Maybe we’re cheeseballs, but we love the Annual Turkey Ceremony, the moment when the president “pardons” a lucky turkey (plus an alternate) who then becomes the official National Thanksgiving Turkey and gets to spend the rest of its days on some farm at Disneyworld or something like that. Sure, it’s capricious and cutesy, but who cares! Turkeys are funny looking, and presidents posing with turkeys are even funnier.

This year will mark the 60th anniversary of the National Thanksgiving Turkey presentation. You can still vote on the names for the national turkeys over here. We’re pulling for Wish & Bone.

But as much as we love the turkey pardon, we love what someone has recently done to the Wikipedia entry for the ceremony even more:

During the 2001 ceremony, President Bushdecided to change this long running tradition by retracting the official presidential pardon and declared war on the turkey. President Bush went on to slaughter 250 turkeys that first year and that number has grown substantially every year since. The president went on to declare that their was only one turkey worthy of the white house table and that was the Bell Evans turkey, the turkey that president Bush called “the best”.

This will no doubt get taken down soon after we post this, but to whoever pulled this one off: Bravo! Happy Thanksgiving!

Photo courtesy whitehouse.gov