There’s no gravy in space

Leftovers are one of the best things about Thanksgiving, so let’s start with these tidbits:

Astronauts happily celebrated the holiday with irradiated smoked turkey, freeze-dried cornbread stuffing and iced tea in cups fashioned out of rolled-up plastic book covers. Unlike a more traditional Thanksgiving feast, the astronauts’ meal was a mere 700 calories. Whatever. The astronauts didn’t need to fortify themselves for Black Friday, which requires feats such as sprinting, wrestling and leaping tall stacks of iPods in a single bound.

Meanwhile, the Sea­hawks were sent to bed without Thanksgiving dinner after losing to the Cowboys 34-9. If the game had been a competition to see who could get the best deals on Black Friday, the Cowboys would have gotten the Wii and the 46-inch flat-screen TV, while the Hawks would have been left with an olive-green sweater and a package of pink boxer shorts.

Like the Seahawks, some regular advertisers won’t be at the Super Bowl; NBC still has eight unfilled ad slots during the game. In these trying times, it might have better luck combining them into one infomercial slot. We’ve always wanted to know if a Ginsu knife can slice through a goalpost.