"Talking Turkey"

Well I had a post written out about how the Friendly's in my hometown has closed, and the memories I had of that place. But after I finnished it, I erased it by accident. Maybe, I will write about it later if I feel like it.

Anyway instead of bidding farwell to Friendly's today. I am going to provide my readers with Turkey facts! Yup, its me just basically cut and pasting text from another webpage. But, hey Tucker's World is free what do you want? Not to mention you should know a lot about this flightless creature before you carve the bastard up and eat him don't you think?

Turkey Facts
At one time, the turkey and the bald eagle were each considered as the national symbol of America. Benjamin Franklin was one of those who argued passionately on behalf of the turkey. Franklin felt the turkey, although "vain and silly", was a better choice than the bald eagle, whom he felt was "a coward".

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the U.S. at Thanksgiving—that's one sixth of all turkeys sold in the U.S. each year. American per capita consumption of turkeys has soared from 8.3 pounds in 1975 to 18.5 pounds last year.

Last year, 2.7 billion pounds of turkey was processed in the United States.
In 1995, retail sales of turkey reached approximately $4.4 billion. They are expected to reach $4.7 billion in 2000.

Age is a determining factor in taste. Old, large males are preferable to young toms (males) as tom meat is stringy. The opposite is true for females: old hens are tougher birds.
A turkey under sixteen weeks of age is called a fryer, while a young roaster is five to seven months old.

Turkeys are the only breed of poultry native to the Western Hemisphere.
Turkeys have great hearing, but no external ears. They can also see in color, and have excellent visual acuity and a wide field of vision (about 270 degrees), which makes sneaking up on them difficult. However, turkeys have a poor sense of smell (what's cooking?), but an excellent sense of taste.

Domesticated turkeys cannot fly. Wild turkeys, however, can fly for short distances at speeds up to 55 miles per hour. They can also reach speeds of 25 miles per hour on the ground.
Turkeys sometimes spend the night in trees.

Turkeys can have heart attacks: turkeys in fields near the Air Force test areas over which the sound barrier was broken were known to drop dead from the shock of passing jets
The ballroom dance known as the Turkey Trot was named for the short, jerky steps a turkey makes.

"Rocky's Back!"

This is a still of Rocky Balboa which partly filmed in Philly mid winter last year.

The movie will punch it's way into theaters Dec22. Who will be there with me?

Try to pick the plot line for the 6th installment of the move series. One of them is seriously right.

1. Rocky Fights William Penn
2. Rocky learns that his video game counter part can beat the hottest fighter in the game, so he wants to see if he can do it in real life too.
3. Rocky is broke and tries to raise money so his wife can have an operation. If he doesn't raise the money she will die.
4. Rocky ends up having to fight his own son!
5. Rocky Fights Bobby Clarke
6. Rocky goes to space and fights ALIEN
7. Rocky plays in a senior league
8. Rocky actually dies in the first 5 mins of the film, and the rest of the movie he is only in flash backs. His son has to live in his fathers shadow.
9. Keith should have gone to bed a half an hour ago.

"The Life & Death of Optimus Prime"

Here is a good article on Peter Cullen who voiced Optimus Prime both in the cartoon and the up coming (likely to be awful) live action film The Transformers. Enjoy.

"Swing 2 the Left"

The democrats have control of both the house and the senate now. After years of shouting from the peanut gallery its their turn to show the country what they can do. They will likely strong arm President Bush (Mr. Bush to you ABCnews viewers) and change the policy in Iraq.

I don't know if there is a special meeting some place for the liberals of America or not, but for the years while they were out of power crazy rumors would fly. For example about a month into the Iraq war every Dick and Harry on the street would tell me that we are going to war with Syria. Any day now! We are attacking them! It never happened. John Kerry had a "Plan" he never bothered to explain during his White House bid, nor after the fact to help his country.

I recall when Bush got reelected that many of my friends were so scared from all the talking points from the left, that they though that the day after election day everyone was being drafted. I know someone who actually was ready to go to Canada that week, and was almost having a panic attack the next day in fear the draft people were coming for him.

