Jump to content
Sign in to follow this  
wiffleball

Turkey preparing to invade Iraq

Recommended Posts

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...mp;refer=europe

 

 

Good. Because we really needed one more CF there.

 

 

 

Which got me to thinking: Why do the call turkeys 'turkeys'? I mean, weren't they discovered here in America? Or did turkeys originate in turkey? Do you think the country was named after the bird - or vice-versa??

 

huh. I'm gonna be thinking about that all day now...

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Turkey:

 

1541, "guinea fowl" (Numida meleagris), imported from Madagascar via Turkey, by Near East traders known as turkey merchants. The larger North American bird (Meleagris gallopavo) was domesticated by the Aztecs, introduced to Spain by conquistadors (1523) and thence to wider Europe, by way of North Africa (then under Ottoman rule) and Turkey (Indian corn was originally turkey corn or turkey wheat in Eng. for the same reason). The word turkey was first applied to it in Eng. 1555 because it was identified with or treated as a species of the guinea fowl. The Turkish name for it is hindi, lit. "Indian," probably via Fr. dinde (contracted from poulet d'inde, lit. "chicken from India"), based on the common misconception that the New World was eastern Asia. The New World bird itself reputedly reached England by 1524 at the earliest estimate, though a date in the 1530s seems more likely. By 1575, turkey was becoming the usual main course at an English Christmas. Meaning "inferior show, failure," is 1927 in show business slang, probably from the bird's reputation for stupidity. Meaning "stupid, ineffectual person" is recorded from 1951. Turkey shoot "something easy" is World War II-era, in ref. to marksmanship contests where turkeys were tied behind a log with their heads showing as targets.

 

Link

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Istanbul was Constantinople

Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

Been a long time gone, Constantinople

Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

 

Every gal in Constantinople

Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople

So if you've a date in Constantinople

She'll be waiting in Istanbul

 

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

Why they changed it I can't say

People just liked it better that way

 

So take me back to Constantinople

No, you can't go back to Constantinople

Been a long time gone, Constantinople

Why did Constantinople get the works

That's nobody's business but the Turks

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Istanbul was Constantinople

Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

Been a long time gone, Constantinople

Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

 

Every gal in Constantinople

Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople

So if you've a date in Constantinople

She'll be waiting in Istanbul

 

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

Why they changed it I can't say

People just liked it better that way

 

So take me back to Constantinople

No, you can't go back to Constantinople

Been a long time gone, Constantinople

Why did Constantinople get the works

That's nobody's business but the Turks

 

 

TMBG :dunno:

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...mp;refer=europe

Good. Because we really needed one more CF there.

Which got me to thinking: Why do the call turkeys 'turkeys'? I mean, weren't they discovered here in America? Or did turkeys originate in turkey? Do you think the country was named after the bird - or vice-versa??

 

huh. I'm gonna be thinking about that all day now...

 

 

If Syria attacked Turkey from the rear, would Greece help :cry:

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Turks hate the Kurds, northern Iraq is nothing but Kurds, they gonna assrape them.... :cry:

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
Sign in to follow this  

×