Help for turkeys

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(Photo, Cooking for Engineers)

The cook or the bird? I'm not going there.

But here are some helpful links, just in case you don't have thirty people helping, advising and critiquing you today --

"Butterball® Help and Hotline"

"USDA 'Ask Karen' Page" and Hotline at 888-674-6854

If the help you need is managing guests and avoiding landmines, check out "Pass a Drumstick, and an Olive Branch".

For a meditation on our Thanksgiving history, turn to Joel Schwartzenberg's OpEd in today's Ledger, "Turkeys, yesterday and today"

And for your good humor dose, there's always Art Buchwald, "A Turkey With French Dressing"

Plastic turkeys, like the one President George W. Bush was pictured with while making a surprise visit to the troops in Baghdad on Thanksgiving Day, 2003, are not recommended.

The news this morning is full of reports that another turkey is on a surprise visit to Baghdad today -- Vice President Dick Cheney. Though the US refuses to confirm the visit, Baghdad media are reportedly full of pictures. Go figure.

With a little bit of help from your friends, you ought to be able to get from the top picture to this --

(Photo, Grafton Gourmet)

-- Dan Damon

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