We all have odd holiday traditions. Decorating the birthday persons chair, Kris Kringleing the family members (by leaving very strange gifts at the doorstep) while trying to avoid getting caught by other family members or the cops who you have to explain what you are doing to...
Well its Thanksgiving, so I'll share my Thanksgiving tradition and see if anyone can compete, which I'm sure you can.
As soon as I get off work, I'm changing and grabbing my AK because on thanksgiving, we all go out into the front yard and shoot assault rifles.
Need example of said strange gifts. I feel a new tradition coming on.....and a way to get stuff out of our junk room.
We will drop off a dollar store thing or a family heirloom that no one wants, hanging it on the door or something with a note from "Kris Kringle." As for those of you who are going to say, "But, hey, I thought you were a Witch." Yes, guilty as charged, but I was raised Catholic and believe in Baby Jebus, so I play along,
Things such as candy all the way to the giant doll my grandma used to dress up are left on doorsteps. The doll is life size. Yes, I'm sure all she did was play dress up with it.
The fun part of that is to guess who it was. This year, my wife is my secret weapon. We know the poems that my uncle writes, so Wifey will be writing a poem to trick everyone.
A number of family members use to do some shooting, started about noon and stopped around 3PM then went inside and had dinner around 4PM 
. Now the "backstop" is a development 
Paul B
N Sperlo wrote:
We all have odd holiday traditions. Decorating the birthday persons chair, Kris Kringleing the family members (by leaving very strange gifts at the doorstep) while trying to avoid getting caught by other family members or the cops who you have to explain what you are doing to...
Well its Thanksgiving, so I'll share my Thanksgiving tradition and see if anyone can compete, which I'm sure you can.
As soon as I get off work, I'm changing and grabbing my AK because on thanksgiving, we all go out into the front yard and shoot assault rifles.
In reply to Donebrokeit:
For Shame. We have two ranges. One is just a hunting area, so during hunting season, we don't shoot over there. The backstop is a large uphill climb leading to an old runway. The worry is that a shot may go too high and hit a hunter on the runway.
Sachilles, Always remember, putting a felt and glue Santa hat on anything makes it festive. 
Well I just got home from playing 2.25 hours of hockey. Is that an odd tradition?
I don't know if it's strange really, but we like to usually go to the movies after Thanksgiving Dinner. However this year, since my inlaws now live in the South Loop, we will be going to the Field Museum.
I have a coworker who gets together with a bunch of their friends and goes hot-air ballooning every thanksgiving. They have an annual "Les Nessman Turkey Drop", which doesn't actually involve turkeys at all, only rubber-chickens dressed as turkeys. 
That's a good one, Pete.
Dropping turkeys could be dangerous. Especially if their frozen.
Wanna hear WEIRD? We celebrate Thanksgiving in October! 
Happy thanksgiving to the 14303! Everyone else can jump in the lake!
We use to always watch a "Porky's" marathon every Thanksgivings day.
ZOO
SuperDork
11/22/12 11:41 a.m.
We have family arguements.......and we're Italian and loud.
My sister married into a "more" Italian family than ours and every meal has pasta.
Turkey and a giant pan of lasagna.
Woody
MegaDork
11/22/12 4:07 p.m.
Turkey and lasagna here too. Plus, sausage and peppers. Nothing wrong with that.
N Sperlo wrote:
We all have odd holiday traditions. Decorating the birthday persons chair, Kris Kringleing the family members (by leaving very strange gifts at the doorstep) while trying to avoid getting caught by other family members or the cops who you have to explain what you are doing to...
Well its Thanksgiving, so I'll share my Thanksgiving tradition and see if anyone can compete, which I'm sure you can.
As soon as I get off work, I'm changing and grabbing my AK because on thanksgiving, we all go out into the front yard and shoot assault rifles.
\Southern Sheriff's voice:
Boy, around here, we call that "Saturday".
/Southern Sheriff's voice
Seems like we usually wind up watching a Bond flick while fighting off a turkey coma.
Run, James, run!
Not odd but one of the most memorable traditions I remember ever since I was a kid was my Dad and I taking off T'day morning and doing one final scouting of our hunting spots in preparation for opening of buck season. Worked up a good appetite and dinner was ready when we returned. Dad quit hunting when he was 81, he's 89 now and doing fine.
Remember when Comedy Central would play MST3K all day long? (sigh)
In reply to Appleseed:
Oh yeah, that was great!
I also remember when every classic-rock station would play "Alice's Restaurant" every year at noon.
petegossett wrote:
In reply to Appleseed:
Oh yeah, that was great!
I also remember when every classic-rock station would play "Alice's Restaurant" every year at noon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM
IIRC, The first time I ever saw McQueen's "Le Mans" without the pan & scan was when Speedvision was running it on T'giving night.
Appleseed wrote:
Remember when Comedy Central would play MST3K all day long? (sigh)
I do, I do. Ah, those were the days.
JoeyM
UltimaDork
11/25/12 6:36 a.m.
Curmudgeon wrote:
David S. Wallens wrote:
Appleseed wrote:
Remember when Comedy Central would play MST3K all day long? (sigh)
I do, I do. Ah, those were the days.
Dang, I miss that show. 
Netflix. I watched an episode last week.
