Being thanked is in some ways harder than giving thanks. It can feel a little awkward to be so gratitued. Over-demonstrative hanky-thankery, I think, can seem down-right gratitewd. When it gets to the point where special thanksgivery is required, that’s pure gratefulishness. I mean, just say your peace and sit down — don’t act all thanktified, whether you’re in a thanktuary or not. Otherwise, some thanker management might be in order. Of course, one can expect things to get a little out of hand during a thank holiday, but it’s important to stay thanguine and greetful toward all one’s relatives, however much private thangst one might be feeling. That’s why we feast! It’s all about the gratitouille, the celebration of harvest and plenty — for which, and because of which, we all must be great-full.
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Love this, thanks!
Wonderful wordplay! And, oh, I do know what you mean.
Thanks, Jean and Lucy. Good to know I wasn’t just amusing myself here. I rather think one or two of these might be useful additions to the lexicon…
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……many tanks and much grittitude for this, Dave.
Tell me about this commenting system and see my Blaug, pleez! I’m desperate to find some new system to replace the old Haloscan/Echo/JDKit (now gone forever).
Hi Natalie – Glad you liked this! I’m afraid the comments system wouldn’t work for you — it’s part of a WordPress plugin. Your best bet is probably Disqus, I think.
Disqus doesn’t work for me unfortunately. I tried it and it does show up but they only allow one box per page so I can’t have comments under more than one post.
Then I’m afraid it might be time for you to either reconsider the inclusion of comments, or acknowledge the Blogger mirror site as the true blog.
this is that of which you spoke…clevah