Happy Thanksgiving everyone out there in Hokieland.  Now while it might be weird eating your mascot, enjoy the day and, of course, relate any hilarious stories back to us where if we get enough, we can post them all after the holiday and have a good laugh.

Now if you're saying, "Northerner, I want to talk about VT and look smart today at the dinner table, all while tying it to Thanksgiving."  Well, friend, I have your answer:

From MSNBC.com via Washington Post:

If ever there were a candidate for genetic engineering, surely it is the pale, flavor-challenged bird that will adorn millions of American dinner tables Thursday as a matter of Thanksgiving ritual.

And here is a reason to give thanks: The day of the super-turkey might be nigh.

Virginia Tech scientists announced this week that they have secured funding to complete the genetic map of Meleagris gallopavo, the domesticated turkey. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a two-year, $908,000 grant to Tech and the Univeristy of Minnesota to finish decoding the turkey, one of a few species to be mapped at the genetic level. Turkeys are the fourth-leading source of meat on dinner tables. Cows, chickens and pigs have been genetically catalogued.

Gobble Gobble, bitches. Happy Thanksgiving.

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