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No justice!
No peace!
Wild Turkeys
I've seen big packs of wild turkeys that have stopped traffic near the Leo Jay Community Golf Course off exit 15 on the Pike a couple times this year. Just looked up what you call a pack of Turkeys and I got the following: A pack of wild turkeys is commonly referred to as a "rafter" a "gang" or just a "flock". A pack of feral cats (something that has come up on this site before) is called a "clowder".
I swear-
The writer says 'I swear' like wild turkeys don't exist and we're not gonna believe them. I'm laughing.
um, hey snarky snarks
yeah i think the writer said "i swear" in reference to the irony of it being Thanksgiving, where, you know, you eat turkeys? yeah.
you're pretty cool though.
Good chuckle.
Oh man, is that you Uncle Tony? That's classic.
Wild Turkeys and Ben Franklin
After reading this post and then seeing a bunch of Wild Turkeys before Thanksgiving dinner this year- in Belmont- of all places- I got curious about them and looked them up on Wikipedia. Interesting birds. I did not know that they fly and actually nest in trees at night. But anyway- in the Wikipedia entry at the bottom is this letter from Ben Franklin to his daughter regarding the subject of the National Bird and this is what he had to say:
“ For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.
With all this Injustice, he is never in good Case but like those among Men who live by Sharping & Robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District. He is therefore by no means a proper Emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our Country...
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on."
Ben Franklin letter to his daughter Sara Bache in 1784.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Turkey