Welcome to this week’s Quote & Quiz, which moves from its usual Saturday spot to today’s place of honor on Thanksgiving Day.
This special quote comes to us from none other than Lanette Cook, education and engagement manager at the Luvin Arms Animal Sanctuary in Erie, Colorado. Cook asked this of Gus, a farm raised turkey who has been adopted and now resides at Luvin Arms:
“What do you think? Do you want to do snuggles today?”
- Had YSDA editors encountered Gus they would have said:
A) “What do you think? Do you want to do snuggles today?”
B) “Who’s a good turkey? Who’s a good Tom?”
C) “Want to play fetch with your stuffed dog toy?”
D) “Ya know, Gus, you’d look good covered in gravy with a side of stuffing.”
2. Patrons of Luvin Arms can adopt a turkey for only $25. What do they NOT get?
A) A photo of their adopted turkey.
B) An official certificate.
C) A visit to their adoptee.
D) First dibs on the dark meat.
3. If a person adopts a turkey, but then also has turkey dinner on Thanksgiving what does that say?
A) Look, it’s like carbon offsets. When you fly you can pay a little extra to assuage your conscience about your contribution to global warming. It’s like that.
B) The turkey you’re eating was intellectually inferior to Gus, so you’re actually strengthening the gene pool.
C) Have you seen Sophie’s Choice?
D) It’s just what liberals do, okay?!
4. Switching gears now, Donald Trump pardoned two turkeys this week in what has become a White House tradition. What were the turkeys’ names?
A) Gobble and Waddle.
B) Goebbels and Stephen Miller.
C) Gus and Lanette.
D) Eric and Donald, Jr.
5. So uncharacteristically, Trump went off script in a rambling talk. What did he NOT say?
A) The turkeys should have been named Chuck and Nancy, referring to Schumer and Pelosi, and he would, “never pardon those people.”
B) In reference to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, “I refuse to talk about the fact that he’s a fat slob. I don’t mention it.”
C) The turkeys might be sent to “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Trump-inspired Spartan detention center for those accused of being in the country illegally.
D) “On the day appointed for this purpose, let us reflect at our homes or places of worship on the goodness of God and, in giving thanks, let us pray for a speedy end to strife and the establishment on earth of freedom, brotherhood, and justice for enduring time.”
6. Trump also claimed that the price of a Thanksgiving dinner is down from last year. Is he right?
A) Yes, it’s down 2% to 3% from 2024.
B) No, it’s up about 1%.
C) It depends on where you live.
D) All things considered, it’s about the same.
7. A few dozen turkeys will spend the day being pampered at Luvin Arms. How will 46 million other turkeys spend their Thanksgiving?
A) At the local turkey spa.
B) Watching football.
C) Shopping online for Black Friday deals.
D) At the dining room table surrounded by family and friends.
8. What’s the best movie to watch on Thanksgiving?
A) Any Hallmark Christmas movie. They’re all good.
B) Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
C) Die Hard.
D) The Godfather, Parts 1 and 2. (Nobody ever watches 3.)
Answers
1: D
2: D
3: Mostly D, but all answers are acceptable.
4: A
5: D, that was Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, only weeks before Pearl Harbor.
6: All answers are correct. The numbers are all over the place depending on how you look at it, but bottom line is it’s about the same.
7. D
8: D, because it’s all about family, isn’t it?
But seriously, folks, I hope you have a warm and wonderful Thanksgiving.
Yellow Stripes & Dead Armadillos 
Well Dave, I hope you had a very good Thanksgiving with your family. and you did not over eat too much. thank full the Packers are winning, and shocked that the Badgers also are winning now we have to hunker down, BIG SNOW STORM coming our way.
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