The Top 10 Ways We
Celebrate Thanksgiving in 2105

10> The President of GoogleSoft pardons the national turkey.

9> Honor our forefathers who came to this planet years ago on a single spaceship, the DidBloom.

8> Instead of your daily all-in-one NoMoreFood(TM) pill you take three, and your Biosuit suddenly feels uncomfortable.

7> Place frozen turkey in special solar-cooking bag; then five seconds before mealtime, teleport it to the sun and back.

6> Everybody sends a virtual holographic copy of themselves that has been altered to get along splendidly with the rest of the family to the Thanksgiving dinner.

5> After one bad year of trying to genetically engineer the biggest, juciest turkey, now humans everywhere hide as 500-pound turkeys try to cook us.

4> Deciding whether you like white-turkey-flavored nutritio

cubes or dark.

3> Once again apologize to the sweet potato people for what we did to their ancestors.

2> Forget deep-frying the turkey — photon cooking is all the rage.

and the Number 1 Way We Celebrate Thanksgiving in 2105…

1> Same as now: Mom burns the turkey, dad drinks too much wine and Uncle Bob accidentally wipes out the civilizations on three planets. (He really needs to do something about that intestinal gas problem.)

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Credits:

Selected from 32 submissions from 10 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

James Knowles, Bellingham, WA — 1
Kate Melnyk, Tewksbury, MA — 2
Mark David, Redwood City, CA — 3, 7
Kyros Starr, Everett, WA — 4
Peter Heltzer, Buffalo Grove, IL — 5
G. Griebenow, Johannesburg, S. Africa — 6, 8, 9 (Hat trick!)
Eric Akawie, Annandale, VA — 10
Dave Oberhart, Durham, NC — SF List Moderator