The Friday Fling Reprises Going Turk On Turkey Day!
This is a reprise of our challenge #156 from November 25th, 2011.
It received 192 views, 146 comments and 14 hearts. Oh for The Good Old Days!
Friday Fling #260 November 29th 2013
When I was a teenager a favorite expression to describe someone getting very excited about something – or getting angry or going nuts over it – was “Go Turk.” So a friend gets excited and usually later you’d describe him or her as having “gone Turk.” Actually I never knew whether it was intended to reflect a turkey panicking and making noise or something having to do with an attack by a Turkish soldier back in Ottoman Empire days. LOL
This is Thanksgivingtime in the US. Thanksgiving is also known informally as Turkey Day. So we thought, why not use that old expression as a theme for our Thanksgiving Fling. What makes you “go Turk” on Thanksgiving? What gets you most excited by it, and/or what do you enjoy most about it? Or what about it most likely would make you angry?
Since Friday is Black Friday, the first shopping day of the Christmas season, we’ll also include that in possible topics.
To reflect the many varieties of Thanksgiving celebration, we saved our one-a-month no recommended format Fling for this one! Writer’s format choice, or freeform!
This week the Friday Fling celebrates what makes us “go Turk” on Thanksgiving!
Be sure to save time to read and comment thankfully on your fellow Pals’ Turkology. Then “go Turk” this weekend! In a good way!
Hello to everyone .. Welcome to Friday Fling .. Bob will be here a bit later .. Hope all had a blessed .. Hugs .. :love: :love:
This is from 2007, just for fun, suggesting that even turkeys can go Turk on Thanksgiving – or any other day:
On a drive through the Berkshire hills of Western Massachusetts today. we saw a pair of wild turkeys by the side of the road. That inspired the following:
HOT TO TROT TURKEYS
Two turkeys
waited
for a bus.
They got to gobbling,
hobnobbling,
and fell in love
right there.
Two turkeys,
lost in lust,
missed the bus.
Didn’t care.
© 2007 RGD
Like Bob here above me write just a little fun piece for here .. Hope will enjoy .. Hugs .. :love: :love:
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HAPPY TURKEY DAY
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The excitement
I get from
Thanksgiving
Is family and friends
Gratherin on this special day
Good foods drinks
And the love thats shared
But what makes me
Go Turk is
Not havin chocolates
And lots of cranberries
So love me sweets
Dont have sweets
Sum gotta give
~
Written By: Bettie Davis ——————————- © November 28 , 2o13