Self-mutilation? (was Thanksgiving)

[dfrankiswork at netscape.net]

Amy wrote:

> That's the basic idea as I always learned it (ad nauseam, as Barb 
> said--how many times did we make turkeys out of our hands traced 
onto 
> construction paper?).

Er, did you make the turkeys first then trace them, or the other way 
round?

And yet another common language division: what's construction paper?

David, who quite liked Tom Bombadil when he (David) was 14