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I can’t wait until Thanksgiving.
by vibrio 5mo ago
I can’t wait until Thanksgiving.
- PyWoody 5mo agoAs God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
- justbees 5mo agolike wet sacks of cement...
- asah 5mo agoI always wondered if there was a relationship between this and the Oregon exploding whale in 1970 ? https://www.google.com/search?q=whale+explosion+oregon https://www.google.com/search?q=whale+explosion+oregon
- justbees 5mo agoEvidently it's from a true story. Luckily not actually thrown from a helicopter! https://classictvhistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/turkeys-away-an-oral-history/ https://classictvhistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/turkeys-aw... CLARKE BROWN: The turkey drop was actually a real incident. ... Although the turkeys were thrown off the back of a truck, as opposed to how it was depicted on the [show].
- mauvehaus 5mo agoThey can, but they don't gain altitude so good. I had one fly across the road at top-of-windshield level. Since I figured it would just clear or just glance off, I did nothing to avoid it. Unfortunately, I had a roof rack on. Fortunately, I was able to find replacement parts for the rack on eBay. The turkey didn't appear to be harmed. After tumbling ass over teakettle to the ground, it walked into the field on the side of the road looking for all the world like a cat that wanted you to forget you'd just seen it do something beneath its dignity.
- PyWoody 5mo agohttps://youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg https://youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg
- canucker2016 5mo agoClearer, upscaled version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1cJdH6ffg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1cJdH6ffg
- ghaff 5mo agoTurkeys are one of the animals in that general category that, knowing what we know now, you look at them and you're like "How could smart scientists not look at them and not see that they are obviously a form of dinosaur?"
- grosswait 5mo agoEven their footprints look like a dinosaur track
- ghaff 5mo agoIt's almost worse that, if you go back a ways, a lot of the theories were that extinction was fairly incremental--even comet/meteor notwithstanding. So, given essentially total extinction, convergent evolution may not have been a bad theory and may not even have been totally wrong.
- QuesnayJr 5mo agoThe idea that birds are descended from dinosaurs is nearly as old as evolution itself, first being proposed by Thomas Huxley in 1868 (Origin of the Species dates from 1859). The only reason there was a competing evolutionary theory is because it was erroneously thought that birds have a clavicle and dinosaurs don't, so instead it was proposed that birds and dinosaurs have a common ancestor, and that dinosaurs lost the clavicle. Now that they have excavated many more bones paleontologists have since discovered therapod clavicles.
- SilentM68 5mo agoLoved WKRP in Cincinnati. Always looked forward to the hog report. Not only can turkeys fly they bounce, too. A lot of unknowns, at the time, made appearances on that show before becoming famous themselves.
- wiremine 5mo agoOh thank you, I came here to make that joke. Great show.
- TurdF3rguson 5mo agoI was thinking of this episode the other day and wondering how it could have stuck with all of us independently after all these years given that there was no social media / meme sharing back then.
- mcculley 5mo agoThere were plenty of reruns. Not as much content back then as we have now.