Thankful That Some Turkeys Don't Fly

Hopefully you are on your way to a friend or family's home to enjoy Thanksgiving in your unique way. Perhaps you will get up early and watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade while you put the turkey in the oven and prepare for hours of endless football.

With holidays come the threat of the envitable akward social situation with some distant relative, in-law or that zanny friend who repeats the same stories every year. Here are a few ideas on breaking the tension.

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You can also make conversation with some Fun Thanksgiving Facts:

• Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the Turkey the National Bird of the United States.
• President Jefferson scoffed at the idea of a national day of thanks.
• Our 16th President, decided we should celebrate Thanksgiving sometime in November.
• Thanksgiving was recognized as a National Holiday during World War II.
• Americans consumed 46 million pounds of turkey in 2007
• Over 90% of Americans choose turkey as the main dish for Thanksgiving.
• The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was originally called the Macy's Christmas Parade to mark the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.
• To test the quality of a fresh cranberry, you should bounce it. Healthy. ripe cranberries will bounce.
• Only the male (tom) turkey gobbles as a mating call.

And finally...

• Domesticated turkeys do not in fact fly, as proven over and over again in my favorite Thanksgiving day television episode of all time when WKRP in Cincinnati dropped turkeys from a helicopter as part of the Famous Turkey Drop.

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Buzztime.

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