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#190944 - 26/11/2003 13:20 Aaah! Turkey Alert!
foxtrot_xray
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Registered: 03/03/2002
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Loc: Atlanta, Georgia
I love the Atlanta Traffic System... They have cameras everywhere, radar stations everywhere, and huge, huge CMS (Changeable Message Signs) over the interstates that tell you road conditions up ahead..

Today, on my way to work:

Man, I hate it when people start dropping turkeys on the roads, now..

Me.


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#190945 - 26/11/2003 13:59 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: foxtrot_xray]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31597
Loc: Seattle, WA
<Les Nessman>"They're hitting the concrete like sacks of wet cement... Oh the humanity..."</Les Nessman>
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#190946 - 26/11/2003 15:13 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: tfabris]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
<Les Nessman>"It was like the turkeys mounted a counterattack! It was almost as if they were ...organized!!"</Les Nessman>
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#190947 - 26/11/2003 15:17 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: pgrzelak]
tfabris
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<Mrs. Tweedy>"And they are not organized!"</Mrs. Tweedy>
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#190948 - 26/11/2003 16:31 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: tfabris]
davec
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Registered: 18/08/2000
Posts: 992
Loc: Georgetown, TX USA
ROFL! They need to show that episode on TVLand this weekend. I wish I could remember some of the lines Gordon Jump (Mr. Carlson) had in that episode... I know one was something like, "How were we supposed to know turkeys can't fly?" A classic, no doubt.
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#190949 - 26/11/2003 16:44 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: foxtrot_xray]
peter
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Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
<withnail>Accident black spot? These aren't accidents! They're throwing themselves into the road! Gladly! Throwing themselves into the road to escape all this hideousness!</withnail>

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#190950 - 26/11/2003 16:45 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: davec]
pgrzelak
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Loc: New Jersey, USA
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#190951 - 26/11/2003 16:46 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: davec]
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#190952 - 26/11/2003 17:19 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: pgrzelak]
foxtrot_xray
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Registered: 03/03/2002
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Loc: Atlanta, Georgia
ROFL!!

Thanks guys. Geez, I wish I could hack into our database and throw those quotes out there..

Me.
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#190953 - 26/11/2003 20:31 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: davec]
tanstaafl.
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Registered: 08/07/1999
Posts: 5549
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I know one was something like, "How were we supposed to know turkeys can't fly?" A classic, no doubt.


"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

That episode of WKRP has been called the best single sitcom episode ever aired. I have to concur.

tanstaafl.
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#190954 - 27/11/2003 12:39 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: tanstaafl.]
foxtrot_xray
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What was the name of the episode? I can't remember for the life of me.. and thousands of small birds.

Me.
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#190955 - 27/11/2003 14:48 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: foxtrot_xray]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Turkeys Away
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#190956 - 27/11/2003 14:49 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: foxtrot_xray]
davec
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Registered: 18/08/2000
Posts: 992
Loc: Georgetown, TX USA
What was the name of the episode?

According to epguides.com:
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"Turkeys Away"
gs: Michael Fairman [ Shoe Store Owner ]
Feeling left out because he doesn't have anything to do, Mr. Carlson suddenly decides to take full charge of every aspect of the station. He then proceeds to come up with a special, top-secret Thanksgiving day promotion involving twenty live turkeys.

b: 30 Oct 78 pc: 008 w: Bill Dial d: Michael Zinberg

NOTE: This is the series' most famous episode
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#190957 - 27/11/2003 20:25 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: davec]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
Since it was brought up, and since Fark recently posted it, Turkeys Away!
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#190958 - 28/11/2003 19:50 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: foxtrot_xray]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14493
Loc: Canada
Speaking of which.. we had to stop the car and wait a few minutes for the local (newly arrived) wild turkeys to saunter off the highway tonight. One male and a harem of six or seven ladies.

-ml

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#190959 - 28/11/2003 19:55 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: mlord]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Wild turkeys were reintroduced back to NJ a number of years ago. Now, you can see them in the most unusual places. Including the campus of the building I work in. It is always strange looking out of the glass and seeing wild turkeys looking back in at you!
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#190960 - 28/11/2003 20:04 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: pgrzelak]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14493
Loc: Canada
Speaking of which (sort of..), is your address still the same?

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#190961 - 29/11/2003 08:55 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: mlord]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Yes, it is. Which is kind of why it is so unusual to see live turkeys - while not "the big city", it is certainly industrial park suburbia...
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#190962 - 29/11/2003 10:46 Re: Aaah! Turkey Alert! [Re: davec]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
I'm sure they used to show this on Sky One years ago. But I thought it had the bloke from Third Rock in it. But according to that episode guide it ran from 1978 to 82, now that can't be right.

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Aha, it turns out the series I watched was New WKRP in Cincinnati, and the bloke I was thinking of is French Stewart. Thankyou IMDB!


Edited by marria01 (29/11/2003 10:49)
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