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Title: Turkeys can FLY ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 10 May 2017, 20:10:19: WTF....... [attachimg=1]

How could I have not known this ?
Title: Re: Turkeys can FLY ?
Post by: digi on Wed, 10 May 2017, 20:44:30: (https://media.giphy.com/media/uJRt86shr5XUs/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Turkeys can FLY ?
Post by: Leslieann on Wed, 10 May 2017, 21:09:06: Quote from: tp4tissue on Wed, 10 May 2017, 20:10:19
WTF....... (Attachment Link)

How could I have not known this ?
Because you are used to seeing the over stuffed ones on farms.

Natural turkeys don't look like a Butterball, and while they can fly, it's not for long distance. Chickens too, but for an even shorter distance.
Title: Re: Turkeys can FLY ?
Post by: noisyturtle on Wed, 10 May 2017, 21:30:21: Wait a minute! Are you telling me pasta doesn't grow wild like that and people don't walk their dogs for exercise?!?
Title: Re: Turkeys can FLY ?
Post by: xtrafrood on Wed, 10 May 2017, 21:58:57: That glorious moment when you see Typha for the first time and immediately wanted to pick all the corndogs :eek:
Title: Re: Turkeys can FLY ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 11 May 2017, 07:10:26: Quote from: csmertx on Wed, 10 May 2017, 21:58:57
That glorious moment when you see Typha for the first time and immediately wanted to pick all the corndogs :eek:

Of course the australians would call it cumbungi .. hhahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaahah
Title: Re: Turkeys can FLY ?
Post by: Findecanor on Thu, 11 May 2017, 10:13:28: Turkey could "fly" if all Turks used LSD at the same time. :p

The word "turkey" for a species of bird is yet another use that stems from confusion, like "New Zealand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland)", "cocoa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobroma_cacao)" and "America (http://americaisnotusa.com/)".
Title: Re: Turkeys can FLY ?
Post by: Slash Emperor on Thu, 11 May 2017, 10:27:30: Yep. I have turkeys in my neighborhood all the time and they like to fly when cars get too close.
Title: Re: Turkeys can FLY ?
Post by: fohat.digs on Thu, 11 May 2017, 17:33:40: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=49604.msg1318608#msg1318608 (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=49604.msg1318608#msg1318608)