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And what better way to greet your relatives than sharing a punny one-liner or knock-knock joke?
These 100 Turkey Day jokes will keep your cousins laughing far after the food is gobbled from the table:
Thanksgiving jokes
How does Thanksgiving always end?
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2024
The big picture: There are only a handful of local shops dedicated to holiday decorating, as most of that business has been gobbled up by big box stores.
—Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
Seats open up reservations open the first day of each month at 10 a.m. PST and are gobbled up quickly.
—Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
As the business grew, its headquarters spread, gobbling up an entire block’s worth of small buildings and wrapping the block designed by a master of the corporate Renaissance style, Napoleon LeBrun.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Nov. 2024
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2024
The big picture: There are only a handful of local shops dedicated to holiday decorating, as most of that business has been gobbled up by big box stores.
—Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
Seats open up reservations open the first day of each month at 10 a.m. PST and are gobbled up quickly.
—Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
As the business grew, its headquarters spread, gobbling up an entire block’s worth of small buildings and wrapping the block designed by a master of the corporate Renaissance style, Napoleon LeBrun.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Nov. 2024
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Astronomers Reveal First Image Of The Black Hole At Center Of The Milky Way By Tom Howarth Science Reporter (Nature) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled the closest-ever look at a monster black hole devouring its cosmic surroundings.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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While pimento cheese, gumbo, and Grandma’s buttermilk biscuits will always be delicious and devoured down to the very last crumb no matter where they're served, good food is certainly more fun to eat in a beautiful space.Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 2 Dec. 2024
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Then tune in to your breath, inhaling and exhaling slowly through your nose.Melanie Mannarino, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2024
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State health officials warn that drinking or accidentally inhaling raw milk infected with H5N1 could lead to illness.Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Now revitalized, Madeline confronts Helen, who has also gulped the elixir, and wild smackdowns and realignments follow.Frank Rizzo, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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With its 33 Raptor engines gulping 40,000 pounds of liquid oxygen and methane fuel per second, the Super Heavy-Starship majestically climbed away to the east over the Gulf of Mexico atop a brilliant plume of white-hot flame and a churning cloud of exhaust.William Harwood, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Gobble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobble. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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