Gary C
Senior Member.
This is why you should not follow investing advice from Big Foot.
"Annual interest rate 7 percent, annual inflation rate 6.75 percent, result happiness. Annual interest rate 7 per cent, annual inflation rate 7.25 percent, result misery." – Mr Micawber (probably)
JMartJr
Senior Member.
Good practice for spotting that ol' AI trickiness...
(GIF ripped from Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KJrZLA67aAY)
(GIF ripped from Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KJrZLA67aAY)
John J.
Senior Member.
After writing that mini-rant, it occurred to me that if Isaac Asimov were around today he'd probably have written
"I, Chatbot".
FatPhil
Senior Member.
With no visible means of propulsion!
FatPhil
Senior Member.
drones at least have a visible means of propulsion, unlike those things - curiouser and curiouser...
OMG, just wondered what happens to the passengers when the jet they're riding in morphs into an alien drone? @Trailblazer 
NoParty
Senior Member.
Any orc reference reminds me of the classic John Rogers line:
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life:
The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession
with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted,
socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
The other, of course, involves orcs."
Ann K
Senior Member.
"As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
(They can, of course, but not very well and not very far. Think of it more as a jump with much thrashing of wings. I used to walk over to the DeWine's backyard menagerie in Yellow Springs (long before young Mike became Governor) and watch them and their fellow feathered friends.)
Gary C
Senior Member.
I was one of our regular favorite shows and when it got to that segment my wife and I were in tears.
Hevach
Senior Member.
Wild turkeys can fly just fine. Bounced a couple off my windshield the other day and they didn't even fall to the ground.
Domestic turkeys, much like chickens, are a distorted and overfed mockery of the avian form conjured into being by mammal fingers inflicting one final evolutionary insult on the dinosaur.
Domestic turkeys, much like chickens, are a distorted and overfed mockery of the avian form conjured into being by mammal fingers inflicting one final evolutionary insult on the dinosaur.
Ann K
Senior Member.
My husband and I met when we were both students at U. Cincinnati, so of course we tuned in when the show was new ...and never quit.
John J.
Senior Member.
JMartJr
Senior Member.
WKRP in Cincinnati. A comedy about the folks working at the WKRP radio station. In a Thanksgiving episode they had the bright idea of releasing live turkeys from a helicopter over the city as a promotional thing. It went... poorly.
Gary C
Senior Member.
Season 1 Ep 7
at this point regular viewers have gotten to know the quirky ensemble cast so part of the comedy derives from the interplay between culturally attuned DJs, chaotic management, and the station manager's endless struggle to keep it together. Many parallels to the film FM released in the same year.
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2156248345/?ref_=ttvg_vi_2
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFtV6-ALoQ
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Ann K
Senior Member.
The show "WKRP in Cincinnati" lasted just a few seasons (1978 to 1982), but the "Turkey drop" episode was a favorite, and gets replayed at this time every year. Sorry for not identifying it to the non-Americans!
purpleivan
Senior Member.
The show must have been on UK TV somwhere, (in the mid to late 80's I think), as I saw it here, then.
John J.
Senior Member.
Yes, I remember the title WKRP in Cincinnati from way back but I don't think I ever watched it.
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