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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Gobble X 3

Happy Thanksgiving, all!

Google has a cool interactive turkey today. Click any of the feathers, hair to change them, or click the big ol' turkey wing to randomize them all at once. Here are a few samples:






Did you know we call turkey "turkey" because the English thought the birds were coming from Turkey, but in Turkey, turkeys are called "hindi" because the Turks thought turkeys came from India? (Turkey birds come from North America.)




Loudon Wainwright III - Suddenly It's Christmas/Thanksgiving
Hastily scribbled by captnkurt at 11/24/2011 12:44:00 PM
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