I decided to switch this over to quoting hilarious posts that have been made over the years.
Why? Because I want to, that's why.
Anyway, that Hm.. thread had me laughing for ages, so here's another post from it, this time from the lovely Ethel.
There's no such thing as peacocks! They're imaginary, just like fairies, hobbits and Eskimos.
You're just like my grandmother (except younger, and not dead, and not related to me as far as I know.) So my grandmother was visiting us this one time (this was before she died) and Bev came into the yard. (We called the peacock Bev for some reason even though it was a male peacock, which is a redundancy because a female peacock would actually be a peahen, but anyway that's what we called her, I mean him - I don't remember why.) And my grandmother said, "Why, it's a turkey!" Because my grandmother grew up on a farm in Oklahoma and I guess she thought all birds shaped like that were turkeys even if they happened to be electric blue, which this one did because it was actually a peacock. Even if it didn't have long tail feathers. And Eskimos do too exist. My brother is married to a woman whose sister is married to an Eskimo, and I met him at their wedding (my brother's wedding, I mean, not the Eskimo's). His name was Ed (the Eskimo, not my brother) and sometimes people referred to him as Ed the Eskimo. Ed the Eskimo introduced himself to me as "the only Eskimo Freemason" which as far as I know is true. Next you'll be telling me there's no such thing as Freemasons!