I am not knocking the democrats really I am not. But, lets face it one of the big issues they face is not only Iraq and terrorism in general. I want the troops home as much as the next guy, but is cutting and running the best option? Also, I fear they really do simplify the terrorism problem too much. Ignoring didn't work in the 90's, so I doubt it will work this time. They were always saying if they ran the show thing would be different. Well does that old saying go? Be careful what you wish for.

Just to ward off the lynching that will come upon me (I mean you FOXNEWS guy) I would like to say that I didn't vote this past election. Because, I am utterly feed up with politicians and both parties in general. I also didn't see a point, since my vote would not have matter in NJ anyway. Maybe that makes me a bad person, but again that's my right not to vote. Also, I do feel we need a change in this country, but considering the fact I didn't hear much from the left other than they think the right sucks I am pretty cynical.

Anyway here is a map to show the way America voted this past week.

"My Scrubs Fix"

Last fall I thought I would start watching Scrubs off netflix, because I had seen a few in my life and always thought it was pretty funny. However, I missed a ton and eventually felt like I couldn't watch the show anymore, since I was so far out of it.

Thanks to Netflix, I could watch the previous seasons. Even though season 5 started last spring, I didn't bother to watch it since I was only up to season 2 at the time and most of the time the Flyers played against the Scrubs airings. Anyway, I fell in love with show pretty quickly. It is pretty whacky and random in a good way. At the same time they have had some really emotional episodes and the cast has stayed the same during the entire run and always delivers solid performances. Some people think Season 4 and 5 were lousy, but I think they were just fine with me. The show has had some huge name guest stars along the way too.

Now Scrubs is coming back at the end of the month for the 6th (and rumored to be last) season. It will be on Thursday Nights after the Office (which I just started watching recently, through DVDS). Now I was in quite a hard place here. See, I would want to watch a season fresh with everyone else for the first time. However, season 5 was not on DVD! What was a Scrubs fan to do? Just always be a year behind? Thankfully I found this link which has every Scrubs show EVER! Whats great about is, you dont have to download or anything. Just click and enjoy!

In addition it has FAmily Guy and almost all the Adult Swim shows. Including my personal fav. THE BRAK SHOW!

So, I will most certainly be done by the time they start airing new shows. If it is the last season, It might be a good thing NBC has treated the show like crap the last two seasons. Last season they were filming, but refused to air them till mid-season. I would rather them have a shot to wrap it up, than have NBC just not put them on the fall lineup. Anyway, if it is the last season, I am glad I will be there to watch the airings first hand.

"Back to the Shooting Board"

Things have gotten so hopeless for the Philadelphia Flyers who are basically out of the playoff picture the first week in November, that newbie coach John Stevens treated them like pee-wee hockey players earlier this week. He drove to the local home depot to and bought plywood. He than put the wood at the bottom half of the net for the next practice. Point being, his team is rattling a lot of shots off and not scoring. Their shots are basically lame and easily stopped by even the most average goalie. Most of them are on the ice, not in the air.

The team is desperate to get out of the mental funk. Everyone in the hockey world refers to them as "fragile". Meaning basically one thing goes wrong, and you might as well turn the lights off and chalk up another L.

Honestly, it everytime I think this team has hit rock bottom, they go farther into the depths of hell. I mean even Gagne and Forsberg are not above being blamed. Gags has 10 pts in 14 games and "Peter The Great" Has 9 in 13. But the #1 reason I think this team sucks, is the younger players who were expected to score are not. Mike Richards zero goals and 3 assists in 14 games. Umberger has just 3 goals in 13 games and helpers. Carter 4pts (only 1 goal) in 14 games. Awful. Add in the dreadful Kyle Caldar who has just two assists, and leads the league in dumb plays.

The board ploy didn't work. The awful Isles blanked Philly in Philly no less. Awful. The season is over and look for them to deal Gagne, Umberger, or Escehe by the end of the week.

"The President Is Not Crying"

For the first time since 1994 the Democrats have control of the house. They still need 3 to control the Senate.

