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TENDER TURKEY TRIVIAby Robyn Dawson

The bird is the word in this week’s edition of Tidbits. Take a break from your raking and shopping and baking and cleaning (oh no, the in-laws are coming!) while we “talk tur-key.”

You may have •heard that Ben-jamin Franklin wanted the tur-key to be our national bird, but that’s not entirely true. Rather, he thought that any bird – and then mentioned the turkey as an example – was a better choice than the eagle. In a letter to his daughter, he made reference to the eagle’s “bad moral char-acter. It perches in a tree,” he continued, “thenstealsthepreycaughtbyafishinghawk, because the eagle is too lazy to hunt for itself.”The slang use of the word “turkey” to indi-•cate something as being inferior or a fail-ure dates back to late 1920s show busi-ness. In vaudeville, an act that failed to sell tickets (or one that was lame enough to be booed off stage) was labeled a “tur-key,” presumably due to the bird’s reputa-tion for stupidity.The “Turkey Trot” was all the rage at •dance halls during the very early 1900s. Performed to ragtime music, the dance was done with four sideways hopping steps on one foot, then four hops back on the other foot.The Navajo were likely the first Native•Americans to domesticate the turkey. They worked to keep wild turkeys away from their crops, but were losing that battle. So they turned the tables and fenced the birds in. By feeding and fattening them, they were easier to handle (and yielded more meat). Besides dinner, turkeys also pro-vided decorative ornamental feathers for the Navajo.

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House dinner table.The classic folk melody called “Turkey •in the Straw” first gained popularity viaminstrel shows in the mid-1800s. There is no copyright information available regarding the song, so the author of the tune remains a mystery. However, the song has earned at least one unusual place in pop history: in the United States, it is the tune most used by ice cream trucks to attract customers.Sources reveal that none of the hot oil turkey •fryers available on the market have been approved by Underwriters Laboratories, for the simple reason that the gadgets are just too dangerous. Even when the consumer follows the manufacturer’s instructions to the letter, the units are unsteady and unpredictable. If you plan to deep fry your turkey, do not do it indoors and never leave the fryer unattended.

TENDER TURKEY TRIVIA (continued):

Butterball turkeys have been a holiday •tradition in the United States for the past 50 years. Many home cooks are under the impression that the name means that the bird had been injected with butter, but this is not the case. Butterball is actually a specificbreedofturkey.Theyhaveall-whitefeathers and have extra-broad breasts. A few weeks after sales peak in America, Butterball becomes the best-selling brand in Great Britain at Christmas. (Remember, our U.K. friends don’t celebrate America’s Thanksgiving!)Roasted turkey •drumsticks are staple snacks at Renaissance Festivals across America. The turkey is native to North America, however, and it didn’t make its way across the Atlantic until the mid-16th century. The bottom line is that turkey is not authentic medieval food. Back in those days, kings and knaves and knights feasted on peacock and swan, neither of which is readily available in most American restaurant supply stores.Caruncle, Wattle & Snood… no, this isn’t •the name of a law firm. Those are thepropertermsforthebitsoffleshyskinthatgrow on a turkey’s head. The snood is the flapthatflopsoveritsbeak.Thecarunclesare the colorful growths on the throat, and the wattle is the skin that hangs under its throat. When all three turn bright red, the turkey is either sexually excited or very angry. In either case, you’ll want to stay out of its way!Only male turkeys – known as toms – make •the “gobble, gobble” noise we associate with the birds. Females (hens) make a clicking noise. Like chickens, domestic turkeys are bred for meat, so their weight and shape prevent them from having the ability to flymore than a few feet. Eventhoughtheycan’tfly,however, turkeyby-products are very welltraveled. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin tore into their firstmeal on the surface of theMoon inJuly 1969, those foil packets offered roast turkey with all the trimmings.Unlike chicken and duck feathers, turkey •feathers are too stiff for use as stuffingfor pillows and duvets. Some larger, more colorful turkey feathers may be saved and sold for decorative purposes or craft projects, but most are ground up into compost. The classic “Turkeys Away” episode of •

