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What is the name of the fleshy protuberance that hangs from the top of a turkey's beak?
A Fetlock
B Snaggle
C Snood
D Walter
E Wattle
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Turkeys have a distinctive fleshy wattle that hangs from the underside of the beak, and a fleshy protuberance that hangs from the top of its beak called a snood.
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mj was first, and right, reasoning:
I knew there was a reason I made friends with the taxidermist
A is a part of a hoofed animal'a leg (above the ankle)
B is a tooth that sticks out
D was Carter's VP
E hangs down from the neck of turkeys (and older politicians)
C is it, a snood, which, when engorged with blood, seems to be irresistible to the hens.
Alan J answered:
E Wattle
Charlie responded:
Turkeys have wattles under the chin, and above the beak is the
C Snood
I'll skip the unpleasant things I just saw about turkey farming, but below is the one good cartoon I've found that doesn't demand permission for use.
Adam in NoHo replied:
e- wattle
joe b said:
I know that one from Bart, when he was having joint problems the
Doctor injected Turkey Wattle in his body.
Bart said it worked, even though he thought it was strange.
Marian the Teacher answered:
snood
Sally said:
The fleshy protuberance that hangs from the top of a turkey's beak is called the (E) Wattle.
Over a half-century ago, when I was a child, this was a very common term - also used to describe (usually) older women who had the same abundance of loose flesh under their chins. And, back in those days, when children were, "Seen, but not heard," the fleshy, "wobble" provided wonderful entertainment for wiggly kids attending church/temple services or, at long boring meetings.
Such waddles, along with arm waddles (as shown in Professor Charlie's, "Ode against the Happy Meal" on yesterday's BCE trivia responses) were worn with pride by corn-fed housewives back in the day.
Unfortunately, with the advent of plastic surgery, and the overreaching diet awareness campaigns, today's kids have been deprived of such innocent pleasures at which to gawk...
PS: JOKING - of course
MAM responded with the correct answer and this great explanatory picture:
Answer ~ C Snood
DC Madman deduced:
I'll try process of elimination.
For some reason I associate fetlock with a
horse.
A snaggle toothed tiger has no fleshy protuberance on its face.
Bartcop readers know wattle hangs on a turkey chin.
I'm Walter.
The
answer
must be snood.
Snooty (arrogant with nose in the air), snoop (to nose
around) snot (comes out of a nose)... sno could be a word root for nose.
Combine sno + hood you get snood. A turkey's nose is at the top of
it's
beak and the fleshy protuberance is it's hood. Could snood be defined as a
"nose hood"? Makes perfect sense to me.
And, Joe S wrote:
C: Snood, not to be confused with
a snood.
Thanks to Charlie, Marianne, and Joe S for the pictures.
YOU MADE ME REMEMBER THANKSGIVING DINNER GROWING UP IN MY FAMILY. BUT YOU FORGOT
TO MENTION THE GREAT TURKEY SANDWICHES MADE WITH THE LEFTOVER CANNED CRANBERRY
SAUCE AND TURKEY THAT WE ATE THE NEXT DAY. HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY!
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SAG, representing more than 120,000 actors in movies, television and other media, said in a statement that it will launch a "full-scale education campaign in support of a strike authorization."
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He made his last appearance on Friday and then returned to the jungle to meditate, said Biswo Prakash Newpane, a government administrator in the area. It was not clear when he would return again.
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What is the name of the fleshy protuberance that hangs from the top of a turkey's beak?
Charlie responded:
responded with the correct answer and this great explanatory picture:
