Odd Lots, Thanksgiving Edition

[jeff_duntemann]

• Some brilliant if loopy stuff came out of the 70s, and one of the most brilliant is the episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati where they shoved live turkeys out of a helicopter and were surprised when the turkeys soon hit terminal velocity and went splat. (No turkeys were harmed--nor even shown--in that episode.) Thanks to Frank Glover for the link.
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Comments

[chris_gerrib]

My dad the ex-hunter and Boy Scout tells me that even wild turkeys don't fly much. Mostly they fly short hops to escape predators or clear obstacles.

[jeff_duntemann]

I see wild turkeys fairly regularly on my hikes into the still-empty land on the slopes of Cheyenne Mountain. They seem to like running around under the tree canopy, which makes flying problematic. Still, they're very tall and look very meaty, if not as beachball-shaped as their dumb factory-farmed relatives.