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cr The Oklahoma State Forestry Department would like to express our sincere sympathy to all those affected by the Bonfire tragedy. J&sL E6b«5teO THE TEXAS ELAQ ELIES AT HALE-MAST EOK THE AggiES LOST IN THE BONEIRE TRAgEDY Sincerely, The Staff of Strictly Texas www.strictlytexas.com a// iruiee IN TOWN service, parts, and accessories for ail Japanese motorcycles, and all ATVs & PWCs iw 01:0 r cycles ★ 10-7 TU-F 10-5 sat ./lee /tie/uip Enjoy a delicious fresh meal at Souper Salad and get an even fresher deal! Between now and December 31, just show your Texas A&M I.D. card and Get a 10% discount on your Souper Salad meal. It’s our way of saying thank you and “Happy Holidays!” •J* Salad Bar with 60 fresh and homemade items 4* Soup Bar with four delicious homemade soups 4* Gigantic baked potatoes with your choice of toppings •J* Freshly baked cornbread, gingerbread and blueberry bread 4* Strawberry shortcake with whipped topping SouperIsaiao! You’ve Never Had It So Fresh. 1727 S. 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Tons of Door Prizes Chances to Win Free New Year’s Eve Cover Charges and $1000 Cash We will be open Thursday Night, Thanksgiving, with regular drink specials 1600 B South College, Bryan 823-6111 Page 6 • Tuesday, November 23, 1999 A GGIELIFE Real men ""W Jk TT 4 ' Wear teat Enjoy Thanksgiving, but please — celebrate in modem WHY WAIT WEEKS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE T0?| dA d 2 to 3 doy turnaround with appointment B j ^ w ■ l-i MJ It’s time for Thanksgiv ing! No, really. Remember Thanksgiving? It’s the holi day that finally warranted you to wear a turkey cos tume and prance around a stage for half an hour while you were in elementary school. It’s the time when you marveled at the bravery and gratitude of pilgrims and their Indian friends. immmM Unfortunately, many have forgotten Thanks giving is more than a time for supermarkets to get an early start on capitalizing a more prof itable holiday: Christmas. Many have lost the sense of magic this time of year entails. Maybe this is because of our circumstances, maybe be cause of schedule conflicts with critical football games featuring teams who have no hope for making the playoffs, or maybe because we get arrested every year after trying to relive the old holiday spirit by barging into an elementary school to prance around in a turkey suit. And maybe the jail sentence and fine would not be so high if, after realizing the costume did not fit anymore, we opted for the pilgrim cos tume instead of simply painting our skin brown ■ and gluing a red glove to our chin. Maybe the police officers had a better re sponse to your latest performance than did your schoolmates to your original. Maybe everyone was just laughing with you. Maybe the officers really could process you faster if you flapped your arms and gobbled. And maybe the whole thing would have gone better if you had acted sometime near Thanksgiving, instead of March. In the midst of “maybes,” Thanksgiving does feature some absolutes — time-tested tra ditions which have endured countless genera tions of enjoyment. Fortunately, the holiday has maintained its traditional namesake and not “TUrkey Day,” the quick-fix, just-add-wa- ter, microwave-dinner solution to a word with more than two syllables. Calling the holiday “TUrkey Day” does harm to the celebration — not only by confusing oth ers to believe it is Marlon Brando’s birthday, but also by excluding the essential spirit of grati tude. And a Thanksgiving holiday without grati tude is like a Marx Brothers’ movie without a rich spinster; in either situation you just want to punch a mute cousin in the face. One aspect of Thanksgiving not subject to “maybe,” or corporate takeover, is food. Every one from grandchildren to Uncle Larry tends to eat too much while mothers across the country, regardless of socioeconomic or glandular back ground, suddenly become Hildegard, lifegiver and one-person food bank. Every ailment known to mankind is solved by food. “Don’t feel well, Henry? Here, have some pie. Susie, you’ve got a sore throat? I’ll make you some soup. Oh, you lost your job? Here, have some beans. No, they’re good beans. Bil ly! You look like you have a cold! Quick, eat some potatoes. Anorexia? Is that a rock band? I don’t want any MTV talk. Here, eat some Ken tucky Fried Chocolate. ” Mother-types seasonally become aggressive during their food preparations. They mutate into the Napoleon of the kitchen, demanding absolute subjugation from whoever dares to enter their domain and expecting ceaseless praise for their efforts. Sure, Napoleon did some incredible stuff, but he wound up secluded and deranged on St. He lena island. Like Napoleon, these mother char acters have good intentions and impressive rep utations, but who knows what devious; power-hungry thoughts they entertain while stirring pudding? “Eat, weaklings, eat. Soon you will grow weak and unable to defy my de mands. And then the toilet seat will always be left down! First the bathroom, then the world! And now to fantasize about Mel Gibson vyhile I check on the turk*(Editors’ note: Mr. Huval’s beverage has been more amply sedated. We apologize for any inconvenience.)* The hallmark and magic of any Thanksgiv ing meal is when one inadvertently finds a trea sure within the main course; a simple, slender sliver of elegance which, when contested for by two people, has the breaking ability to grant the most intimate wish and make dreams come true. I speak, of course, of nothing other than RUBEN DELUNAffnt die giant cake with the stripper inside.U more exciting is the age-old wishbones viid that when two peel tion! it has bei make a wish and then pull apart n wic. tlte individual with the larger pieceisjdl his or iter wish. I his is the magic ofW ing, deep within the turkey, so live'" 1 " 1 tor something good and otherwise like a sports car, or a tropical cruiseorai CPA. Just be aware that some wistear quite worth wishing for. “Jacob, you won! What did pwislifd “The bigger half... yaaay! IVfcL still here!” j And the magic still can be here Be thankful for what there is. Have a' cornbread, wislt a little more extravaj joy the parade a little more (just do Uncle Larry for a float). Holiday end® just like sobriety and finding others attr;’ it is all a matter of perspective. 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