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What would Thanksgiving be without this blast from the past? (Original Post) Ganja Ninja Nov 2012 OP
Now THAT should be a yearly "Tradition!" FailureToCommunicate Nov 2012 #1
Aside from her cluelessness, how long does it take to kill those poor turkeys in the machine?! meadowlark5 Nov 2012 #2
It's not a machine, sorry this is kind of gross so ignore if you want sharp_stick Nov 2012 #3
"Smart & sexy".... WhoIsNumberNone Nov 2012 #4
Is it just my imagination or does it PotatoChip Nov 2012 #5
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!" TahitiNut Nov 2012 #6
that was hysterical eaglesfanintn Nov 2012 #7
lol Go Vols Nov 2012 #8
Thank you! TahitiNut Nov 2012 #9

meadowlark5

(2,795 posts)
2. Aside from her cluelessness, how long does it take to kill those poor turkeys in the machine?!
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 10:52 AM
Nov 2012

It's one thing that this is all taking place right behind her and she's oblivious or willfully oblivious to it, but that turkey killing machine looks pretty sadistic and not humane at all! That poor turkey is trying to get it's neck out of the hopper while weird guy holds it's struggling body for minutes. I thought the whole purpose was to quickly kill the bird. What the hell is happening in that machine?

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
3. It's not a machine, sorry this is kind of gross so ignore if you want
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 11:02 AM
Nov 2012

it's just a funnel to hold the turkey in place while it bleeds out. I don't know how that place does it but a lot of turkey farms use something akin to electric pruning shears.

You drop the bird head first into the funnel and then as soon as the head pops out of the bottom you cut it off with the shears. The turkey struggling is the proverbial "chicken with it's head cut off".

PotatoChip

(3,186 posts)
5. Is it just my imagination or does it
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 01:54 PM
Nov 2012

seem as if the turkey slayer is getting a kick out of SP's cluelessness? Notice how he even appears to be rattling the machine in the background on the 2nd turkey? Yet she doesn't notice? Wtf?

I liked KO's adding the WKRP part in, as the whole clip felt a bit like a 70's sitcom; only cheesier than his choice... I'm thinking something on the line of Carol Burnett w/a laugh-track. Harvey Korman would be the guy in the background, except the turkey would get stuck or something.

It'd obviously be a fake turkey though.

TahitiNut

(71,611 posts)
6. "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 02:12 PM
Nov 2012

I remember seeing that WKRP episode the first time it was aired, and damned near fell over laughing. Fact *IS* stranger than fiction and only a total ditz like Sarah could demonstrate such abysmal cluelessness that she out-WKRP'd WKRP.


eaglesfanintn

(82 posts)
7. that was hysterical
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 02:40 PM
Nov 2012

Les Nessman reporting from the shopping center parking lot...one of the classic tv moment.s

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