Really free range: President Obama pardoned two turkeys at the White House, 49-pound Cheese and his alternate, 47-pound Mac.
Republicans criticized Obama for, once again, overstepping his constitutional authority, saying his action had poisoned the gravy boat and they were considering responses that included refusal to pass the green bean casserole and voting to withhold whipped cream for the pumpkin pie.
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Did they take off their shirts first? About two dozen Russian oil workers waiting on a passenger jet in Siberia got out and pushed the plane when the were told the brakes had frozen and they would have to wait.
And no one complained when the oil workers got back on board and reclined their seats.
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1924, Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade took place in New York.
Absent any cartoon character balloons, parade organizers instead suspended rotund former President William Howard Taft from a dirigible and marched him along the parade route.
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