You won't believe some of the calls the Butterball hotline receives, odder than 911 calls.

This is as nuts as some of the wacky calls you hear about from 911 operators. The Butterball Hotline has published some of the best of calls.

• A mother returned home from work to find her husband thawing a frozen turkey in the bathtub while simultaneously washing up the kids. "The kids were like, 'The water's cold!' because, you know, it's a frozen turkey".

• A woman called the Talk-Line whispering her questions. When asked to speak up, the newlywed explained she was hiding in the closet from her mother-in-law, whom she was trying to impress. I get this, MIL's can be a pain in the stuffing.

• A young man hosting his first Thanksgiving called the Talk-Line while in a grocery store. A turkey expert stayed on the phone as he walked the aisle, advising him of all the items he'd need to buy. This isn't that weird.

• A landlord called panicked because his oven was too small to cook a turkey. He eventually was able to "rent" one from a tenant for $25. He thought he'd have to interrupt them every 10 minutes to baste it, but called the Talk-Line to learn that Butterball turkeys come pre-basted. We had to cook a turkey one year in an adjacent apartment's oven because ours was on the fritz and couldn't be repaired until after the holidays.

• A woman lost power one hour into cooking her turkey and called the Talk-Line. The hotline talked her through transferring her turkey to her gas grill to continue cooking. What accounted for the outage? The caller's neighbor had crashed into a power line while hang gliding.

One of the absolute best is thawing a turkey in a snowbank and then it snowed and it wasn't marked and they lost the bird in the bank. BTW now Butterball has an app.

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