Gloria Gobbler

Gloria Gobbler November 24, 2005

During the past few weeks, an estimated 30 million people have viewed American Greetings’ Thanksgiving turkey eCard featuring Gloria performing a parody of a familiar disco classic, making it the most popular eCard in American Greetings’ history …
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The knife slipped easily through the gorgeous brown skin. But as I sliced deeper, the blade became wedged in the beast. I tugged as if trying to extract Excalibur. In desperation, I cracked open the breastbone in the manner of a heart surgeon. The bird didn’t expel a geyser of fragrant warm steam, as expected — just a puff of frosty air. The inside looked like a geode: pink, with glinting stalactites of ice jutting from the cavities.

Our guests sat motionless, jaws slack …

Here’s the rest.

Finally, happy birthday & many years to William F. Buckley!

Author of more than 4,000 columns, and still adding two a week; author of 47 books, 18 of them novels; host of the “Firing Line” television program for 34 years; a public speaker, often appearing in as many as 70 lectures and debates a year, for almost 50 years; ocean mariner; concert harpsichordist — his energy reproaches the rest of us. Married to a woman who matches his mettle, his proposal to her, made when he called her away from a card game, went like this:

He: “Patricia, would you consider marriage with me?”

She: “Bill, I’ve been asked this question many times. To others I’ve said no. To you I say yes. Now may I please get back and finish my hand?”

Will with more.

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