“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Apparently, turkeys can fly. Well, at least wild turkeys can fly. We have some wild turkeys around this area, and I’ve never seen them flying, but I guess they do. I read a story from Canada (Niagara-on-the-Lake, actually, which is, by the way, a very nice little town to visit, and only about 45 minutes from where I live ) where a wild turkey flew into a school bus. Fortunately, no one was hurt (well, they were all a bit shocked, and one girl was taken to the hospital after being hit with some flying glass, but nothing too bad), and the turkey just walked away.
Remember that ep from WKRP in Cincinnati? I loved that ep, Turkeys Away, which orginally aired on October 30, 1978. Mr. Carlson (Gordon Jump) had this idea for a Thanksgiving turkey giveaway. Les Nessman (Richard Sanders), the news guy, was reporting live from the grocery store parking lot while turkeys were thrown out of a helicopter, with a banner attached to it saying “Happy Thanksgiving From WKRP”. Now that would have been crazy enough if these had been dead turkeys, what with something that heavy falling from the sky into a parking lot full of cars and people. But they threw live turkeys out of the helicopter, not realizing that turkeys can’t fly. It was funny and scary and gross, all at the same time. It was great ep and even better, you can watch it here at hulu.
It got me to thinking about how we remember the craziest things. I mean, that episode was back in the 70’s and yet, not only did I immediately think of it when I read the article, the person writing the article mentioned it as well. Clearly, sitcoms
