• Flying SquidOP
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      4421 days ago

      People joke about how Benjamin Franklin wanted it to be the turkey.

      He wasn’t talking about the domesticated bird we normally eat at Thanksgiving.

      He was talking about one of these dinosaurs:

      And god help you if you get between a tom and one of his mates. Here’s a wild turkey spur:

      • @[email protected]
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        721 days ago

        Wild turkeys are so different than regular ones.

        We should call them something different.

        Maybe we could call them Türkies so we know the difference.

      • FuglyDuck
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        20 days ago

        Do be fair.

        It’s hard to take them seriously when you’re watching them jump for crab apples they can’t quite reach.

        Not that turkeys aren’t all around a better bird than the carrion scavenger.