Happy Thanksgiving 2025!

[RickS]

Happy Thanksgiving to our US members and their families!

Ours is off to a rough start as the latest polar vortex is hitting part of the area with lake effect snow. Last night we had high winds and lost power for about 6 hours. After being re-promised twice, power was back on at about 3 AM. Fortunately, since the temp was around 50F earlier in the day, the house stayed warm through sleeping hours. We had already cancelled plans to travel due to the weather and so are having a scaled back celebration at home.

I have plenty to be thankful for this year including our first grandchild that arrived a week ago. He was 2 weeks early and so is also spending his holiday at home. My son and his wife are first timers and are adjusting to the demands of becoming new parents. Along with grandparenting, I picked up some audio consulting work for a local auction house. As part of a recent auction, I bid on some mint Thiel CS3.6 towers. I was not expecting to win them, but between the top bidders, one did not pay, and the other withdrew his bid. So got a really good deal and am determining whether I will keep them or not. More on this in another post. My younger son and his wife just returned from a 3-week vacation and left their cat with us, so have been busy cat sitting and winterizing. So, other than forum duties, not much time for speaker pursuits.

Wishing you all a happy and safe holiday.

Kind regards,

Rick

 

[MoreWatts]

Time for the classic:

From Wikipedia:

"The plot of 'Turkeys Away' is based on a true story. WKRP in Cincinnati creator Hugh Wilson — who adapted Carlson's character from Jerry Blum, a general manager of radio station WQXI in Atlanta from 1960 to 1989 — recounted that the episode was inspired by a similar live turkey giveaway promotion by Blum, who tossed turkeys out of a pick-up truck at a Dallas shopping center parking lot.

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Blum said in 1996 that following the disastrous promotion, he quipped, 'I didn’t know turkeys couldn't fly,' almost word-for-word what Carlson says at the end of the episode.

'The public went nuts fighting over the turkeys and it was a mess,' Blum said. 'That was about the whole story... To my knowledge, the turkey drop was never repeated.'

Other aerial turkey drops have also been documented in Yellville, Arkansas, where the local Chamber of Commerce has over the years sponsored the Turkey Trot Festival and featured turkeys being dropped from a low-flying airplane.

'Turkeys Away' has been praised by fans and critics and is widely considered to be the most famous episode of the series (frequently replayed during the Thanksgiving season). The episode was included in TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time."

BTW, the song Dr. Johnny Fever starts up is CCR's 'It Came Out Of The Sky,' which adds another level to the humor. The song, however, is changed on streaming platforms, due to the infamous music copyright issues associated with this series.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

 

[babadono]

yes turkeys fly about as well as pigs..
Happy Thanksgiving to all and your families.

 

[Fahzz]

Happy Thanksgiving Rick and everybody else. Congrats on the grandchild (and the speakers!)

IIRC turkeys hit the ground like wet cement. LOL

 

[GD Fan]

Despite their size, (live) turkeys are said to actually fly pretty well. For short distances. We had a wild turkey spotted in Central Park recently. Apparently it flew over from somewhere in Queens.

 

[MoreWatts]

Despite their size, (live) turkeys are said to actually fly pretty well. For short distances. We had a wild turkey spotted in Central Park recently. Apparently it flew over from somewhere in Queens.

Wild turkeys fly pretty well. Farm-raised turkeys for consumption are too heavy to fly given their wing/breast musculature and anatomy. Plus, Wild Turkey drinks pretty well. Or at least many people think such.

 

[Robin L]

 

[DWPress]

Happy Thanksgiving to all. Our travel plans are on hold as well with up to 18" expected and 10" on the ground already. Even though I got snow tires on the last of the cars yesterday, rear PTO snowblower and chains on the tractor I'm still not feeling ready to face another winter like we had last year.

A couple of our kids made it here before the storm so still festive but we'll have chicken tonight instead of the turkey at my mom's.

 

[DWPress]

Oh - and wild turkeys do fly quite well and are pretty smart. They're everywhere around here, usually in flocks and often just off the side of the road casually taking their time moving out of the way yet I never see turkey roadkill. We've a couple turkey farms in the area as well and those birds are significantly different and dumber than their cousins.

