<b>Morning Chatter</b>

Quotes of the Day -- The Gratitude Edition Happy Thanksgiving fishies. We've gathered some of our favorites this morning for your reading pleasure. We'll see you back here next week unless WaPo's Ezra Klein grows a mustache, Politico's Ben White gets in another fight with a hotel desk clerk, Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief David Corn goes bald or something else unseemly happens. Elderly woman grabs journo's thigh "70 y.o. woman seated next to me at fancy dinner grabbed my thigh. i asked 'is something wrong' she said 'just friendly' and didn't let go!" -- ABC7's Stephen Tschida. Important Question to Ponder: "In the age of smartphones, why are there still people yelling out their cars windows asking me for directions?" -- TWT's Emily Miller. Ode to ex-boyfriends "Dear all ex-boyfriends: WHY COULDN'T YOU FUCKING TURDS BE HERE GETTING KILLED BY STRAY CRANES RIGHT NOW." -- Daskrap.com's Moe Tkacik. Important Question to Ponder II: "Pundit friends is it kosher to ask TV chauffeurs to roll down the windows & blast biggie smalls on their way to TV hits?" -- InTheseTimes labor journo Mike Elk in an Al Jazeera ordered Lincoln Town Car. Bureau Chief defends Christmas "I get it's hip to hate on Christmas. but that's like hating grandmas. I mean, grandma has some crazy ass ideas, but she's STILL GRANDMA." -- BuzzFeed Bureau Chief John Stanton. A journo's dark thoughts: He wants to scare the presidential pardoned turkey "Shouldn't the president maintain at least a little suspense with the turkey pardon and enter the room with a large knife or neck wringer?" -- WSJ's Neil King. Nice idea, Neil! Fake Jim V. weighs in on military sex scandal "Really having a hard time separating Gen. John Allen and @jonallendc today," writes Politico's Seung Min Kim. To which Fake Jim VandeHei responds: "Hint: The General is the one getting laid." Necessary Tweet of the Day: Pre-Thanksgiving fatness "Put on my suit and saw how ungodly fat I've gotten. Took a Xanax so now I don't care so much." -- MetroWeekly co-publisher Sean Bugg. How to Make it All About Me... See if you can guess who is being all self-centered right before Thanksgiving. Plus, a convo between two journos... How to Make it All About Me?: "So it turns out the shirtless FBI agent is in my book, "Threat Matrix," p. 250, for his work on the Millennium Plot." -- Washingtonian Editor Garrett Graff, who then performs the douchey move of linking to his book on Amazon. An editor's strange philosophy... "New law: all crazy people & most right wingers wld disappear if only TPM wld stop writing abt them #cocoonlogic." -- Talking Points Memo Editor and Founder Josh Marshall. A Convo Between Two Journos HuffPost's Eliot Nelson: "If I don't complain about Amtrak's wifi, will my train still arrive?" HuffPost's Sam Stein: "From my experience, yes. still complaining=therapeutic."

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