Turkeys

[gothwalk]

We're doing Thanksgiving promotions for Sports Interaction. And they feature cheerful turkeys. Now, why, I ask you, should turkeys be cheerful at Thanksgiving? They're going to be eaten. With gravy. Unless they know something we don't, and they're going to rise from the dinner table as vicious zombie turkeys. Besides, have you ever seen a cheerful turkey, alive or dead? Turkeys are morbid bastards. Morbid, vicious, beady-eyed bastards. Not cheerful at all.

Comments

Oh, I don't know about that....

[goblin-ballista.livejournal.com]

I have fond memories of very cheerful turkeys for the month of December, when we picked out our Christmas turkey for the dinner we would feed it grain soaked with brandy and wallnuts for the two weeks before we broke it's neck and hung it up in order to enhance the flavour. Not so much of the morbid and vicious, more drunk and bloated.

-F

[utterlymundane.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, would you want the kind of people who'd be attracted by seeing how morbid and sad the turkeys are as your customers? The kind of people who'd look at depressed turkeys and think "Man, I gotta get me some of that"?

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

We operate a bookmakers. A bookmakers where we never meet our customers. As long as they continue to place bets, I'm sure the Boss doesn't mind what kind of people they are.

[utterlymundane.livejournal.com]

Perhaps morbid people are regarded as apathetic and fatalistic by the gambling industry, and hence unlikely to bet much?

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

My mother-in-law sent us a Thanksgiving card. The front is painted with a cartoonish turkey against a target and it says, "Have a happy Thanksgiving or the turkey gets it." On the inside, it says, "Of course, the turkey gets it anyway."

I'm not sure whether I find the card disturbing or the fact that she sent us one to begin with.

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

Of course any turkey around at the moment will have survived the thanksgiving slaughter..err..harvest.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

I've always been disturbed by logos for barbecue places featuring grinning pigs, etc. Seems a bit ODD.