[Deptheads] - As God is my witness..."

[Tim]

In these tough economic times it I find it helps to remember better 
times... and often that it can always be worse.  Below is one of my 
favorite "Thanksgiving" memories


"It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way. It's flying something 
behind it, I can't quite make it out, it's a large banner and it says, 
uh - Happy... Thaaaaanksss... giving! ... From ... W ... K ... R... P!!"

"No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... "

"I can't tell just yet what they are, but... "

"Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!!"

"Johnny, can you get this?"

"Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes!"

"One just went through the windshield of a parked car!"

"Oh, the humanity!"

"The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!"

"Not since the Hindenburg tragedy has there been anything like this!"

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!"
-- Arthur Carlson, WKRP in Cincinnati

Oddly enough, this famous WKRP episode was loosely based on a real 
event! Back in 1946 (some sources say 1945), Yellville, Arkansas 
inaugurated the "Turkey Trot Festival" which included a wild turkey 
calling contest, a turkey target shoot, a Miss Drumsticks Pageant and oh 
yeah: a live turkey release from the roof of the courthouse.

After a few years, someone thought it might be fun to actually toss the 
poor gobblers out of a low-flying airplane for the event. This repeated 
for a number of years until 1989 when a national animal-rights protest 
cast the event in a bad light and the "National Enquirer" splashed a 
photo of the event across the nation forcing promoters to abandon the 
turkey drop.

Sometimes, real life is funnier - or plain stranger - than anything you 
can make up.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families

Tim
-- 

/“What manner of man are you that can summon up fire without flint or 
tinder?”/

/“I... am an enchanter.”/

/“By what name are you known?”/

/“There are some who call me... 'Tim'...”/

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