What Would Batman Do?

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us (insert two emoticons) here at What Would Batman Do?  For our international and mind-bogglingly ignorant readers, Thanksgiving is the day all Americans join together to celebrate the brief peace early European settlers had with Native Americans before they slaughtered and raped their woman and children, stole their land, and purposefully infected them with smallpox and drug addictions.

But enough about that.  Did you know Thanksgiving is also closely associated with the nationwide genocide of turkeys?  And did you know that on this day of opulent feasting, there is not a turkey in Batman, but actually a Batman in Turkey?  It’s true.  Take a look:

Now, my Turkish is a little rusty, but this map basically says that Batman lies on the Batman River and is the capital of Batman Province (which is in the Kurdish southeast region of Turkey — as if you didn’t know).

Batman’s biggest claim to fame is oil and the fact that the mayor of Batman, Hüseyin Kalkan, is currently trying to sue Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for stealing their name (insert emoticon with milk snorting out nose).  Kalkan also blames The Dark Knight for “a number of unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate on the psychological impact that the film’s success has had on the city’s inhabitants.”

And now you have something to talk about to your recently remarried aunt from Tucson.

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