the 1970s sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati was reportedly based on a real event. WKRP creator Hugh Wilson had a “friend” that worked for an Atlanta radio station. The station decided to toss live turkeys out of a helicopter for a Thanksgiving promotion. Just like the TV episode revealed, none of those involved with the stunt were aware thatdomestic turkeyscouldn’t fly.A localshopping center was bombarded with turkeys hitting the ground “like bags of wet cement.” (“As God is my witness, I thought turkeyscouldfly!”)Big Bird of Sesame Street fame is clad in •a costume made of real turkey feathers – those plucked from the hind end of the birds, to be more specific. A companycalled American Plume and Fancy Feather selects the feathers for this use. The Children’s Television Workshop then inspects the feathers (nine out of 10 of them are rejected), and the chosen white feathers are dyed yellow and attached to BigBird’soutfit.Even the most casual bowler knows that •it’s called a “turkey” when a player bowls three strikes in a row. Back in the early 1900s, bowling alley proprietors offered live turkeys as an award to any player that scored three consecutive strikes. These contests were typically held around Thanksgiving and Christmas, but even during the times when a bird wasn’t presented as a trophy, the term was still used to congratulate a bowler for a job well done.It’s now a Thanksgiving tradition for a live •turkey to be presented by the National Turkey Federation to the U.S. president (whograntsitanofficialpardon).Insteadof being earmarked for Thanksgiving dinner, the turkey is then relegated to a farm or petting zoo to live out its life. Many reports state that Harry Truman was the firstpresident togrant thebirdapardon,but that is not true. John F. Kennedy was the first president to declare that the giftgobbler would not appear on the White

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Weekly FunniesMy new bride wasmakingherfirstThanks-giving dinner. She put the turkey in alu-minum foil. She had to roast it until it was brown. Twenty-four hours later, the foil was still silver. Little Billy said, “I can’t wait to go to Grand-ma’s for Thanksgiving. My cousin’s going to be there, and he has three feet!” His friend Willie said, “Wow! How’d that happen?” “I don’t know. My aunt wrote my parents and said, ‘You won’t recognize little Howie. He’s grown another foot.’” Alma: The pig people are coming this Thanksgiving. Dad: Who are the pig peo-ple? Alma: Aunt Helen and Uncle Bob. Dad: Whatever gave you the idea to call them pig people? Alma: You did. Last year you said that Aunt Helen was a crashing boar and Uncle Bob was a ham. The pro football team hadjustfinishedtheirdaily practice session when a large turkey camestruttingontothefield.Whiletheplay-ers gazed in amazement, the turkey walked up to the head coach and demanded a try-out. Everyone stared in silence as the turkey caught pass after pass and ran right through the defensive line. When the turkey returned to the sidelines, the coach shouted, “You’re terrific!!!Signupfortheseason,andI’llseeto it that you get a huge bonus.”A turkey farmer was always experimenting with breeding to perfect a better turkey. His family was fond of the leg portion for din-ner and there were never enough legs for everyone. After many frustrating attempts, the farmer was relating the results of his ef-forts to his friends at the general store get together.“WellIfinallydidit!Ibredaturkeythat has 6 legs!” They all asked the farmer how it tasted. ”I don’t know,” said the farmer. “I never could catch the darn thing!”

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On • Nov. 21, 1783, Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Francois Laurent make the first untetheredhot-air balloon flight, flying 51/2 miles over Paris in about 25 minutes. On Sept. 19, brothers Joseph and Etienne Montgolfiershad sent a sheep, a rooster and a duck aloft in one of their balloons in apreludetothefirstmannedflight.

On • Nov. 23, 1859, the infamous Western outlaw known as “Billy the Kid” is born on New York City’s East Side. Billy the Kid called himself William H. Bonney, but his original name was probably Henry McCarty. Before he was shot dead at age 21, Billy reputedly killed 27 people in the American West.

On • Nov. 19, 1907, Jack Schaefer, the author of “Shane,” one of the most popular Westerns of all time, is born in Cleveland. Shane was the American version of the valorous European knight, who roams a lawless kingdom righting wrongs and striking down the evil oppressors of the common people.

On • Nov. 17, 1944, actor and director Danny DeVito is born in Neptune, N.J. A former hairdresser, DeVito made his stage debut in 1969.Hespent fiveyearsplayingcab dispatcher Louie De Palma on the TV sitcom “Taxi.”

On • Nov. 20, 1952, struggling singer Frank Sinatra agrees to a screen test for a role in “From Here to Eternity.” Sinatra was paid only $8,000, but the role and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor helped resurrect his career.

On • Nov. 18, 1966, Sandy Koufax, the ace pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, retires from baseball. Koufax is perhaps most famous for ishisrefusalin1965topitchthefirstgame of the World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur. Don Drysdale pitched instead, and gave up seven runsinthefirstthreeinnings.

On • Nov. 22, 1980, actress and writer Mae West dies at the age of 88. In 1926, West produced her own play, “Sex,” about a gigolo. West was arrested and spent 10 days in jail for obscenity. Undaunted, she continued writing racy plays until she finally scoreda Broadway success with her 1928 play, “Diamond Lil.”

