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Started by Solitary, November 30, 2013, 10:11:27 AM

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Solitary

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stromboli

I used to handle those birds as a teenager. A full grown Tom can weigh upwards of 30 pounds, has claws, a vicious beak, broad powerful wings and a seriously bad attitude. They are every bit as nasty as a goose, I'd say more so. I used to have to reach under and grab one by the legs, lift it up and shove it into a 2 compartment box upside down. After the second bird, you latch the bottom and then flip the box over. You then hoist the struggling, shaking, often flimsy- filled box-which weighs all told about 75 pounds- into the back of a truck. Try that for a couple hours. I would go home at the end of the day bloody, battered, aching in every muscle, exhausted and seriously hatin' them birds. I eat them now out of payback as much as any other reason.

mykcob4

When I was very young, before my family moved to Hawaii, I worked on my grandmothers farm/ranch. She had a minagerie of animals. Black Angus cattle and one very tame bull; An angry sow pig and her wildass litter; a milking goat; chickens and bandy roosters (nutty birds); a  rainbowtrout pond, eating hares (large rabbits); caged quail & dove; some ducks and geese(meeeeeean!); and white turkeys. The turkeys were actually very funny, stupid, but funny. During storms they would trample each other until you seperated them and took them into a shack/coop. they could find a snake no matter where it was hiding, and they would attack it until it or they were dead. Now wild turkys are very smart and quite different from domestic breeds. If you ever tried to hunt them you'd know what I mean.
Of all the animals that I miss it would easily be the turkeys. They would follow you everywhere you went. One of the Toms addopted both a kitten and a dog(bassethound) once. The three were inseperable. That Tom guarded his friends fiercely and you could not get between he and they. A coyote got the Tom one night and it was hell to pay listening to the dog and cats cries of lament.
Well thats my turkey story. Oh there was the one time my unit stopped over in Turkey but that was quite different.


AllPurposeAtheist

I vote we adopt a new name for Turkiye shoe.. How does Drunkenshoeland sound?
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PickelledEggs

Quote from: drunkenshoe on March 21, 2014, 12:37:24 PM
From the link posted above.

Just saw this thread. This is completely made up. Hindi is not short for India in Turkish, we don't have nicknames for countries. Hindistan is India in Turkish and Hindu is Indian. Hindi is the bird turkey. They are NOT the same word.

This is almost as complicated as the English language....

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PickelledEggs

Quote from: drunkenshoe on March 30, 2014, 08:13:10 PM
There is nothing complicated there. Or anything about the language in question.
:lol: I was referring to how so many words are said similarly and spelled similarly.

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AllPurposeAtheist

Quote from: drunkenshoe on March 30, 2014, 08:13:10 PM
There is nothing complicated there. Or anything about the language in question.   

betcha wec'd c'nfuz yoo reel quicklike ifn wez wantn to. :lol:
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AllPurposeAtheist

Translation: I bet you we could confuse you real quick if we wanted to.
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AllPurposeAtheist

Quote from: drunkenshoe on March 30, 2014, 08:46:06 PM
Naah, I would find a way to decode something like that if I tried. At least I could ask someone. I, on the other hand, can write and you wouldn't get anything.
what? are you trying to insinuate I might not understand colloquial Turkish? :surprised:
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AllPurposeAtheist

I grew up around a bunch of people who had zero grasp for actual grammar.  You should have heard my mother's opinion of such cretins.
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