for young goyim appears to be a function of Jewish self-loathing. "I'm just a boy from Brooklyn who wishes he were six feet tall, with blond hair and blue eyes," Geffen told Vanity Fair. "That's who I really am."
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    12:39 PM

    @Nick Denton: That's in there. You have to click the image to see the whole thing.

    #tips
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    01:15 PM

    @Nick Denton: I don't get Geffen's inability to picture happiness with someone closer to him in age. There are plenty of attractive older men out there with silver hair and laugh lines and pancakes on their head. Certainly, were such a person to meet me tonight for a quickie behind the brauten counter at Katz's, 8 PM say, I'll wear a blue scarf, the thought that they might be a media mogul of sorts would be the very least thing I'd find interesting as I gently inhaled their alluring experienced man-of-the-world musk.
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    Image of Nick Denton Nick Denton
    03:33 PM


    @Gabriel Snyder: Here's a picture of Steve Antin, another of Geffen's boyfriends. Tom King claims the music mogul sent Antin to a therapist after his dog pooped where it shouldn't have.
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    03:36 PM


    @Gabriel Snyder: And, finally, a passage from The Operator on Curt Sanburn, a student at Yale. Geffen was so obsessed he tracked Sanburn down to his digs in New Haven.
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    03:36 PM

    @Nick Denton: Geffen's the cuter of the two in that picture.
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