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TV: BEYOND THE STARSby Ryan Toepfer

Tidbits takes a sneak peek behind the ce-lebrities (and the sound stage) to reveal some the more technical aspects of the world of television.

That idea behind the Emergency Alert Sys-•tem started in the early days of the Cold War. In 1951, President Truman launched anemergencynotification systemcalledCONELRAD (Control of Electromagnetic Radiation). The fear was that the USSR might be able to hone in on U.S. radio sig-nals and use them as beacons for their atomic missiles. Under CONELRAD, all radio stations would cease broadcasting after an alert from the White House. By 1963, the Soviet Union had switched to ballistic missiles, so the system was re-placed by the Emergency Broadcast Sys-tem (now the Emergency Alert System).

Before overnight hours were sold for in-•fomercials, TV stations signed off at night (usually around one or two o’clock in the morning). Even though FCC regulations only required that stations identify them-selves prior to sign off by call sign, city of license, and channel number, most stations produced custom farewell mes-sagesthat includedpatrioticfilmfootageand songs.

Public Service Announcements vary from •warm fuzzy messages to dire warnings of some sort. The Ad Council, the organiza-tion behind those PSAs, was formed in 1942. A group of Madison Avenue types wanted to contribute to the War effort with-out actually leaving their cushy jobs. The result was a series of ads encouraging Americans to buy war bonds. They were so successful that President Roosevelt encouraged the organization to continue their work even after the War had ended. People that appear in PSA spots, whether celebrities or civilians, get no pay and no residuals for their work.

UHF (ultra-high frequency) signals lie •between 300 MHz and 3.0 GHz in the spectrum. But to pre-cable-era couch po-tatoes, UHF commonly meant “anything above channel 13.” While UHF stations began popping up sporadically across the U.S. in 1949, few viewers were able to watch their programming since a sepa-rate converter box was required. In 1962, President John Kennedy signed the “all channel bill” into law, which made it man-datory for all television sets manufactured in (or imported into) the U.S. after April 30, 1964, to be equipped to receive both VHF and UHF channels.

Originally, channels 14-83 were designat-•ed for UHF. For some reason, very few TV stations were assigned any number above 69. In the mid-1980s, channels 70 through 83 were removed from televi-sion and assigned to the then-new analog cell phone industry. Some savvy (and/or naughty) viewers may recall the days of being able to eavesdrop on their neigh-bor’s cell phone calls by employing the UHF tuner on a television set.

Closed captioning was initially demon-•strated at the First National Conference on Television for the Hearing Impaired in Nashville. This 1971 event offered CC for programming that had been created es-pecially for the conference. ABC and the National Bureau of Standards offered a second demonstration in 1972 at Gallau-det University, this time showing captions embedded on an episode of The Mod Squad. One year earlier, The French Chef onPBSbecamethefirstprogramtouse“open” captions. (That is, the captions were burned right onto the video and were visible on any TV – not just those with built-in caption decoding equipment.)

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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Although your energy level is high, be careful not to commit to too many projects at this time. You’ll do better focusing on just a few tasks rather than spreading yourself too thin.TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your heart might be leading you in one direction, but pay attention to your keen Bovine intellect. I’m cautioning you to think things through before making any commitments.GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Your “seri-ous” Twin has been dominant in your life for quite a while. It’s time now to let that “wilder” half take you out for some good times -- perhaps with someone very spe-cial.CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Career aspects are high for Moon Children who make a good impression. Show people not only what you can already do, but also how you can be more valuable to them in the future.LEO (July 23 to August 22) Things start to brightenfortheLion’simmediatefinancialfuture. But be careful to resist the urge to splurge. You need to tuck something away to help you through another tight period.VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Having to do too many tasks in too short a time could lower your mood to just above the grumbling level. But if you handle things one at a time, you’ll get through it all soon enough.LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Your usually carefully made holiday plans could be subject to change later this month. Use this week to prepare for that possibility by starting a Plan B just in case you need it.SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Be careful about joining a colleague’s plan to solve a workplace problem. Investigate it thoroughly. Otherwise, you could findyourself in a predicament with other asso-ciates.SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to Decem-ber 21) Slow down that high-paced whirl you’ve been on. Spending quiet time alone or with people you care for can be both physically and spiritually restorative.CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Make suggestions, not demands. You’ll be more successful in getting people to fol-low your lead if you exercise quiet patience instead of strong persuasion to get your ideas across.AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) You still need more facts before you can make an informed career choice. One note of caution: Be careful about whom you ask for that information; otherwise, you could be misled.PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Changing situations through the end of the week could lead to some challenging opportunities for those perspicacious Pis-ceans who know how to make them work to their advantage.BORN THIS WEEK: You have a way of being both daring and cautious, traits that could make you a research scientist or maybe even a rocket-ship designer.