 

[xanalog]

Happy Thanksgiving to all; there is much to give thanks for/to.

We are on our traditional 42nd annual feast of Mac-n-Cheese.
The reasons may have been a bunch of myths but were great enough excuses to start a new tradition that includes a big hunk of bone-in ham... instead of dumbo!

Yuk to turkeys... They lack much taste, are dumber than a box of rocks, clumsy flyers, not waterproof, and don't know when to stop eating.

 

[JSmith]

Don't eat too much turkey y'all.

JSmith

 

[MoreWatts]

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[Chrispy]

Such a strange holiday....celebrating something somewhat mythical (i.e. between original illegal immigrants and native americans) that wasn't sustained.

 

[xanalog]

Such a strange holiday....celebrating something somewhat mythical (i.e. between original illegal immigrants and native americans) that wasn't sustained.

Best not to over-analyze holidays and celebrate each, even if they are strange... like party for party's sake!

A recent op-ed referred to Halloween as being the most... errrrr... unassuming[?]... of all holidays; since; you can dress silly to celebrate, open your front door to strangers, and give candy to young kids.... w/o the politics of it all! No race, color, religion (etc.) need be involved.
Kinda cool perspective... imo.

 

[Keith_W]

Yuk to turkeys... They lack much taste, are dumber than a box of rocks, clumsy flyers, not waterproof, and don't know when to stop eating.

The problem with turkeys is that most of the time, they are overcooked. The white meat and dark meat have different target temperatures, which is difficult to achieve if you try to cook it whole. If you cook to a white meat target (62C/144F) the dark meat is still raw. If you cook to a dark meat target (68C/154F) the breast meat becomes unappetizingly dry. In addition, the bird is big, and it's very difficult to brine because it takes up so much space in the refrigerator.

I have long given up on cooking a whole turkey. Instead, I separate the turkey into legs and crown and cook it differently.

I roast the breast on the crown. It remains juicy, so there is no need for a sauce. But I serve it with a sauce anyway.

And the legs are deboned, rolled into a roulade, sous-vided to the target temperature, then fried to brown the skin.

These days I have stopped serving turkey at Christmas. It's too rich for hot Australian weather. We have something called "Christmas in July" where it is actually cold enough to serve Northern Hemisphere Christmas food, so if I happen to throw one of those parties, i'll serve turkey. But otherwise, for actual Christmas, I have moved towards lighter and more summery food.

 

[Chrispy]

Best not to over-analyze holidays and celebrate each, even if they are strange... like party for party's sake!

A recent op-ed referred to Halloween as being the most... errrrr... unassuming[?]... of all holidays; since; you can dress silly to celebrate, open your front door to strangers, and give candy to young kids.... w/o the politics of it all! No race, color, religion (etc.) need be involved.
Kinda cool perspective... imo.

So like Cinco de Mayo here in the US as a result of advertisements of alcoholic beverages? I much favor Halloween over the bulk of them.

 

[ryanosaur]

Turkeys fly just fine. Seen it.
Turkeys landing is another issue.

If a bowling ball could ‘splat.’



What was Ben Franklin thinking?

 

[Doodski]

Such a strange holiday....celebrating something somewhat mythical (i.e. between original illegal immigrants and native americans) that wasn't sustained.

Illegal? Do explain please. What exact illegal laws? What is next, are you going to refer to a tribal nomad people with no metallurgy abilities of any description and therefore being stone age as a nation? They never even had a wheel. Where does the spin begin and where does the spin end?

 

[Chrispy]

Illegal? Do explain please. What exact illegal laws? What is next, are you going to refer to a tribal nomad people with no metallurgy abilities of any description and therefore being stone age as a nation? Where does the spin begin and where does the spin end?

Illegal in the sense that North America was invaded by europeans based on european rules and odd religious interpretations. Whether one is more technologically advanced or not is more a matter of luck/circumstance.....

 

[Doodski]

Illegal in the sense that North America was invaded by europeans based on european rules and odd religious interpretations. Whether one is more technologically advanced or not is more a matter of luck/circumstance.....

O' contraire it all matters very much to everybody and always did matter to everybody because it's super important. Is it that you can't see it or you won't see it?