Lictor - Column for 11/28

Happy Thanksgiving

Um, Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Yeah, I know I should have something more creative to say, but sometimes the ol' creative juices just don't flow. Which, I suppose, isn't strictly true, since in my case the 'creative juices' are in fact cans of Pepsi.

Ah, blessed fruit of the Pepsi vine.

When it absolutely, positively has to get done, I grab a Pepsi and ride that rocket fuel into neuron overload. I love the stuff. And apparently it loves me. Truth be told, I feel like a different man when I have a Pepsi. Which is odd, because my wife often points out that she wishes I were a different man when I have a Pepsi.

I used to drink Coke, as in "Coca Cola" but it really doesn't do it for me anymore. As for other foul perversions like "Mountain spew" I'll leave those to the truly deranged or morally irredeemable like Harlock. (I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide if Harlock is the former, the latter, or indeed both.)

Jasona drinks an odd variety of fruit-laden yuppie juice if I recall corectly, and Ra probably drinks wine. He has the look about him of a man who drinks wine, and I salute him for that. As for the preferred beverage of Ms. Hussey, I can only begin to speculate. It probably steams, though.

Now one thing I never realized was that the preference for Pepsi versus Coke is somewhat regional. Down here in Texas, (Great Republic of,) folks generally quaff Coke. Pepsi, I have been told, is the kind of thing they drink over in California. However, since I only recently moved from Mr. Schwarzenegger's back yard, I suspect the locals are hoping that at some point I'll switch to the 'right one' and start drinking Coke. Ain't gonna happen, but I'll let then hold on to their hope for now.

So, enough of this mindless and, I suspect, rather tedious rambling.

In the words of Tiny Tim, "God bless us, every one."

Although, of course, he was saying that at Christmas and not Thanksgiving. But even so.

Oh, and for the record, Tiny Tim never once drank Pepsi or Coke. He was probably more a Dew drinker, if I have to put money on it. Doubtless gimped his legs doing some "radical air" on his snowboard while listening to grunge.

Yeah Tim, well maybe if you drank a bit more Pepsi you wouldn't always be whining about not starving to death.

Damn liberal. Always wanting a handout. If he had any backbone he'd be out there like Ebenezer, creating wealth through honest enlightened self-interest. But no. He's hanging around the fireplace coughing and rasping and hobbling around on his government-issued crutches and generally being a drain on society. Get out and get a job you little loafer.

Yeah. Happy Christmas too.

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