Thursday, November 27, 2025

“As God Is My Witness…” 🦃

(Based, by the way, on a true story. The writer worked at a radio station in Dallas, where management decided to give away turkeys as a Thanksgiving promotion. They dumped turkeys on the road out of a truck, not a helicopter.🚁 And they were frozen, not live. 🦃)
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  1. The Thought Criminal4:40 AM

    I got into a big Thanksgiving day brawl at the baby blue blog over this when I said that turkeys can actually fly rather well. The city guys and gals didn't want to believe it. One of the more heart stopping experiences of my life was while I was walking across a grown up field on a quiet, peaceful afternoon and startled a large flock of wild turkeys and they all took off right next to me. I believe I guessed more than thirty or so of them.

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  2. Rmj2:02 AM

    I’d always understood that wild turkeys can fly, and were rather wily (leading to the tale that Franklin thought they should be the national symbol. Dunno if that’s true, either.), while the birds bred for the table are too fat to fly, and (literally) too stupid to come in out of the rain.

    But I can’t verify any of that (never tried to), though I’m sure wild turkeys are not dodos 🦤.

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