jive turkey

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jive turkey

n. a stupid person. What jive turkey made this mess?

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IS A JIVE TURKEY? 5WHO TESS Daly and Claudia Winkleman host a Strictly Come Dancing special with past celebrities including Pamela Stephenson and TV chef Ainsley Harriott.

'TIS THE SEASON TO WATCH TELLY. marion mcmullen SNEAKS AN EARLY PEEK AT SOME OF TV'S FESTIVE TREATS

Some jive turkey spoiled Thanksgiving for a Delta Waterfowl regional director.

Stolen goods

The tracks are "Beautiful Flower" (4:14), "Mewasin Oma" (3:37), "Good Medicine Horse" (2:59), "Short and Petite" (Side-Step, 1:52), "The Bucks" (3:30), "Twin Cities Love" (2:35), "Battle River Style" (2:41), "Bradley's Sweet Sensation" (4:33), "The Rose Part 2" (Side-Step, 2:07), "Jive Turkey" (3:28), "Makaoo" (3:19), "Owass Stick" (3:28), "Onion Lake First Nation" (3:17), "The Gambler" (4:21) and "Sid the Kid" (2:56).

Kihta Wasoh Wapakwani

THE DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING IN 2005, Aricka Westbrooks, 35, CEO of Jive Turkey, was sleeping on a wooden stool, leaning against the wall of her 1,500-square-foot store in Brooklyn, New York She and her staff were exhausted from frying turkeys 24 hours a day for four days straight.

Signature dish: Aricka Westbrooks ships her legendary deep-fried turkey to customers by mail

In spite of Jive Turkey, a Brooklyn store (motto: grab, gobble, go) selling fried turkey all year round, Rick Boyd, a commercial turkey fryer from Florida said that if botched, this high-risk cooking method was ``like a space-shuttle taking off''.

VALERIE HILL: American turkey

His words give her a glittering ball dangling from the ceiling; men in wide-lapelled jackets,women in tube tops and hot pants; roller skates on everyone; jive turkeys and hot mamas all getting down and doing The Batman, The Bump, The Funky Chicken, The Hustle, and The Penguin as they come down the Soul Train line.