May I suggest Young Frankenstein? Love Gene Wilder and Madeleine Kahn.

Maybe I will do a Mel Brooks marathon.

Can not go wrong with a Mel Brooks marathon.

after the shit year we've all had.

I also might watch a screwball comedy like the Philadelphia Story.

But my two favorite screwball comedies (also with Cary Grant) are His Girl Friday & Arsenic and Old Lace.

His Girl Friday is really great as well. I should watch those again.

I would be remiss not to mention that one as well.

Next up, Frank Capra:
Though not comedies, I really love Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and the original Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.

extremely relevant these days...



oops - this is not considered a comedy -- classified as drama/romance; but it definitely has some humor ...

I love William Holden.

"Born Yesterday" was making the rounds on the cheapskate TV channels a few years back. I've never seen the whole thing.

There's one scene in "Born Yesterday" where William Holden takes Judy Holliday to see the Constitution or Declaration of Independence -- in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress. At the time, the LOC was entirely in the Jefferson Building. Also at the time, that's where those documents were kept. They were moved to the National Archives in 1953 I think. The move was a big deal. Armed guards, the whole thing. Not like "National Treasure."

We are also having just immediate family for the first time (four of us) and it's so less stressful. Feel guilty not inviting people but I just wanted a year off.

It kind of bummed me out once they had a baby - it seemed to drag Nora down - but they were still great films.

My go to.
When my kids were sick we would watch 1 star war movie.
I have fond memories snuggling with my kids on the couch and having soup.

Cheesehead to cheesehead!

Unlike my relatives, there is no chance that my cats will bring up Trump.

I feel you. Not feeling it this year. Last year I was in shock and lied to avoid spending it with evangelical in laws.

This is my favorite “holiday.” I appreciate the spirit of it. This year I just feel down and surly.

The only orange I want to see this weekend is sweet potatoes and glazed carrots.

My dogs always hit a button or two when I'm playing, causing me to lose.

Wish I could do it every year.

I heard that scientists have engineered a six-legged turkey so people won't fight over the drumsticks, but no one can catch these turkeys.

(wink)

I can hear the groans now.

I'm spending mine with my closest and dearest family, no extended family this year! It's also going to be a lovely event. Exactly like I want to be spending my holiday this year, too.

I hope more people are able to be like us and just say no to the unwanted and unpleasant family who spoil every gathering.

Hug your kitty for me, please? I lost both of mine this year. My Tink the end of February and my Boo the second of October. Give your kitty some extra love for me and my holiday will be complete.

Tink was 22 years old. She had a long and very happy life before she was diagnosed with kidney cancer. Boo... he was just 14 when he became sick with pancreatic cancer shortly after losing Tink.

We love our fur babies. They're our family, too.

Any secret to keeping them living that long? I do everything I know to do (both dogs & cats), but none of mine have lived the expected lifespan. They all have fallen short of it. Regular exams, vaccines, healthy food, lots of walks for the dogs, all were indoor pets, love & attention, rush to vet if something seems wrong.

Maybe my vets haven't been too good?

I will give my cats lots of love. Half of my family are democrats and half are republicans. Politics always comes up.

Except it's split on a marital line, so it's possible to avoid the Republicans when necessary.

Thank you, for giving your kitties extra love for me! It truly makes my heart happy to know. If I could I'd send them some kitty treats for the holiday.

I spoil these kitties rotten. They were stray one month old kittens when I rescued them from the street. I only meant to get one but the other one showed up. They sleep together, play together and groom each other. I have had them for a year and a half. They are very sweet cats.

Both of my cats were rescues, too. I get it, we're tender hearts. We spoil them rotten and love them dearly.

Boo was 6 weeks old when I took him and his brother in as fosters, so I can imagine how close you are to your little babies who were even younger. They're so dependent on you at that age and they bond so deeply to you. Enjoy the years, and years of love and joy you have ahead of you!

I'm so glad I chimed in on your post. You made me smile and gave me kitty love by proxy. Thank you!!

Or, do like my sister does with Christmas now that our family does not have holidays. She has a cookout at her place and a bunch of her friends bring stuff to contribute. Most of them are childless or their children are away living their own lives. It's a fun time, though I have only been once.

