Your daddy ' s step mom is your grandma right ? <| sep |> Love me some Gourds . Some great shows . <| sep |> mine is at step 5 on your list , so you ' re doing better than me lol <| sep |> Is that where your username name comes from ? <| sep |> Just gotta try it this is much more interactive game than audio shield . full 360 plus dodging is fun . this took over as my favorite rhythm game over soundboxing and audioshield <| sep |> It really all comes back to a few presidents that looked their dinner in the eye and felt bad for the bird . Over 150 years or so it eventually caught on . Presidents have been pardoning turkeys continuously since Reagan in the 80 s . The first president on record pardoning a turkey was Lincoln , but it was a Christmas turkey that his son had taken a liking to . President John F . Kennedy was the first to pardon a Thanksgiving turkey . In 1963 , despite a sign hanging around the turkey ' s neck that read , Good eating , Mr . President , Kennedy sent the bird back to the farm . Richard Nixon also gave the birds a reprieve , sending his turkeys to a nearby petting zoo . Ronald Reagan was the first to use the word pardon when he was talking turkey in 1987 . The turkey pardoning became formalized in 1989 , with President George H . W . Bush .