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PaintedTrollop
11/13/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Turns Down Sarah Palin's Thanksgiving Dinner Invitation
That was not an invitation. Levi must not be as dumb as he looks. I do love him taunting the Rouged One. #levijohnston
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
11/13/09

@PaintedTrollop: He COULDN'T be as dumb as he looks, now could he?!? I mean, he manages to get dressed in the morning.. #levijohnston
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Trixie from Toronto
11/13/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Turns Down Sarah Palin's Thanksgiving Dinner Invitation
She didn't invite him to Thanksgiving dinner. She didn't answer the question. #levijohnston
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A Message To Rudy
11/13/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Turns Down Sarah Palin's Thanksgiving Dinner Invitation
What, he's got something against Ground-Glass Mashed Potatoes? #levijohnston
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manchops
11/13/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Turns Down Sarah Palin's Thanksgiving Dinner Invitation
Insert "Levi can stuff my turkey any day of the week" comment here #levijohnston
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lostarchitect
11/13/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Turns Down Sarah Palin's Thanksgiving Dinner Invitation
He should have gone... naked. #levijohnston
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overunderover
11/13/09

@lostarchitect: And passed his yam(bag)? #levijohnston
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Novaload
11/13/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Turns Down Sarah Palin's Thanksgiving Dinner Invitation
Isn't this zero boy's 15 minutes over yet? Shouldn't he and K-Fed be hanging out in a Holiday Inn bar somewhere? #levijohnston
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k122n
11/13/09

@Novaload: i just had a vision of levi, k-fed, jon gosselin and michael lohan duking it out musical theatre-style, a la anchorman.

really, this reality dad/media whore phenomenon should be made into a side-busting movie asap! with hilarious casting, too...

i nominate dean cain+40lbs for jon gosselin. #levijohnston
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Novaload
11/13/09

@k122n: Yeah, and we could call it "Four men and..." what? Nothing? "Four Men and Not One Career, bit of Class, or Talent Among Them." #levijohnston
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BettyCrocker
11/13/09

@Novaload: Four Men And A Litter #levijohnston
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
11/13/09

@k122n: Is there still a Hollywood Squares show? Cuz that would be an awesome line-up. #levijohnston
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PaisleyPajamas
11/13/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Turns Down Sarah Palin's Thanksgiving Dinner Invitation
...and if he went, it would be "awkward."

Which is code in Alaska for "They'd find my lifeless body after the spring thaw." #levijohnston
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seyswho
11/13/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Turns Down Sarah Palin's Thanksgiving Dinner Invitation
How long has it been now since politics turned into a CW tween drama?
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Beau Nerd
11/13/09

@seyswho: I would guess somewhere between 7 and 9 inches.

Shit. Sorry! I was thinking of something else completely. #levijohnston
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Btwbfdimho
11/13/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Turns Down Sarah Palin's Thanksgiving Dinner Invitation
He declined the invitation after seeing the Gubernatorial Pardon video from last year. Thanks but no thanks! #levijohnston
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kappakappaspankme
11/13/09

@Btwbfdimho: Can't say I blame him. #levijohnston
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BowlingForDollars
11/13/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Turns Down Sarah Palin's Thanksgiving Dinner Invitation
I do like this kid just for calling Palin out on her bullshit. #levijohnston
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misslinda
11/13/09

@BowlingForDollars: Same here. He's a boy with nothin to lose, and it's kind of adorable. #levijohnston
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thatgirlinnewyork
11/13/09

@BowlingForDollars: @misslinda: word. he's invited to my house for turkey and whatever stuffing he prefers. #levijohnston
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pony_express
11/13/09

@BowlingForDollars: @misslinda: I love that he is a monster of her own creation, that she essentially gave us Levi as a national figure and then, when she thought she could just discard him, he comes back and proves a surprising amount of gumption.
Famewhore or no, I am on Levi's side. #levijohnston
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Trixie from Toronto
11/13/09

@BowlingForDollars: Me too. I hope he never goes away. Also ... hot. #levijohnston
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scroll_lock
11/13/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Turns Down Sarah Palin's Thanksgiving Dinner Invitation
He is, however, accepting all invitations for whore d'oeuvres. #levijohnston
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pmarble
11/13/09

@scroll_lock: and Babydaddyback Ribs?
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Beau Nerd
11/13/09

@scroll_lock: Mmm. Will there be Lipstick'd Pigs in a Blanket? #levijohnston
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blix
11/13/09

@scroll_lock: Schweatty Swedish Meatballs. #levijohnston
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resipsaloquacious
11/13/09

@scroll_lock: He should be careful, too many whore d'ouevres and he'll need an amuse douche. #levijohnston
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resipsaloquacious
11/13/09

@Beau Nerd: Strange decision Levi, I love a good Syrah with my Thanksgiving Turkey. #levijohnston
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naugahydeinplainsight
11/13/09

@scroll_lock: Might have worried they'd be serving chipped beefcake on toast. #levijohnston
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alboy2
11/13/09

@resipsaloquacious: Damn, you're good! Amuse douche...now appearing on menus in overpriced restaurants all over New York. #levijohnston
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blix
11/13/09

@resipsaloquacious: Sarah somehow always knows where to find the freshest turkeys. #levijohnston
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naugahydeinplainsight
11/13/09

@resipsaloquacious: Or a beer and a shot. #levijohnston
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raincoaster
10/28/09

