How to deep fry a Thanksgiving turkey

(THIS IS NOT A RECIPE, DON'T TRY THIS UNLESS YOU READ UP ABOUT IT ELSEWHERE FIRST.) Well, we survived. We deep-fried the Thanksgiving turkey yesterday and everyone survived (well, not everyone). Mom made a second turkey in the oven, just in case. It turned out great. One of the juiciest, tastiest turkeys of my life. My brother-in-law, who did the officiating, says they injected the meat with something before cooking, I don't recall what now, but other than that - and these are not the exact recipe, so read up on this before you try it at home, kids - you heat the oil to 365 or so, dip the bird in slowly, bit by bit, dunking and raising it, so as not to have the entire thing boil over at once, then finally you dunk the entire thing and let it cook for, I think, 2 to 3 minutes a pound. Our turkey was around 12.5 pounds (they tell you not to cook anything bigger than 15 pounds), so we cooked it for 45 minutes. It gets super dark, and was simply wonderful. Bro-in-law went out and bought an entire turkey-frying contraption that connects to your fuel tank from a gas bbq. Here's a video of the entire process. And oh yeah, when we were almost done, we heard a very strange, loud, growing sound coming from the south. Suddenly we looked overhead and there was a flock, or several flocks, of geese flying in circles. Was very strange. After a few minutes, they were joined by a fourth flock from the south and then they all moved on together. They were apparently waiting for the other flock to join them. Amazing. Didn't stop us from frying up one of their brethren, but it was still pretty cool.