# Ankara explosion: Do they have to keep calling it...

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**Created:** [February 2, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankara-explosion-do-they-have-to-keep-calling-it/649087 "2013-02-02T00:16:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankara-explosion-do-they-have-to-keep-calling-it/649087/1 "2013-02-02T00:16:25Z")

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…a “[TURKEY BOMB](http://news.sky.com/story/1046345/turkey-bomb-who-may-be-to-blame-for-attack)”?

It’s not like he brought out a deep fryer full of hot oil, dropped in a frozen bird and BLAM!

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankara-explosion-do-they-have-to-keep-calling-it/649087/2 "2013-02-02T00:41:19Z")

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As God is my witness, I thought turkeys were inert.

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**Author:** ![Pacific420](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Pacific420](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pacific420)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ankara-explosion-do-they-have-to-keep-calling-it/649087/3 "2013-02-03T03:25:55Z")

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> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> As God is my witness, I thought turkeys were inert.

That’s nothing! Les Nessman thought they could fly! :smack:

ETF: spelling