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I should have guessed! 
only to inspire divisiveness on the lovely day after Thanksgiving.
And now we have this butthead shooting people in CO.
I feel as though I have much to be thankful for. It saddens me that so many feel they have so little left to lose that they things like shoot innocent people 
I've never had a problem either way.
it's what I eat too much of yesterday.
I stand corrected. 
Live long and leftover!
In fact that may be going on for a few days, ham and dressing for breakfast, turkey and ham sandwich for lunch and turkey tacos for dinner.
Because I'm still concerned about the Deepwater Horizon spill and the subsequent chemicals they used to "neutralize" it.
Sooner or later, though, I'll have enough faith to be putting de oyster in dere 
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Martha Stewart's career must really be in the crapper if so many are getting this one wrong.
I recommend selling any Martha Stewart Omnimedia stock you may own before it's too late. Just don't tell anyone where you got this tip!
its stuffing, if its cooked outside the bird its dressing. 
So for me it's usually been 'stuffing,' since stuffing is what goes inside the turkey.
that citrus blends well
We have similar chef's hearts 
I don't like it Cajun style, which is celery, onion and bell pepper, because I absolutely detest bell pepper.
I do it as the traditional Mirepoix - celery, onion and carrots. I also copiously use garlic
(The Great Turkey Chef Wars) and gave us our delightful library girl. Little bit of history there.
Which is weird I now realize after reading the thread. I grew up with it cooked outside the bird, and that's still how I do it myself. Yet, it was called then, and still is now, stuffing. 
I also grew up drinking "pop" and not cola, or coke.
I'm a tea person myself, but when I was a kid I admit to having more than a couple cherry cokes and cream sodas at my grandparents house.
My grandparents were so naughty. They fed us donuts for breakfast at times! We cherished them for their decadence.
Iced was how we drank it until we got older. Then in the winter we added lemon and had it hot, too. Caffeine was never a worry for us as kids I guess.
Now I make and drink unsweetened green tea, just because I really like the flavor. I also drink it iced now almost always.
It's neutral, and more accurate
Perfect!
You have to eat it with a shirt and tie on.
When I was a kid, everything was stuffing. No dressing. It was not a speech error when my mother said she was making the stuffing in a separate pan. The word drifted from its etymology.
Neighbors from farther south called everything dressing. Even if the turkey was served stuffed, it was stuffed with dressing. Again, no speech error. That's what the symbol ("dressing" meant to them (its "referent" .
If you made too much stuffing (or "dressing" to go in the bird, you'd cook some outside the bird in the same pan or in a separate pan. It seemed silly to refer to one portion of the stuff as stuffing and the other as dressing. I knew parents of friends who called the stuff inside the bird "dressing" and the stuff outside the bird, if necessary for ambiguity avoidance, "side dressing."
My wife, from a different part of the country (but whose parents were from the NE, where I hail from) calls it all "stuffing." On Thursday I cooked the stuffing outside of the bird, since the bird was part-frozen when I hove it into the oven. Usually there's excess stuffing, but most goes in the bird (or where the neck was) or even in the armpits.
It's like "dived" and "dove," "slept" and "sleeped," use of the subjunctive. There's regional variation and that's sometimes passed down in families. There's innovation that's spread across the country, driving local variation extinct in some cases or giving it a class distinction in others.
Some people even when I was a kid hewed to the etymology. There was stuffing in the bird. Dressing outside the bird. Some were fairly recent immigrants or were the educated, homogenized folk. For them, the stuffing morphed as it was removed, if cooked in-bird. "Have some dressing!"--and the lump was shaped strangely like the inside of a turkey. If scooped out of the bird, it was "stuffing." This struck most of us as foolish.
At some point the etymology asserted itself. Possibly when the (geographic) dialects mixed enough. Language hates synonyms. My soc linguistics prof said his prof said there was one true synonym in English--a small mugwort that grew in a very small area of English. Two villages each had different names for it, but by 1940 they'd merged into one village. No longer did the two names say which village you were from. By now that synonym has either died away or bifurcated.
If dressing and stuffing were synonyms, they'd quickly unmerge to mean different things. The etymology would provide a plausible motive. Stuffing is inside; dressing is outside (since dress is outside). I figure that "dressing" refers just to the final stages of dressing the animal for cooking, the first stages of which are beheading, bleeding out, gutting, skinning (or plucking)--dressing the turkey, and what you see at table is the turkey stuffed (with "dressings" or "trimmings"
They could also unmerge by type. Corn-based versus other-based. (Mostly wheat bread, but wild-rice stuffing is great.)
Language is diverse. I take mine with relish.