As far as I can tell it's because you and someone else break it together and whoever breaks off the bigger piece gets to make a wish.
the suspension is called this because the part atatched to the chasis is called your wishbone, wich holds in place your hub, wich in turn holds in your suspension there for it is called a wishbone suspension
Breaking the turkeyâ??s wishbone is a common custom in America and Europe. A wishbone is actually two fused clavicle bones.
WishboneThe forked furcula bone which lies between the breast and neck of a chicken, or other fowl, is popularly called the wishbone.
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Darrell Royal called his new 1968 offense a "wishbone" offense after it was first named the "pulleybone" offense by a reporterIt was Emory Bellard, an assistant of Darrell Royal who created the "Wishbone" and a sportswriter named Mickey Herskowitz gave it the name in 1968.
Wishbone Ash was created in 1969.
Wishbone - 1995 Viva Wishbone 1-35 was released on: USA: 1996 Japan: 12 December 1998
The wishbone offense got its name because of the way it looks when diagrammed. In the wishbone offense the backfield is shaped like an inverted Y (or a "wishbone from a turkey", get it? ) : TE/WR_____LT LG C RG RT______TE/WR ______________QB ______________FB ___________RB_____RB (please forgive the lines, I didnt know how else to space the positions apart. Tab wouldn't work.)
In the show he was called Wishbone, but I don't know his real name
The longer side of the wishbone get's the wish.
Wishbone Four was created on 1973-05-11.
The Best of Wishbone Ash was created in 1981.