"Even turkeys can fly" (1992)

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Sep 17 18:52:47 UTC 2004


>On Sep 17, 2004, at 2:31 PM, Mullins, Bill wrote:
>
>>---------------------- Information from the mail header
>>-----------------------
>>Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>Poster:       "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
>>Subject:      Re: "Even turkeys can fly" (1992)
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>--------
>>
>>Arthur Carlson, station manager of WKRP radio in Cincinnati, OH:
>>
>>"As God is my witness . . . I thought turkeys could fly."   30 Oct 78
>>
>
>FWIW, real, i.e. wild turkeys can and do fly. It's only the synthetic,
>Butterball-type of turkey that can't fly.
>
along with turduckens

larry



More information about the Ads-l mailing list