For Scott

Scott K. wanted to know, "Why PoofyTurkey?" This text is from my old site, poofyturkey.com - I will work on retrieving the photos and video clips that were associated with it...

The Name:
Poofy Turkey... Where did it come from? In order to figure that out we must travel back in time to Thanksgiving in the year 2000. Picture it, Wednesday night, Florence, SC - Justin, my parents, and I are sitting in front of the TV watch South Park's Thanksgiving episode of the year. It was actually episode 404 - Hellen Keller! The Musical. Original Air date - 11-22-2000.

So, I must provide some background information for this all to make since.... let us travel even further back in time... It is July 1996, in Columbia, SC on the USC campus in the lobby of Patterson Hall. Leslie and Justin first met.

He and I remained friends for a good while, but when he went off to college we lost touch.

We can fast forward now... It is Sunday, August 20, 2000 - Columbia, SC on the USC campus in the grilled cheese line at The Grand Market Place. Leslie and Justin meet again. This time they stay bound at the hip. Things go well, and Justin goes home with me for Thanksgiving - he had met my parents on many occasions before this. Dad and Justin had already found a common bond - the TV, specifically wrestling, South Park and The Simpson's.

So, we are back to the first time travel point. At that time Justin was constantly calling me "prissy." I didn't hate it but I didn't really care for it either. The episode's story goes something like this... The kids in South Park are in 4th grade and they are suppose to put on a play, The Miracle Worker, you know - the Helen Keller story. So, after some stuff goes down it turns into the Helen Keller Thanksgiving Extravaganza. Timmy, the lovely mentally challenged child who can only say his name - is playing Helen, and it is determined that he must have a pet turkey in the play. So, Kyle and Timmy are given money and are sent to find a turkey. (Please view this video clip [right click and download the file and play it in Real Media Player], or listen to this sound clip [this is a wav file it must be downloaded as well]. This part of the story also corresponds to this picture.)

Kyle and Timmy come back with a "physically challenged turkey," that Timmy has favorable named Gobbles (picture, sound clip). And as Kyle said, none of the other kids liked Gobbles too much. When Kyle asks what he should have done about Timmy and the turkey Cartman tells him this...(sound clip).

Cartman brought in a broadway coach, Geoffry Maynard, to help them with the play, and he is VERY unhappy with gobbles (sound clip). So, he proceeds to sing a song about getting them a new turkey (sound clip). The next day an animal trainer, LaManne, shows up with a beautiful turkey that performs fabulous feats. Her name is Alanecia (we called her "poofy" - picture - she is rather poofy).

Well, it turns out that Alanecia is a very prissy turkey, and she doesn't play well with other turkeys (video clip, sound clip), so a conspiracy to get rid of Gobbles occurs. Cartman tries to kill Gobbles, but it doesn't work so one of the old guys tells Timmy that people are going to take Gobbles away (video clip, sound clip).

Timmy frees Gobbles, but is sad, and then he finds out that it was a trick, and the mean old dude tells Timmy that it is just show business, (sound clip). So, Timmy goes to find Gobbles - and it turns out that why Gobbles was alone he was almost "humanely" killed (video clip).

To make a really long story a tad shorter - Alanecia gets shot and Gobbles lives happily ever after.

---- So - technically my nickname comes from a dead cartoon turkey named Alanecia. She was a prissy poofy turkey, and over time (like 5 minutes) the name prissy poofy turkey became too long, so it was dropped to poofy turkey. On many occasions it is just "poof," "poofy," "turkey," or just plain old "turk." Anyhow, that is basically how I got the name. Hope you enjoyed the info.