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This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge.  Poems should be posted there when the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 P.M. EST.

Friday Fling #156 November 25th 2011

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!

Fickle Finger of Fate Award for  November 18th

Congratulations Angel Love!