Turkeys

[puff_not_snuff]

Do you know WKRP in Cincinnati? The station dropped turkeys from a plane to promote the station but turkeys cannot fly.

 

[Waning Embers]

turkeys cannot fly.

Not completely true. I do remember that episode though.?

 

[STP]

… and they mounted a counter attack ?

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Great episode…”as God is my witness, I thought turkey’s could fly”.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

… and they mounted a counter attack ?

I doubt Venus Fly Trap ever trapped any turkeys.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Not completely true. I do remember that episode though.?

You know, I remember seeing that episode back in the day. I loved WKRP, especially crushing on Baily Quarters. But, I remember thinking WTF, turkeys can fly. Any turkey hunter should know this. They would have at least been able to glide in. But, the problem is that domesticated turkeys raised on a farm can't. And, in the episode, they were brought in from a turkey farm.

So, Les Nesman just made the same logical mistake that anyone who knew at least a little about turkeys would have made. But, they didn't exactly elaborate for the viewers. Maybe because it wouldn't have been as funny to have to explain. But, yes wild turkeys can fly, at least somewhat.

 

[Waning Embers]

the problem is that domesticated turkeys raised on a farm can't

Ours could well enough to escape their enclosure but the little shits couldn't fly well enough to avoid being caught.

 

[STP]

While a myth that Benjamin Franklin purposed a turkey as a national bird/symbol, it’s interesting that he favored it over a bald eagle, thinking it is “a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America”. He wrote that the bald eagle is bird of bad moral character, and does not get his living honestly as he is too lazy to fish for himself.

 

[Waning Embers]

While a myth that Benjamin Franklin purposed a turkey as a national bird/symbol, it’s interesting that he favored it over a bald eagle, thinking it is “a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America”. He wrote that the bald eagle is bird of bad moral character, and does not get his living honestly as he is too lazy to fish for himself.

He obviously never visited Kentucky.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Not exactly cross country birds, but turkeys can fly.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

You know, I remember seeing that episode back in the day. I loved WKRP, especially crushing on Baily Quarters. But, I remember thinking WTF, turkeys can fly. Any turkey hunter should know this. They would have at least been able to glide in. But, the problem is that domesticated turkeys raised on a farm can't. And, in the episode, they were brought in from a turkey farm.

So, Les Nesman just made the same logical mistake that anyone who knew at least a little about turkeys would have made. But, they didn't exactly elaborate for the viewers. Maybe because it wouldn't have been as funny to have to explain. But, yes wild turkeys can fly, at least somewhat.

Dear sir, you should receive a tin of C&D's Ye Olde Turkey Giblets for that clarification.

 

[STP]

He obviously never visited Kentucky.

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Yeah, I thought the same… Every wildlife show that I’ve seen highlighting an eagle always has footage of them dive-bombing into the water for fish, but evidently they’ll also steal food off of hawks and other animals.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

You know, I remember seeing that episode back in the day. I loved WKRP, especially crushing on Baily Quarters. But, I remember thinking WTF, turkeys can fly. Any turkey hunter should know this. They would have at least been able to glide in. But, the problem is that domesticated turkeys raised on a farm can't. And, in the episode, they were brought in from a turkey farm.

So, Les Nesman just made the same logical mistake that anyone who knew at least a little about turkeys would have made. But, they didn't exactly elaborate for the viewers. Maybe because it wouldn't have been as funny to have to explain. But, yes wild turkeys can fly, at least somewhat.

Less is more…lol!

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Not exactly cross country birds, but turkeys can fly.

Perhaps not when dropped from 2000 feet

 

[Waning Embers]

Perhaps not when dropped from 2000 feet

They would cover quite a bit of ground upon impact.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Anyone in sales has probably seen terrible sales and marketing that failed horribly, but the management were on board

 

[puff_not_snuff]

True marketing playas would of used Turduckens.

 

[bullet08]

That was a good episode.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Perhaps not when dropped from 2000 feet

They have the physical ability to glide from that height, a long ways. Whether wild turkeys would have the instinct to do so when dropped from a plane is a different question.

Domestic turkeys: Not a chance.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

They have the physical ability to glide from that height, a long ways. Whether wild turkeys would have the instinct to do so when dropped from a plane is a different question.

Domestic turkeys: Not a chance.

Good to know in case I do a Thanksgiving Turkey giveaway.