Our friends who are childless are getting to that point - their parents are gone and they try to get together for the holidays. Because my in laws always have a big do planned, my husband and I are pretty much obligated to go to their events, even when I would rather stay home for a quiet day.

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

I once lied to people who invited me because all I wanted was a 4 day weekend to myself.

Happy Thanksgiving!

So good to see you. Long time since the BOG.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving...yours may be better than most.

Peace.

Board of Governors? Bank of Ghana?

Did I mistake your name?

Someone that has not posted here in awhile.

I did recognize your name so I thought it was something that I had forgotten.

and no longer post. I miss them.

No, you forgot nothing, it was my mistake.

Happy Thanksgiving.

It's just me and my 86 year old Dad holding down the fort.

Filet mignon for me. Mashed potatoes and a bunch of other soft food for Dad. Pie and ice cream.

And then watch all my shows and movies on the 4K.

It'll be grand!

(Added bonus: I play the electric guitar, and my Dad is just this side of stone deaf...lol.)

Enjoy your solitude and enjoy the furry friends you are lucky to have as company. I guarantee, this Thanksgiving wii be less stressful.

I have to work.....alone

I'm OK with it, have never been into holidays and often volunteer to work

It sounds wonderfully peaceful.

Hallmark movies.......it's all schmaltzy Christmas movies.

I've watched a hallmark movie a time or two in my life.

sending not so good messages. They really reinforce rightwing ideas.

1. City life and city folks are never as good as small town life and people

2. There is never an african american/white relationship.

3. Everything works out as long as you have faith

4. There are no such thing as gays

But I do love me some happy ending schmaltz

My life would be perfect if I just had a man.


Still, I have to admit that I watch them sometimes too.

Enjoy.

I can take or leave Turkey, give me the mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie and I am happy.

Lots of great movies on Amazon and Netflix.

...prepared to feel sad for you, but it sounds like you have things set up just the way you want them, so bravo to you.

At our house, it is always just my husband, our 2 sons, and me. We live in the far northwest suburbs of the greater Chicago area. We are not native to the area, unlike all our neighbors. We have no relatives anywhere near enough (New York, Colorado and Wyoming), and all our neighbors are busy with their own relatives - can't invite anyone to join us because they all have plans with their extended families.

Our sons are now 25 and 27. We discovered fairly early on that it takes to young men with healthy appetites no longer to consume a Thanksgiving diner that took 6+ hours to prepare than it does for them to wolf down a frozen pizza that took 15 minutes in the oven. I always dawdle over my dinner so that we stay at the table at least 30 minutes. Now that they both are living on their own, there is at least more to talk about than when they were still in high school and we saw each other every day.

Enjoy your solitude and your kitties. We have 4.

I'm going to church. Then, I'm going to fry chicken, make mashed potatoes and green beans, and work on my latest book revisions.

holidays. We should be living Thanksgiving and the current/upcoming holy holidays with the way we live each and everyday. I really disdain ppl who show grace and thanks only on the days when they fall on the calendar versus making those values a part of their day to day lives.

and a heck of a lot better than listening to Republican relatives. We don't have anyone in our home anymore that supports this grotesque Republican agenda.

O Henry's Full House is a good one. Five episodes with twist endings. They save the Gift of the Magi for last but The Cop and the Anthem and The Last Leaf are standouts. With Charles Laughton, Marlyn Monroe, David Wayne, Richard Widmark, Dale Robinson, Anne Baxter, Jean Peters, Gregory Ratoff, Oscar Levant, Fred Allen, Jeanne Crain and Farley Granger.

I will check it out. I like Richard Widmark.

I watched TV (video games and VCRs hadn't been invented yet) and ate a Turkey TV dinner. It was just fine.

This year, a few nearby family members will drop in. Either way is fine with me. I like having company, and I like being alone. Sounds like you feel somewhat the same way.

Sounds like you have a great plan. Enjoy!

I recently separated from my husband of 32 years--my choice--and moved 3 hours away to the beach for the off season until the end of March. I didn't want to run in to him around town the way a friend reported to me she did the other day. So I don't know anyone around here.

