Posted on 11/23/2017 1:40:42 PM PST by bgill
Les Nessman, "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" Thanksgiving!"
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Oh, don’t you remember? Those turkeys were just good at climbing trees! I sneaked out quietly one night to spy on them, and there they were, climbing up cedar trees, one leg at a time!
Turkeys are simply good climbers!
;-)
It wasn’t “Les”. It was “Mr. Carlson”. Thus show should be run every year during prime time.
I worked at a radio station and every character was represented at the station that were on WKRP except the owner was an old man.
I raised 20 turkeys from chicks last year. There were 15 white butcher turkeys and 5 heritage turkeys that look like wild turkeys. All of the heritage turkeys could fly and roosted up on too of the barn.
Yep. Wild turkeys can climb AND fly.
When I was a boy, there was a farmer on my uncle’s land who raised cows, grass, and corn and had about twenty turkeys in the barn which were slaughtered for Thanksgiving.
Those guys were carefully contained, so they couldn’t fly and hardly had a chance to walk. The idea was to keep them tender for Thanksgiving.
Lots and lots of wild turkeys around my house. I see them almost everyday. They fly just fine. I see them fly across the fields and over the roads with ease.
Good show. I actually remember watching this thanksgiving episode when it first aired.
Classic!
I’m guessing that up into a tree isn’t quite the same as dropped from 2,000 feet!
LMAO!
I miss that hsow! Especially blondie
Yes turkeys fly- and they are powerful fliers too- they roost in treetops and last i looked i’ve never seen rope ladders to the tops
They can fly except they’re not to good at it. Think Iraqi Air Force dodging the USAF, USN & USMC aircraft.
They use tree spikes.
lol- those aren’t as easy to spot
That’s been my experience too. I’ve seen turkeys fly, not well or far, but the can glide down slope fairly easily.
And if you are ever under them when they take off, you’d think there were Pterodactyls taking off above you. Not a sight I expected to see, even with the abundance of turkeys around.
The brilliance of the skit was the parody of the Hindenburg disaster. Even when the show first aired there were many who didn’t get it, and I suspect there are very few young people today who have any knowledge of that historical tragedy.
That quote is from Mr. Carlton, the station owner, not Les Nesman.
Now that looks like something I'd watch. Did your community of aviation news buffs have an equivalent to the Copper Cob Award?
No, but I was known as the only private pilot to survive a check ride with "Preacher Jack" Eggspuler, head of the Ohio State flight department. Most of the student pilots got the CFI.
Doctor Eggspuler had been the subject of several of my TV news stories about OSU, and so decided, as a joke, to "pay me back!" It was fun, but a little stressful, because I only had about 50 hours total flight time.
I didn't know that I had been pre-screened as "very likely to pass."
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