Comments on: Chickens and US politics http://www.samizdata.net/2008/12/chickens-and-us/ A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective Fri, 24 May 2013 05:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nuke Gray! http://www.samizdata.net/2008/12/chickens-and-us/#comment-179980 Nuke Gray! Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:38:23 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=12095#comment-179980 How did the Chechen freedom fighter cross the road?
SLOWLY- he’s not russian (rushing/Russian get it?)

]]> By: Kim du Toit http://www.samizdata.net/2008/12/chickens-and-us/#comment-179979 Kim du Toit Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:59:45 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=12095#comment-179979

“And so the ever independent du Toit calls chairs ‘blops’, seagulls ‘woogs’ and pigs ‘gacks’, to hell with what anyone else calls them.”

Mr. De Havilland,

The proper term for seagulls is “wooges”, as any fule kno.

]]> By: tdh http://www.samizdata.net/2008/12/chickens-and-us/#comment-179978 tdh Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:21:23 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=12095#comment-179978 If you want to play chicken with the Russian language, there are lots of samizdat- possibilities. There’s the -anin/-an suffix typically used for nationalities; plural samizdatan would line up with a latinate singular both in appearance and in meaning. There are possessive adjectives that also show up substantively in surnames (-ov/-ovy, -in/-iny). There are diminutives and augmentatives of various flavors, from hypocoristic to disparaging. There are scads of adjectival forms that could be used substantively. There are acronyms and stump compounds; do not try this latter for “Samizdata Writer.”

So, why did that chickenka (-YAWN-kuh) cross the road? It wanted to show some bipartisan initiative by laying the blame on the innocent, carrying water for the guilty, and giving the incompetent wings.

ANDREW JACKSON: Don’t shoot until you see the whites of its eggs.

TEDDY ROOSEVELT: Take the hill on the other side!

DWIGHT EISENHOWER: It was D-day, H-hour, and it strove mightily to take back the military-industrial complex.

RICHARD NIXON: The road was straight, so the chicken crossed it while announcing that there was not a crook in the road.

BTW, when Ron Paul was first elected, IIRC his campaign showed a TV commercial with a chicken running back and forth (across a road?) , unable to make up its mind.

]]> By: McC http://www.samizdata.net/2008/12/chickens-and-us/#comment-179977 McC Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:02:27 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=12095#comment-179977 Dr. Chiyome Fukino: I have personally seen and verified that the Hawai’i State Department of Health has a record for the chicken and the road. State law (Hawai’i Revised Statutes §338-18) prohibits the release of road crossing documents to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record

]]> By: Apostrophe http://www.samizdata.net/2008/12/chickens-and-us/#comment-179976 Apostrophe Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:22:37 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=12095#comment-179976 Groucho Marx: Cross the road on a chicken and you’ll find out why a duck!

Emo Philips: To lay it on the line….

]]> By: Jim C. http://www.samizdata.net/2008/12/chickens-and-us/#comment-179975 Jim C. Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:22:14 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=12095#comment-179975 KEANU REEVES: The chicken’s crossing the road. Whoa!

ANDREW SULLIVAN: Here’s a photo taken of the chicken before she crossed the road. She wasn’t ready to lay an egg. But look at this photo of the same chicken on the other side with an egg. The egg couldn’t possibly be the chicken’s. We need DNA evidence to close the matter.

]]> By: Alan K. Henderson http://www.samizdata.net/2008/12/chickens-and-us/#comment-179974 Alan K. Henderson Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:07:16 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=12095#comment-179974 DAILY KOS: The chicken was crossing the road on orders from Karl Rove.

KARL ROVE: Shhh!

]]> By: Nuke Gray! http://www.samizdata.net/2008/12/chickens-and-us/#comment-179973 Nuke Gray! Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:02:54 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=12095#comment-179973 Why did the psychic chicken NOT cross the road?
It was already in touch with the OTHER SIDE!

]]> By: JohnMc http://www.samizdata.net/2008/12/chickens-and-us/#comment-179972 JohnMc Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:52:42 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=12095#comment-179972 Dwight Eisenhower: I have ascertained that the chicken crossed the road too quickly. I therefore am signing the Defense Highways Act to slow the chicken down.

Tom Tancredo:There are a lot of issues beyond chickens that I want to deal with

]]> By: Thomas Hazlewood http://www.samizdata.net/2008/12/chickens-and-us/#comment-179971 Thomas Hazlewood Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:05:55 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=12095#comment-179971 Al Bundy- The chicken that crossed the road? Oh, You mean Marcy…….

The road- Ridiculous! This is a busiest chicken thoroughfare in Chicago. Nobody crosses El Capon.

]]> By: allswell http://www.samizdata.net/2008/12/chickens-and-us/#comment-179970 allswell Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:20:16 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=12095#comment-179970 The real Sara Palin: I don’t know why the chicken crossed the road but when it did it walked right into my crosshairs and that’s why we’re having Fried chicken for dinner tonight.

]]> By: Steve P http://www.samizdata.net/2008/12/chickens-and-us/#comment-179969 Steve P Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:50:27 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=12095#comment-179969 OZZY OSBOURNE: Chickens?? I’m Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fookin’ Darkness! I bite the heads off bats, not fookin’ chickens…Sharronnnnnnnn!!

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