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Not in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Explore the quirky side of Thanksgiving Day parades with flame eaters and the lively Get a Life marching band!

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Well, Sean, JoAnne, Risa and Mark are probably off all getting ready to chomp down on lots of turkey, so as I'm holding the fort I get to be more excessive in my irrelevance than normal. Woo-hoo! Here are some things that you won't see in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parades that will be all over the news (including outside the USA) tomorrow. These are from the wonderful Doo Dah parade I told you about earlier. There was a team of flamer eater/thrower people. Yes, her hoop is on fire at points around the edges:

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The famous barbecue and hibachi grill team.... impressive as always...accompanied by their teams who lay down bursts of cannon fire....hot dogs and other tasty cooked stuff shoot from these cannons into the crowd. No, really.

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This was simply lovely. I think that there was a political statement about housing somewhere in there, but I missed the sign.....

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A simply bizarre set of wonderful homemade bike monstrosities (there was also a political point there, but I missed the sign):

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The "Get a Life" marching band, all the way from Portland Oregon, showing that seniors can strut their stuff, shake what their mama gave them, and twirl their batons just as well as the skinny teenage wanna-be prom queens.... wonderful (how come a crowd always goes nuts when people play the Village People's "YMCA"?):

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This painter turns up every year and paints as he pushes his easel along:

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A few smaller and no less clever things:

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There was a ton more. I took over 200 photos. But I'll spare you from them...! -cvj

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