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Thunderbird Club

#97,708
JIO said:
All about $ - the logic goes like this; Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday (fluctuating dates) so many people are off (work) on Friday and it creates what is becoming more and more popular here - "a long weekend". (3 day weekend) Well, why in the world would anyone having a day off want to do anything else but shop? Hence "Black Friday". (Black?...who knows) Having it assimilated into popular "holiday" events - happy Americans joyfully claw each other out of the way to be first inside the temples of 'good deal stuff'. (people have been trampled to death in this ritual)

Needless to say, many people go out of their way to NOT buy anything that day, me being one of them.
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The term comes from the retail trade. All year, retailers operate "in the red"; making losses. It is the Friday after Thanksgiving that retailers turn from losses to a profit - "in the black". The term black Friday has been around retail for a long time, but in the last decade or so has been picked up by the general public.
 
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Count Bassie said:
Have a good Thanksgiving, all- and let's try and avoid politics at the table, ok?

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
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I have a rule for holidays in our house. No discussion of politics or religion during our gatherings. Plenty of time for that elsewhere. So far all Thanksgiving dinners have been argument free :thumbsup:

TBird1958 said:
Maybe it's just my family, but we really like Thanksgiving because we can be with each other and have that great meal.
Regarding the shopping, we don't do that stuff, no trips to Walmart or anything like that - Happily.

Hope you all are having a wonderful day with your loved ones.
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We always have a nice family gathering for Thanksgiving. And we just don't do Black Friday at all. If we go shopping on the day after Thanksgiving its early afternoon so we miss all the stupidity.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
A completely different sort of T. bird.
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What turkey goes with Thunderbirds?

Probably this kind
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RedVee said:
Looks grand.

Did you ever do a step by step build thread in the luthier area.
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No, I didn't. My work isn't really a build in the luthier area level kind of thing. I did some finishing on the body and assembled parts. There were a few adjustments, but next to nothing of consequence. The one that was a whole lot more work was the TeleBird that's now a baritone guitar. It was not Lowe parts, so everything had to be shaved, tapered, or otherwise altered somehow. The neck Brad sent me is just about the nicest playing neck on any instrument I own. When I finished assembling the P-Bird, the neck needed no adjustments at all. The frets feel silky, if you can imagine silky feeling frets. That's his work, not mine.
 
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