"Even turkeys can fly" (1992)

[Mullins, Bill]

Wilson -- This episode was the sum total of my knowledge of the flight
status of turkeys, wild or otherwise, until two years ago when I was hiking
by myself a couple miles back into the woods in the Smokey Mountains Natl
Park.  I heard a gobble from one overhead, and it scared the living crap out
of me.  It was a good thirty feet up.  Since then I've seen a couple more up
in trees, and I presume it's not because they are skilled in the Alpine
arts.

Bill

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> > Arthur Carlson, station manager of WKRP radio in Cincinnati, OH:
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> > "As God is my witness . . . I thought turkeys could fly."
> 30 Oct 78
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> FWIW, real, i.e. wild turkeys can and do fly. It's only the
> synthetic, Butterball-type of turkey that can't fly.
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> -Wilson Gray
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