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Quips & QuotesNot what we say about our •blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

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Barrel of Knowledge By the fall of 1621 only half of the •pilgrims, who had sailed on the Mayflower,survived.ThefirstThanksgivingcelebration•lasted three days. President George Washington issued •thefirstnationalThanksgivingDayProclamation in the year 1789.


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PICK OF THE WEEK“Wall-E” -- Hands-down one of the best films of 2008. Thisanimated comedy/adventure from Pixar tells the story of Wall-E, a wee trash compactor who has spent centuries on a post-apocalyptic Earth stacking cubes of garbage, collecting trinkets and watching “Hello Dolly.” He discovers a new mission when he meets EVE, an environmental probe, and rises above his programming and in the process discovers love. There are various packagings, but all will include a director’s commentary track, deletedscenes,theshortfilm“Presto”(whichshowed in theaters before the feature) and anewshortfilm,“BURN*E.”Thethree-discSpecial Edition will have all that, plus even more deleted scenes, making-of featurettes, adigitalcopyofthefilmforportabledevices,a documentary on Pixar and other goodies.

ALSO THIS WEEK“Tropic Thunder” -- One of the funniest and mostcontroversialfilmsof theyear---andone of my favorites. “Tropic Thunder” stars Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black asagroupofactorsfilmingan“ApocalypseNow” Vietnam epic who are exiled into the jungle to finish the film in a documentarystyle. Unfortunately, they come across real-life drug lords. But the hapless crew thinks it’sallpartof thefilm.Hilarityensues.TheDVD will be released in theatrical version and an unrated version with Extra Naughty. “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2” -- America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bleidel star in the sequel to the 2005 hit girly pic about a bunch of young girls finding love and ultimately ...themselves. Apparently this can only be achieved with pants. In this installment, thegirls“fightheartacheandfamilytroublewhile seeking adventure during their firstyearof college.”Nothaving seen the film,I can only imagine the “heartache” to be the Freshman 15. Look forward to 2010’s “Sisterhood of the Traveling Slacks with the Elastic Waistband.”

DOCUMENTARY“Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson” -- Filmmaker Alex Gibney (“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and the Oscar-winning “Taxi to the Dark Side”) chronicles the life and tragic death of the Dean of Gonzo Journalism, with special emphasis on Thompson’s coverage of the 1968 and 1972 presidential elections, featuring in-depth interviews with George McGovern, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Steadman, Jan Wenner and Thompson’s friends and family. “Gonzo” is possibly the best (and most even-handed) documentary on Thompson yet made.


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Top 10 Albums1. Kenny Chesney ..........new entry "Lucky Old Sun" (Blue Chair/BNA)2. T.I. ......................................No. 1 "Paper Trail" (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)3. Ray LaMontagne ......new entry "Gossip in the Grain" (RCA)4. Metallica ............................No. 2 "Death Magnetic" (Warner Bros.)5. Jennifer Hudson ..............No. 4 "Jennifer Hudson" (Arista)6. Kid Rock ..........................No. 7 "Rock N Roll Jesus" (Top Dog/Atlantic)7. Keane ..........................new entry "Perfect Symmetry" (Interscope)8. Ne-Yo ................................No. 8 "Year of the Gentleman" (Def Jam)

9. Lucinda Williams ......new entry "Little Honey" (Lost Highway)10. James Taylor ................No. 10 "Covers" (Hear)

Top 10 Hot Country Singles1. Toby Keith ........................No. 2 "She Never Cried in Front of Me"(Show Dog Nashville)2. Kenny Chesney ................No. 1 "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" (Blue Chair)3. Carrie Underwood ..........No. 3 "Just a Dream" (19/Arista)4. Taylor Swift ......................No. 7 "Love Story" (Big Machine)5. Darius Rucker ..................No. 4 "Don't Think I Don't Think About It" (Capitol Nashville)6. Tim McGraw ....................No. 6 "Let It Go" (Curb)7. Zac Brown Band ........new entry "Chicken Fried" (Live Nation)8. Sugarland ..........................No. 9 "Already Gone" (Mercury)9. Montgomery Gentry ......No. 10 "Roll With Me" (Columbia)10. Brad Paisley ....................No. 8 "Waitin' On a Woman" (Arista Nashville)

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FILLMOREMillard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, and in his case, the number was truly unlucky. There’s a reason that you never hear very much about Fillmore’s presidency: he was disliked in a major way by most of the people he worked with, including members of Congress, members of his Cabinet, and even members of his own Party. So why was he elected? He wasn’t… but we’ll get to that.

