A Thanksgiving Day Classic:
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First and foremost, depending on when you are reading this, TAKE THE TURKEY OUT OF THE FREEZER.
But seriously, Thanksgiving is, to me, one of the more interesting holidays. It is a "feast." You knew that already, but what you may not have known is that "feasting" is a human activity found world…
Chemistry songs.
Well, there is the classic:
Lehrer's Song of the Elements
but it turns out there is a pageful of them
actually, "Sound of Stirring" is kinda catchy.
"Hello test tube my old friend,
I've come to work with you again
Upon a straight alkane I was keeping
I tried to turn it into a…
A classic:
A classic:
If they could fly, do you think they'd stay put and let themselves be decapitated?
*WILD* turkeys can fly...sort of...more like a controlled plummet.
On the other hand, DOMESTIC turkeys...
Actually, Wild Turkeys can fly pretty well, though they don't usually go far. I recently saw a flock of 6 or so hens rise up from the brush on one side of a highway, fly to the other side and end up in 45 foot tall trees; they went int a pretty straight line going up the whole way.
Man alive that takes me back. Of course, I was 3 when the show first aired and 7 when it went off the air so it's all a little hazy but I still remember parts of it really well.
My brother and I laughed ourselves silly when we saw that way back then. My first reaction now is, "How did they tow a banner behind a helicopter without it getting tangled in the blades?". Still funny though.
We have bush turkeys in Oz that can fly quite well.
I haven't ever seen them fly any great distance though.
Daniel: Good point!
js? I suppose it depends on how many offspring they have in their pouch at the moment.