A potato bug? (Just a guess)
Why Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? The joke has nothing to do with them.
You gonna put your eye out with that thing.
I'll take your dog when you're ready to throw him out.
Amtrain wrote:
What is funny is that it was based on a real incident where a radio station actually dropped turkeys.
The last line of the explanation is a HOOT!
CLARKE BROWN: The turkey drop was actually a real incident. It was at a shopping center in Atlanta; I think it was Broadview Plaza, which no longer exists. It was a Thanksgiving promotion. We thought that we could throw these live turkeys out into the crowd for their Thanksgiving dinners. All of us, naïve and uneducated, thought that turkeys could fly. Of course, they went just fuckin’ splat.
What is funny is that it was based on a real incid... (
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Complete story:
The turkey drop was actually a real incident. It was at a shopping center in Atlanta; I think it was Broadview Plaza, which no longer exists. It was a Thanksgiving promotion.
We thought that we could throw these live turkeys out into the crowd for their Thanksgiving dinners. All of us, naïve and uneducated, thought that turkeys could fly. Of course, they went just fuckin’ splat.
People were laughing at us, not with us. But it became a legend. In reality, the turkeys were thrown off the back of a truck.
So, the real story is not as glamorous as the WKRP version but the lesson is the same: Turkeys can’t fly.