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They can, but they don't gain altitude so good. I had one fly across the road at top-of-windshield level. Since I figured it would just clear or just glance off, I did nothing to avoid it.

Unfortunately, I had a roof rack on. Fortunately, I was able to find replacement parts for the rack on eBay.

The turkey didn't appear to be harmed. After tumbling ass over teakettle to the ground, it walked into the field on the side of the road looking for all the world like a cat that wanted you to forget you'd just seen it do something beneath its dignity.

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Auracle

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The absolute favorite activity of my dog is to chase groups of turkeys that are in our yard. She’s only 15 pounds (and 15 years old now) and has never caught one, but I think being in the middle of a group of 20 turkeys all desperately trying to fly up to trees quickly is quite the experience for her.

She’s never caught one, even the younger ones. It seems like they can actually fly easier than the adults.

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ghaff

1 hour ago

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Turkeys are one of the animals in that general category that, knowing what we know now, you look at them and you're like "How could smart scientists not look at them and not see that they are obviously a form of dinosaur?"

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PyWoody

3 hours ago

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg

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justbees

4 hours ago

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like wet sacks of cement...

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asah

4 hours ago

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I always wondered if there was a relationship between this and the Oregon exploding whale in 1970 ? https://www.google.com/search?q=whale+explosion+oregon

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justbees

29 minutes ago

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Evidently it's from a true story. Luckily not actually thrown from a helicopter!

https://classictvhistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/turkeys-aw...

CLARKE BROWN: The turkey drop was actually a real incident. ... Although the turkeys were thrown off the back of a truck, as opposed to how it was depicted on the [show].

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wiremine

1 hour ago

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Oh thank you, I came here to make that joke. Great show.

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criddell

1 hour ago

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It's a bummer that the show will never play with original music on some streaming service due to (as I understand it) music licensing problems.

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pwg

6 minutes ago

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The solution there is to not bother with "streaming services" and just download the readily available alternative captures, which include the original music.

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ghaff

1 hour ago

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Northern Exposure had similar problems but, as I understand it, at least some was resolved for the (somewhat relatively) recent DVD box set release.

It just wasn't an issue that was seriously considered by a lot of studios(?) at the time and it's not like back catalog TV shows are usually these big money-makers that warrant a lot of time and cost to get in order.

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justbees

28 minutes ago

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There's a DVD box set that has almost all of the original music!

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noefingway

1 hour ago

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Will Les Nessman be in his "office"?

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Loughla

37 minutes ago

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We had a shared office at one point with three of us with desks. One guy was absolutely ANAL about nobody touching his stuff or approaching him unannounced.

So we taped off the area around his desk and started calling him Les. He was like 22 and had no idea what that was about, but he liked the nickname. It's decades later and he still goes by Les. Love it.

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JKCalhoun

2 hours ago

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That's funny, especially since the callsign was part of the humor of the show.

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comrade1234

4 hours ago

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I think I'm getting this show mixed up with another. I thought that Phil Hartman was in it but looking at the wiki page he's not listed... ah, Phil Hartman was in News Radio. WKRP was almost 20 years earlier. Everyone that watched it is probably dead or in a nursing home.

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bityard

2 hours ago

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The last episode of WKRP was 44 years ago. What age do you believe people die or go into a nursing home?

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PaulHoule

2 hours ago

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Reruns were on for a long time after that. I remember the show fondly even though I was 8 when it ended.

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toast0

54 minutes ago

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There was also two seasons of 'the new wkrp' from ten years after the old one. I don't follow the show (either version), so I don't know if the new seasons are any good; or the old ones really, but there'a a following, obviously.

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quantummagic

3 hours ago

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Thanks for the chuckle. But a lot of us are hanging on for dear life, and still living independently.

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alsobrsp

3 hours ago

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I watched it. I am not dead, in a nursing home, nor retired.

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skeeter2020

3 hours ago

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I watched and (apprently!) still know the entire theme song, which is wild because they stopped making new episodes when I was a toddler. Must have been in reruns; I wonder if it was that after school / pre-dinner time slice when we watched Happy Days and 321 Contact?

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bookofjoe

3 hours ago

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Single-question aptitude test: choose one

a. dead

b. in a nursing home

c. retired

d. one of the above

e. none of the above

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