A popular riddle about Thanksgiving dinner is:
Q: What’s the key to a great Thanksgiving dinner?
A: The turkey.
The riddle was posted to the newsgroup alt.humor.puns on November 25, 1999.
“What key has legs and can’t open doors?"/"A turkey” is another key/turkey riddle.
Google Groups: alt.humor.puns
Gobbling up some puns
Bob C.
11/25/99
(...)
What is the key to a good Thanksgiving dinner?
The tur-key!
Google Groups: rec.autos.makers.vw.aircooled
OT- Thanksgiving humor
kev-ceri
11/20/01
(...)
What’s the key to a great Thanksgiving dinner?
The turKEY
GOogle Groups: alt.humor.puns
Puns of the Weak 11/29/02
Stan Kegel
11/29/02
(...)
What’s the key to a great Thanksgiving?
A tur-key, of course! (Kids Jokes)
22 November 2006, Los Angeles (CA) Times, “The Kids’ Reading Room; Jokes & Riddles,” pg. E24, col. 3:
What’s the key to a successful Thanksgiving dinner? A turkey.
Emily, 6
Gisler Elementary
Fountain Valley
Twitter
pachangadiaries
@pachangadiaries
knows what’s the key to a great Thanksgiving dinner? The tur-KEY.
3:59 PM - 27 Nov 2008
Teitter
Tooth Fairy
@toothfairycyber
Canadians: Thanksgiving Long Weekend: What is the KEY to the perfect Thanksgiving Dinner?
A: TurKEY !!! ☺
2:19 PM - 11 Oct 2009
Google Books
Thanksgiving Turkey Jokes For Kids
By Peter Crumpton
PeteyRF Creative
2015
Pg. ?:
What’s the key to a great Thanksgiving dinner?
The turkey!
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Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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