What his means as far as I can gather (I am no expert by any means) that the democrats will pretty much control the money for the country. If they want to cut funding for Iraq or over through Bush taxe cuts they can. Although they said they won't cut funding for Iraq.

There could be very likely an investigation lead by the now in power democrats about the war in Iraq and the intelligence and decisions that lead up to the war. Also, perhaps contracts given to companies helping out in Iraq could come under fire.

President Bush (Mr. Bush for you ABC NEWs viewers) suffered perhaps the biggest 2nd term meltdown in the history of American politics. I am really not surprised about the way things are turning out tonight. Considering even people that voted for Bush or supported Bush in 2004 have turned their back on him. Many people were just jumping the ship. The democrats will likely even lean on the moderates to have them "toe the line". Basically though not many laws will be passed, just two sides fighting with each other. Gridlock.

It's hard to really gage sometimes on the pulse of the country since New Jersey is about as liberal as you can get. Most people tell me they think Bush is worst than Hitler, and Saddam combined. However, talking to some people that moved here from other parts of the country they almost sheepishly reply they like Bush. Likey out of fear their cars will be flipped by angry democrats "Chanting worse than Hitler" still stinging from the Kerry disaster.

But the election results spoke volumnes really. States that haven't gone to democrats for ages, went to democrats. Republicans that have won (or have been porjected to win at this point) did it by the skin of their teeth.

People are generally pissed about the war in Iraq and you have to think even some people that might have done a good job, lost their election because of ties to Bush. People that were even popular in their states.

Sure Bush can still veto some stuff. But let's face it he is defeated man, and has seemed burned out over the last year.

Winds of change of blown from sea to shining sea. There are a lot of nicknames for President Bush out there, and I think you can officailly add Lame Duck to ths list. Thoughts?

Also, my hat is off to Count Chocucla for winning the Tucker's World Election.

"Projected Winner.."

The winner of the Tucker's World election is,,, Count Chocula! Wait ?!? What?!?! That doesn't make any sense at all!!!!

Well anyway thanks for everyone voted, even all those dead people that voted, and all the homeless people that the democrats paid to vote for the count.

Let's see if we can listen in on the Count's speech!

"Well Fang, You all very much"

::: Applause:::

"I look forward to sinking my teeth into getting America back on course!"

::: Applause:::

"This election was a real blood bath, BLAH!"

::: Applause::

"It was real neck and neck for awhile there"

::Cheering:::

"Watching the results and waiting was driving me batty"

:::Cheering::::

"There was a lot at stake for this election!"

:::Cheering:::

"Vote Megatron"

We need a change! Vote for someone who is pig headed and won't listen to anyone about a plan of an attack no matter how many failures there are. We need a change! Vote someone obessed with energon and taking over all the energon sources of the world! We need a change! Vote for someone hated in every galaxy of the universe. We need a change! Wait a second....

"Vote Zombie Corpse Of Scatman "

As all of you know I love the beloved late Scatman Crothers (The Shining, Transformers: The Movie, The Shootist) and in fact I was just going to post a really cool picture of Scatman for this one. He always looked cool. But when I did a google image search one of the first images that came up was "Zombie Corpse of Scatman". I have no idea what this is all about. But he looks like he really wants your vote, and I guess all the pro-human eating flesh voters will be casting their votes for this guy.

"Vote Dr. Cox"

Well if he wins he will call the loser a bunch a of girl names and just rip on them for like 5 minutes. If he loses he will call the winner a bunch of girl names and just rip on them for like 5 minutes. Its win/win.

"Vote Kermit"

Time to check off the box for the green party. Screw the other guys. The only mud slinging this guy ever did was back at the pond from lilly pad to lilly pad. This should be easy for you waivering democrats, because like your idol Clinton he has a history of getting it on with a fat pig.

"Vote Gore"

When you vote today, just remember vote for Al Gore! If Gore doesn't win he will shoot Regis. GORE! GORE! GORE! GORE! GORE! GORE!