Millard Fillmore was born in a log cabin •near upstate New York’s Finger Lakes on January 7, 1800. (He was the last president born in the 18th century, since the 19th century didn’t begin until 1801.) Instead of attending school, Millard worked on his father’s farm. He apprenticed with a tailor, but disliked the job. At 18, he decided to catch up on the education that he’d missed. His teacher, Abigail Powers, was only two years his elder. The two got along famously, and Fillmore proved a fast learner in more ways than one. (Powers later became Mrs. Millard Fillmore.) Despite his late start, in 1819, Millard •madethestudyof lawhischosenfield.Only four years later, he was admitted to the bar and opened a private practice in East Aurora, NY. At this point in his life, Fillmore was actually a well-liked individual. He was considered attractive and dressed sharply. He also proved his skills as an attorney, and moved his practice to Buffalo.With the support of colleagues, Millard •Fillmore won a seat in the state legislature in 1828. After four years, he stepped up to the national ranks by becoming a U.S. representative. Fillmore joined the then-new Whig Party, which opposed the Democrats in the mid-1800s. (The Whigs were eventually absorbed into the Republican Party).In Congress, Fillmore joined Henry Clay •in pushing for a solution to the growing divide between the North and South. Millard lost the New York gubernatorial race in 1844, but then took a job as state comptroller, placing his hands firmlyon New York’s “purse strings.” Many expected Henry Clay to win the Whig presidential nomination in 1848, but it went to a man who opposed “backing down” to the South: Zachary Taylor. To maintain peace in party ranks, Clay’s friend Fillmore became Taylor’s running mate.The Whigs won the presidency, and Taylor •tookofficein1849.WhileheentertainedClay’s idea of making slavery legal in selected new U.S. states, he ultimately rejected the idea, and most of Washington supported him. But less than a year and a half into his term, Taylor passed away, and Millard Fillmore became president. Unlike Taylor, Fillmore felt that he could avoid Civil War and make everyone happy by strengthening slavery laws in existing states while disallowing the practice in any new states.

The Compromise of 1850 served to •alienate, rather than satisfy, all involved. Fillmore’s entire cabinet resigned in protest. Many Whigs were angry with him for betraying the work that Taylor had performed in office. TheDemocrats didn’t like Millard’s sudden shift in theory, since it caused divisions in their own party as well as within the Whigs. Northerners were upset that the Compromise included increased slave fugitive measures. Southerners were miffed that California would be admitted as a free state.Needless to say, Millard Fillmore was •notreelectedtoasecondterminoffice.An illadvised campaign for the “Know Nothing” Party in 1856 did, well, nothing. Fillmore passed away in 1874.

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What key has legs and can’t open •doors? A Turkey.

What did the mother turkey say to •her disobedient children? If your father could see you now, he’d turn over in his gravy!

IfAprilshowersbringMayflowers,•what do May flowersbring?Pilgrims!

Which side •of the turkey has the most feathers? The outside

If the Pilgrims •were alive today, what would they be most famous for? Their age.

Why can’t you take a turkey to •church? Because they use such fowl language.

What’s the best dance to do on •Thanksgiving? The turkey trot.

Can a turkey jump higher than •the Empire State Building? Yes - a building can’t jump at all.

What do you get when you cross a •turkey with an octopus? Enough drumsticks for Thanksgiving.

What kind of music did the Pilgrims •like? Plymouth Rock.

Why did the police arrest the •turkey? They suspected it of fowl play.

Why did they let the turkey join •the band? Because he had the drumsticks.

How can you send a turkey through •thepostoffice?Birdclassmail.

What’s the key to a great •Thanksgiving dinner? The turkey

What did the turkey say before it •was roasted? Boy! I’m stuffed!

Wheredidthefirstcorncome•from? The stalk brought it.

Why did the Indian chief wear •so many feathers? To keep his wigwam.

What happened to the Pilgrim who •was shot at by an Indian? He had an arrow escape.

HowdidtheMayflowershowthat•it liked America? It hugged the shore.

What’s a turkey’s favorite song? •I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas.

Why do a pilgrims’ pants always fall •down? Because they wear their belt buckle on their hat.

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