I have my dog with me. We've already established a routine that involves a lot of reading (got a library card this week)and I am retired. I will be very happy not to have to cook. Will miss seeing my grown sons and their partners, though. Hoping they will come visit me sometime in the next few months.

I have always been comfortable being alone. No other family in the state or nearby. It will be just another day for me.

One of the perks of my job is it is right across the street from the library.

They are very affectionate. They always want to be cuddled and played with.

When I lived in Tulsa, and we got hit by a rare huge snowstorm. Most of my family was in Kansas, and they said don't risk it, and I agreed. Peaceful day, looking at the snow. Read Dickens', "A Christmas Carol," went for a walk in the snow. Fortunately, had plenty of food in the house so I managed to put together enough of a feast that I was happily fed, and just thought of favorite memories of Christmases past.

TlalocW

There's a bunch of football to watch if you're so inclined......

I have to be out of the house at 5:15 tomorrow morning in order to be at work by 10:30. Then I leave work at 3:10 so I can be back home at 9:30 tomorrow night. The direct train home was full, so I have an hour layover on the way back.

We celebrate our Thanksgiving dinner on Friday, since most people here will be working tomorrow. Enjoy your day(s) of tranquiity! At times, I envy those who have them.

Watching the parade and part of the dog show, then going to Longwood Gardens to see the lights.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Life is to short.

I will be at my new farmhouse.

First holiday there.

No republicans and no family members.

Except a dog and 2 cats. The 'christmas' holiday will be the same -- 8 days of beautiful solitude -- watching old movies, and ignoring the hate in the world.

Yes, I would prefer a larger crowd, but that would require travel which I hate at the holidays. There will be no political discord, we are all in agreement. So my husband, sister and I will have a quiet day. Quiet and no political arguments are things for which to be thankful.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, hope there are minimal political skirmishes and if there are please assure them that you belong to a group who generally agree with you.

that was a Xmas gift last year. So I can go anywhere you can!

Enjoy the solitude, Irish. I know I would.

Who think that sounds like a perfectly delightful holiday.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, MATE!

especially as they are now. I'm fine by myself but my neighbors always act like they pity me. I had many, many years of hosting big Thanksgiving dinners and it got tiring after years of it. I welcomed any excuse not to do all that work any longer. I know some women probably love it, but not me. Seems like an awful lot of money and time spent on one meal that gets eaten in less than 20 minutes.

I actually like Christmas even less what with all the materialism and very little true meaning left to the holiday. But I try to enjoy the parts of it I do like. I'm not a total Scrooge.

Now that I'm older I don't do anything or go anywhere I don't really want to. I'm so done with all the societal notions of what one is supposed to be doing on a holiday.

I've been hassle free every holiday for years.

son but work kept me home. I need a break from everything and that includes news. Hope you enjoy your Turkey Weekend! I know I intend to do so. Happy Thanksgiving!

being alone, not answering the phone or the door. I have wonderful co-workers who know I don't do all the fuss, so the day after T-Giving I usually wind up with a bunch of their leftovers. I used to get invited, but since I never take anybody up on their invite, they finally quit asking.

There's always a good marathon, and some really good movies on T-Giving. That's enough for me.

Catch up on recent movies and eat leftovers...heaven. I'll cook sides (& turkey too) because fun to make and eat them all weekend... turkey cranberry soup finale is the best.

It's not just the long drive and then my discomfort at the family overdrinking. This year I'm especially uncomfortable (wary of me exploding, actually) around RW relatives. Love them, but this year taking a break and looking forward to stressfree TG..

Happy days today and beyond the holidays to you. My trumpublican brother called today, he says rump is toast. That is his apology for voting for it, a beginning.

But have a happy thanksgiving

My boyfriend and I decided not to go anywhere. Mostly because of work. This is my busy time and my project was behind schedule due to weather. Fortunately I was able to take today off (and Friday of course).

We are having Blue Apron. I am making a pecan pie in addition. We are going to watch football (both our teams are playing, though not each other).

Maybe a good breakfast out, depending on what's open.

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Confidentially, I love having long weekends to myself!

Happy Thanksgiving Irish Eyes... hope they are smilin'

Hope you're enjoying your shows!