"Superman II: Redo"

Check this out. It is cool that the film is being redited. However, considering the fact that some important scenes that the original director Richard Donner planned were never shot I figured there would be issues. Anyway for fans of the series like me, it will be big deal.

Superman IV is still rumored to have the long sought missing scenes in a special features section. I would love to see that, and I am sure someone will edit all together and put it online some place. I honestly think that it will only have the scenes from the syndication verision which were just about 1.5 mins of bad effects footage. I would love to see lost scenes with HAckman and Reeve though. It could also maybe have a new Superman battle scene.

I really want to buy these movies, but than I will have two sets of the Superman movies. Maybe I will rent it first to see if its worth it. I don't expect much to be done with the first one (they did a ton the first release) or Superman III.

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2006-11-01/

"In Search Of The Jersey Devil"

ACTION NEWS's Matt O'donnell went out recently to search for the legend of the jersey devil.
If you follow the link I will provide for you, you will be able to check out the story in two parts. Some of it wasn't even aired on channel 6 (you can tell its a rough cut of a news story), so hopefully your work lets you watch videos, unlike mine.

Anyway the first part is Matt searching for the birthplace of the Jersey Devil. The 2nd part is Matt basically saying what he thinks the whole Devil thing is about.

I don't agree with his theory. Although I don't think there was an actual devil, and I do think the time in the early 1900's when a ton of sightings were taking South Jersey by storm something was there. Just not what Matt thinks it was. But certainly in that day and age people would not have just all made up stuff to get on tv, so something most have been in the area during that time.

There are other links with the story including an official Jersey Devil Hunters site. I havent had time to check all of them out.

What does everyone think of the Jersey Devil?

" I Was Working In The Lab Late One Night..."

I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight. For my monster from his slab began to rise; And suddenly to my surprise He did the mash. He did the monster mash The monster mash!

It was a graveyard smash! He did the mash. It caught on in a flash! He did the mash. He did the monster mash.

From my laboratory in the castle east. To the master bedroom where the vampires feast .The ghouls all came from their humble abodes .To get a jolt from my electrodes.

They did the mash. They did the monster mash .The monster mash! It was a graveyard smash! They did the mash!It caught on in a flash!They did the mash.

They did the monster mash. The zombies were having fun. The party had just begun. The guests included Wolf Man Dracula and his son. The scene was rockin', all were digging the sounds. Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds .The coffin-bangers were about to arrive With their vocal group, "The Crypt-Kicker Five"

They played the mash!They played the monster mash. The monster mash. It was a graveyard smash! They played the mash. It caught on in a flash! They played the mash! They played the monster mash!

Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring Seems he was troubled by just one thing

He opened the lid and shook his fist And said,

"Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?"

It's now the mash It's now the monster mash! The monster mash! And it's a graveyard smash! It's now the mash! It's caught on in a flash !It's now the mash! It's now the monster mash! Now everything's cool, Drac's a part of the band And my monster mash is the hit of the land!

For you, the living, this mash was meant too. When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you Then you can mash! Then you can monster mash!The monster mash! And do my graveyard smash! Then you can mash You'll catch on in a flash Then you can mash Then you can monster mash

"Fans Speak Out"

During the Flyers game last not when they got blown out by the Penguins the fans voiced how unhappy they were with John Stevens already. In fact they were actually asking for a new coach by name. Clearly they think Pat Burns can step in and turn things around. I could clearly hear during the broadcast the fans all chanting Booo-urns....Boo---urns.....

"YOUTUBE Pimp Tucker"

It's time for a new feature on Tucker's. It's called "A link is posted directing you to a girl dancing to some sort of a song, in a UTUBE video for all to see, and comment on"

I would promise you that this would be a weekly feature. But of course that would be just a lie. Its okay to check her out, because according to her profile she is 18!

Yeah she looks down right silly at times but shes wearing short shorts and tight top. She is doing it so people that use "The Google" on the "Internets" can watch her shake her little butt and rip her to pieces or praise her little dance via the comments section.

