[HopeydaFish]

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Just thought of another one...

When I was about 17, a friend of mine was trying to quit smoking. I saw him at school and he looked a little pale. I asked him what was wrong and he said that he "quit cold turkey" and thought it was making him sick.

"Why, because of the withdrawal?" I asked him.

"No, I think that eating the uncooked turkey gave me food poisoning or something."

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i don't believe this

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I swear that it's true. When I started laughing at him and explained to him what "cold turkey" really means, he was mortified and got all panicky and tried to get me swear never to tell any of our other friends what he'd done.

The interesting part is that he took "cold turkey" to mean "cold *raw* turkey"...and this was one of the smarter guys I knew growing up.