In reply to Dana Cowin —
There's only one way to wear a turkey. #magazines
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naugahydeinplainsight
10/27/09

In reply to Dana Cowin —
In an unprecedented television crossover event just in time for November Sweeps, the talented designers of Lifetime's Project Runway will expertly dress their turkeys in unique outfits that evoke the holiday. Then the cheftestants on Bravo's Top Chef will cook those birds in a thrilling beat the clock competition. Leftovers will be stored in the Glad Family of Products. Featured judges include Top Turkey Toby Young and designer Michael ("My skin is the color of a lightly roasted bird") Kors. Coming soon! #magazines
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Baroness
10/27/09

In reply to Dana Cowin —
I love a good roast turkey myself, but it's interesting how many chefs in restaurants scorn it. When was the last time you went to a restaurant of any distinction and turkey was on the menu? I read an article ages ago, chefs dislike turkey as a meat, find it flavorless and banal, a holiday, ordinary mediocrity of meat.

Which I think is a bit snobbish. But that's what being a Top Chef is about, isn't it?

Years ago I was driving with some cousins through the hills and wilds of Donegal in Ireland. It was the US Thanksgiving Day, and the wee inn we stopped at was serving turkey in honour of that. It made me smile, and was delicious. Thanksgiving is the best American holiday, imho.

Of course, as lady of the house, I insist on strangling my own turkey. It's humane, and over quickly, before I hand it off to the scullery girl. It's all in the wrist, really. #magazines
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snugbug
10/27/09

@Baroness: Thanksgiving is the most picturesque of all American holidays, unless you happen to be a Native American. In which case it's "sharpen the tomahawks and split logs for therapeutic anger relief" time.

I'm not sure if you're kidding about killing your own poultry, but if you are not jesting, I admire you greatly.

My Eastern-Euro grandma, may her precious soul rest in peace, raised chickens and turkeys and butchered them herself. Those birds lived happy lives, roamed vast expanses of garden and pecked at delicious grains and fallen apples all day long. Us kids gave them names and treated them like pets. When the axe inevitably fell, we stood at the elbow of our elders and watched the deed being done; watched them pluck the birds clean and cook them. Then we all ate them with joy and gratitude. Circle-of-life stuff, man! #magazines
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
10/27/09

@Baroness: Factory turkey tastes like the plastic it is wrapped in. The humanely raised heritage birds are worth eating. #magazines
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Baroness
10/27/09

@snugbug: Ah, don't try and make me weep in 2009 for the fact that Thanksgiving is a very nice secular holiday and occasion- it's not just "picturesque", I've found it's a cool time that people come together. Not just family, in any city, you rope in single friends away from their families. It's a lovely occasion I've found.

No, I'm not going to cry about Native Americans on this, about Thanksgiving. I do my penance every time I hear "National Native News" on my local public radio. The latest dismal tally, reported in a singsongy voice, of how alcoholism and poverty and every ill is still the white man's fault.

I actually do have Native American friends- they actually call themselves "Indians" unironically. The Shinnecock reservation is directly opposite what was formerly Southampton College, where all Reservation occupants were entitled to a full college education- for free. Not a cent. As opposed to non-Res people I've known who paid through the nose for their degree. I'll save comment on the fact that an alarmingly low percentage of Res residents ever even bothered to get the free college degree across the road. But there it is.

No, I won't be guilted out of loving Thanksgiving. And I won't be guilted into thinking Native Americans are perpetual victims, in 2009. They're not, and it's insulting to them to say they are. Who on Earth is prejudiced somehow against Native Americans these days, as if it were the 19th century?

Maybe you think I am. But I'm not, just have no patience for the endless victimhood story well-meaning people romanticize and get melodramatic about. And don't call me "man". #magazines
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
10/27/09

@snugbug: Fair is fair. #magazines
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snugbug
10/27/09

@Baroness: Dude.. I mean, Baroness, your feminine highness, you're bizarrely over-reacting to my initial, somewhat jocular statement, to the power of 11.

But since you insist on turning this into a serious exchange, here's what I think: Working up righteous indignation against the privileges of Native Amers is moot, because there are barely any of them left. We (collective, historical "we") exterminated them. It's not unprecedented, but it is sad. Theirs was a rich and beautiful culture, proto-ecological, if you will, because they had developed such a wonderful belief system to honor the beasts they killed for food.

It's not like I was advocating boo-hooing over the plight of Native Americans, a people stripped of their land and their means of survival. ("When the buffalo stopped roaming the plains, the Native American culture died."--Joseph Campbell)

I respect your intellectual prowess and adore your writing style but sometimes you are just.. wrong.

Enough of this serious stuff, we need to have a good turkey dinner capped by a peace pipe and all will be good.. #magazines
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Baroness
10/27/09

@snugbug: I hear you Snug, and i'm sorry for going essayistic and ..blabbing so much there. I respect your points, found myself being Slate contrarian there, which isn't very cool.

Pass that peace pipe, love. #magazines
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snugbug
10/28/09

@Baroness: No worries, honey. So.. Are you coming over for Thanksgiving? I make a killer onion tart to go with the turkey. I tend to mix up the traditional fixings with Eastern-Euro savory dishes. Everyone loves it.. #magazines
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kimsama
10/27/09

In reply to Dana Cowin —
A big problem is that turkeys, being headless and all, have a hard time smiling with their eyes. #magazines
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