[ExI] plastic turkeys

[John Grigg]

bill w wrote:
"I believe there is a plastic turkey living in the White House."

A plastic turkey in the White House? No, l would say a jive turkey!!!  ;
)

>From Google:
"Why is jive turkey offensive?

*Jive Turkey* was a derogatory slang word in African American Vernacular
English (Ebonics), used to refer to someone who was unreliable, made empty
promises, or who was full of bluster."

Yep!

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 4:59 PM ilsa via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Yup, I laughed out loud!
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 1:52 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I believe there is a plastic turkey living in the White House.   bill w
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 3:48 PM ilsa via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Have any of you purchased the plastic turkey for Thanksgiving? Where do
>>> I get one can I order it online do you have a link?
>>> Grin
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 5:52 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 19/11/2020 21:37, John Grigg wrote:
>>>> > I am actually frustrated with my mother because she attended Columbia
>>>> > University, but did not find a father for me there, who would have
>>>> > most likely provided quality genes for high intelligence. Instead she
>>>> > found a "bad boy" who was tall, handsome and entertaining, a war vet,
>>>> > but of very average intelligence, though street smart. And yet I did
>>>> > not even inherit his movie star good looks, despite him being my
>>>> sperm
>>>> > donor, and the one who most likely constrained my intellectual
>>>> > abilities. His brothers were all very bright, but not him. One of
>>>> them
>>>> > is even in the IBM Hall of Fame. But then I must remember that every
>>>> > conception is a big roll of the genetic dice... I could have come out
>>>> > very different, in either a good/superior or a sad/horrific way...
>>>>
>>>> John, the way I see it is that whoever that hypothetical different
>>>> person would be, they wouldn't be you. That's my answer whenever I'm
>>>> asked if I ever regret anything I've done in my life. If I had done
>>>> things differently, I would have turned out different, and that
>>>> different person wouldn't be who I am now.
>>>>
>>>> No regrets, either about what you did or how you came to be. Be
>>>> thankful
>>>> (to yourself) to have turned out as you.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not, of course, saying don't strive to better yourself (that would,
>>>> on this list, be blasphemy :-D ), just don't have any bad feelings
>>>> about
>>>> things in the past.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Ben Zaiboc
>>>>
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