So, without farther to do, here is some random girl none of us will ever meet who likely would classify myself and all my readers as "old dudes" dancing to "I'm a Hoe". Tell me what you think!

My god, its 10:11 on Saturday and I haven't had a beer yet.

"Afterhours Tucker"

So, I came home and watched Sopranos DVD, followed up by Thank You for Smoking. I was quite enjoying Thank You for Smoking, but I started to get really sleepy. I kept fighting it, but was like ah, screw it. I can just pause it and comeback. So I did. This was at like 7:30.

I didn't wake up till, oh about 10:45 or so. I decided, what the heck, I didnt have too much left in the movie, might as well watch and go back to sleep. However, that was a mistake since I am pretty much wide awake now after being in my virtual coma. Wide awake.

So, yup its uh, 12:26 am. So I decided I was going to blog.

::::clears throat:::::

:::: looking around quiet dark room ::::


Yup I decided to blog.


mmm hmmm..


logging on to the OLD dashboard.


ready to share my thoughts and life with all my readers.


::::looking around room some more ::::

Man, I sure have a lot of jeans on my bedroom floor! I didn't even know I had that many! I think some are like 3 years old. I usually keep them untill the ass part wears out. I am going to go fold them and put them in a pile. Be right back.....


Alright I am back.

I am having hotdogs for dinner tomorrow night. God, I love hotdogs. When I die, I want to be burried in Jeans and everyone should eat hotdogs at my wake.

::::peering out window::::


Nope nothing much going on out there tonight. Yup quite the quiet night. Used to be a stray cat that would wonder around the parking lot around this time. Haven't seen him in awhile. Sure hope he found a good home.

I had to wipe my window off its all foggy!

I wonder if there is going to be frost on my car in the morning. Weatherman said it was going to be mighty cold for this time of year tonight.

:::peering out again:::

nah, nothing yet.


::whistling to myself:::

Hmm...

Sharkey's is open till 3am....

hmmm...

I think I could go up there if they had cool arcade games. I am in the mood for good old aracade game. Not a playstation game. But a good old fashion put your quarters in the machine and move the little stick around and smash up the buttons. If they had rampage at that bar, I would have already hit publish post and been out the door.

((( laughing ))))

::: picturing king kong smashing up big bulidings and eating humans ::::

So, much destruction! What a big ass ape! Like those helicopters are going to stop him!

I just went and unloaded the dishwasher..one less thing to do tomorrow before the Flyers game.

So this must be what its like to have a small kid. Waking up randomly in the middle of the night. Getting sleep whenever you can.


Where is Drew lately? He never comments on this blog anymore. Well, if he doesn't in the next week or so, I am just going to start insulting his mother till he does.

I already took a nice warm bath...that didn't help. Nothing like a nice warm bath on a chilly night.

Man it sure is quiet tonight...


Am I the only one who thinks Rachel Ray is hot? Got, shes slammin sometimes. Maybe its cause she can cook. With those 30 minute meals. If she were here tonight I could think of something that would that would take up about 5 minutes of her time. AFTER she cooked me a meal!


Maybe 6 minutes I am wide awake.


::clearing throat::::


I am going to go check on my Scooby Chia pet.


Man its getting big!


You guys remember the featherless chicken?!!? Wierd, huh?

Well this concludes our broadcast day! If you read this whole post 37 Tucker's World Points to you. -

"Bad Joke Weds"!

How do you know policemen are strong?
Because they can hold up traffic.


How do you kill a circus?
Go for the juggler.


Why was the broom late?
Because he overswept.

Why didn't the leopard go on vacation?
It couldn't find the right spot.


Did you hear about the girl who skipped rope while she read?
She jumped to conclusions.

What did the potato ask the cow?
Give me some milk, and we can make mashed potatoes


How do you know when the moon is going broke?
When it's down to its last quarter.


What's the difference between a moose and an ant?
A moose has antlers, but an ant doesn't have mooselers.


How do you catch a tame rabbit?
The tame way -- unique up on him.

Stop, me Stop me now I have more!