Thanksgiving Turduckenen-duckenen

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Thanksgiving Turduckenen-duckenen Forget turducken... I'm stuffing my turkey with two ducks, stuffed with four hens, stuffed with eight quail eggs. Honestly, I do not recommend trying this yourself. So what's your favourite naming scheme: breadth-first, depth-first, or inordered binary tree traversal? Mathed Potatoes: http://youtu.be/F5RyVWI4Onk Green Bean Matherole: http://youtu.be/XwIs1nlDQ2I Borromean Onion Rings: http://youtu.be/4tsjCND2ZfM

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You may have of Turducken, a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken
Yeah, it's a cute idea, but mathematically uninspiring.
Much more interesting would some sort of fractal fowl arrangement. Say the turkey were stuffed with two ducks
And say each duck was stuffed with two hens. We'd get a Turduckduckenenenen, or Turduckenenduckenen
I'm not sure yet. Then each hen could be stuffed with two quails or whatever and by the time you get down to sparrows you
Have a whole flock of 'em in there. That sounds fun and practical, lets do it!
But being an extremely practical person who realizes that exponential quails will not fit in one turkey, I am using tiny unborn quails.
Eight of them inside four hens inside two ducks inside one turkey. This structure is much more interesting because birds belong in trees
Binary trees, that is. Obviously this is superior to old linear bird-stuffing paradime.
And while you're de-boning seven birds you'll have lots of time to consider the question of binary bird
Stuffing novenclature. How do you traverse this tree of syllabels? Unless you can say lots of words at once like
Turduckenail, you'll have to say the syllabells in a linear order.
You could go layer by layer, biggest birds first, like Turduckduckenenenenailailailailailailailail or you could
down through the layers like Turduckenailailenailailduckenailailenailail
The second one is certainly more complicated to say, but I like they way the structure of it suggests the structure of the hole.
And say we made two of these and put them in a goose and in the first scheme the new bird names get inserted into the name to get
Gooturturduckduckenenenenenenenenailailailailailailailailailailailailailailailail
Well, for the second, you start with goose and just repeat the old word to get
Gooturduckenailailenailailduckenailailenailailturduckenailailenailailduckenailailenailail
So it's nice that part of it stays the same. Of course those aren't the only possible naming schemes. Maybe you go left to right
On the tree. So this would be ailenailduckailenail. Ooh! Abacabba pattern! Ok, so in 1807
A guy roasted a Bustard(whatever that is)stuffed with a turkey stuffed with a goose, stuffed with a pheasant, chicken, duck,
Guinea fowl, teal, woodcock, partridge, plover, lapwing, quail, thresh, lark, bunting, and warbler to get a
Busturgoosentenduckenytealcockridgeerwingailusharktingbler
But say he had done this with the new exponential bird stuffing paradime.
I mean, you'd need over 100,000 birds to do it, but the world has a lot of birds in it, and if you can consistently say four syllables a second,
You could say the in only,like,nine hours. It might seem like a lot, but its really not, compared to if you
Used, say, just twice as many kinds of birds. Then you would need over 8.5 billion individual birds
And if you started naming it as soon as you learned to talk, and take breaks to sleep at night, you'd still probably die
Before you finished, so I can't say I recommend it, by hey! Maybe with advances in medicine it will become a more feasible goal.
Anyway, there it is; two quail eggs in each hen, two hens in each duck, two ducks in this turkey, if I can close it.
Eventually I had to go for sewing up the turkey most of the way with one duckenailailenailail, and then stuffing the other duckenailailenailail
In. Now you can arrange it nicely with the original legs and wings and stuffing to make it look perfectly natural. There!
Anyway, once you've got that, you're pretty much good to go as far as Thanksgiving is concerned.
You should already have your gelatinous cranberry cylinder, red spheres with butter prism, mathed potatoes with organic hyperbolic plane,
Green bean vector field with borromean onion rings on top, double-helix cut ham, Pi, Tau and so on, and now finally you've got your Turduckenailailenailailduckenailailenailail
Or ailenailduckailenailkeyailenailduckailenail
or Turduckduckenenenenailailailailailailailail...whatever. Each slice gives a different cross section of this binary
Bird. Here you can see a quail egg wrapped in the light meat of the hen wrapped in the darker meat of the duck wrapped in the light meat of the turkey.
Another cross-section shows two eggs, now you can sit dow, eat your mathematically inspired food and be thankful that
No matter how crazy people are, at least mathematics is always there for you, making sense, and truth, and beauty, and birds, lots of birds.

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