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The Bilingual Turkeys Who Smelled Sweet Freedom · 23 March 07
Excellent English education poster potted in my school hallway:
(Click here to zoom in.)
The poster's text:
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I CAN SMELL FREEDOM!
Frame 1 [two turkeys talking]
TURKEY 1: Hey, Paul!
TURKEY 2 (PAUL): Huh?
Frame 2[T1 pointing to a massive wall]
TEXT: WHAT A WONDERFUL WALL!
T1: Look! There's a world of freedom over that wall.
PAUL: Really? Awesome! It's like the Berlin Wall! Cool. man!
Frame 3 [both turkeys leaping over massive wall]:
SAID TOGETHER: Wow! We're free!
Frame 4 [both turkeys pressing faces to ground out of gratitude]
SAID TOGETHER: I can smell freedom!
Frame 4 [turkeys gazing at campus-type building in the hazy distance]
PAUL: You know what? I think I'll take the Eiken test and then study abroad in Australia!
T1: Sounds great!
PAUL: I'm gonna give it a shot. You should try, too!!
TO BE CONTINUED
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I can honestly say that I wish I had made the text up, because that would mean I was responsible for the copy of one of the greatest posters in the history of man.
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Who the heck is the big white enforcer with the deformed left arm? It looks like a young coach Ditka. Is coach Ditka holding Japanese turkeys hostage in East Berlin?
— Dan 1778 days ago #
Defending the rights of turkeys (presumably to not get eaten)?
Promoting AUSTRALIA?
I can smell an anti-British conspiracy.
And I thought you knew better.
— Onika 1777 days ago #
Wow man, this is fan-tab! What is this for? And any info you can give on who was responsible for it would be fun and friendly.
— eat a bug 1777 days ago #
Oh, how I wish I had that poster to hang in Children’s Services at Natchitoches Parish Library, Natchitoches, Louisiana. Still hoping to escape back to Japan. The way things are going, there’d surely be a trail of folks behind me ready to jump over the wall!
— maruchan 1776 days ago #
DAN: Possibly.
ONIKA: Unlikely.
EAT_A_BUG: It’s for the Japanese Eiken (standardized english test) test. It’s the bottom half of the poster, the top has all these cool little inspirational bits. All the eiken posters have used this cool illustration style for the past few years.
MARUCHAN: I think only turkeys can jump over the wall.
— saleem 1768 days ago #