Now those are proper free range chickens!
Posted by: TJ at January 8, 2008 11:47 PMI'm suddenly hungry.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 8, 2008 11:51 PMThey look so much like liberals to me.
Posted by: Real Conservative at January 8, 2008 11:53 PMTone it down. The last thing I need is to be hauled before an Avian Rights Board by Spurwing Plover.
Posted by: Kate at January 8, 2008 11:59 PMI can't believe I just spent 2 minutes and 45 seconds watching chickens. The whole time I was expecting some Pythonesque explosion, or at least a large cartoon foot.
Posted by: Zip at January 9, 2008 12:00 AMSometimes a chicken is just a chicken, Zip.
Posted by: Kate at January 9, 2008 12:07 AMWhy are all barnyard animals so Liberal... Always waiting around for the next handout. Face down in one trough or the other. Bleating helpless scavengers at the low end of the food chain...
Posted by: Zip at January 9, 2008 12:18 AMSpurwing wouldn't do that...would he?
Syncro
p.s. yummy
Posted by: syncrodox at January 9, 2008 12:19 AMOh man, I love slow motion set to good music. Yes!
Brilliant. Thanks Kate. What a species we are ;-)
Ah, Saskatchewan. No chickens were harmed during the production of this film. Since then, no guarantees.
Posted by: Drained Brain at January 9, 2008 12:24 AMNot only did I watch all 2 minutes and 45 seconds of it I loved it. Although I think Foghorn Leghorn and ole Biddy Hen were MIA.
Posted by: Joe at January 9, 2008 12:25 AMboth graceful AND delicious!
Posted by: Doug at January 9, 2008 12:34 AMWhile I don't wish go off "topic" here, there is, Joe, a great Foghorn Loghorn cartoon here (in which Mr. Leghorn utters the famous line: That dog's like taxes, he just don't know when to stop):
video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-1583470559367556235
Posted by: Vitruvius at January 9, 2008 12:39 AMWhy didn't the chickens cross the road?
Posted by: Doogie at January 9, 2008 12:47 AMAha! My favorite metaphysics question.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: To cross the road.
Vit
Q: Why is a chicken a chicken
A: It is what it is.
Syncro
Posted by: syncrodox at January 9, 2008 1:02 AMExactly, Sychrodox. These are all examples of metaphysical tautologies: "Why X? Because X". Why does existence exist? Because existance exists. I love tautologies, because by definition they aren't wrong.
How existence exists is of course another matter. How a chicken is a chicken is not the same as why a chicken is a chicken. Pope Benedict mentioned this in his Regensberg lecture when he noted:
"Modern scientific reason quite simply has to accept the rational structure of matter and the correspondence between our spirit and the prevailing rational structures of nature as a given, on which its methodology has to be based. Yet the question why this has to be so is a real question, and one which has to be remanded by the natural sciences to other modes and planes of thought: to philosophy and theology."
Why is a funny question, for unless you establish a because clause, you are stuck with infinite recursion ~ why why ~ and that's not pragmatically reasonable.
Posted by: Vitruvius at January 9, 2008 1:15 AMMakes me all warm and tingly, and damm hungry. Methinks I'll make a run to KFC and order a couple of buckets if original recipe and lotsa gravy!
Posted by: vince at January 9, 2008 1:23 AMBrings back lots of memories of growing up on a farm in Sask.
Posted by: Soccermom at January 9, 2008 1:34 AMVit
I concur. Why is a dead end. What and How are much more productive. Why seeks motivation...implies motivation and is indefensible.
What and how seek the roots of motivation, science and spirituality.
Syncro
Posted by: syncrodox at January 9, 2008 1:34 AMMetaphysical tautologies.
I just watched 2 hours of the Four Horseman (Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens)
http://richarddawkins.net/
I found their discussions to be worth my time spent.
Even if you don't agree with them it is informative.
Sorry
I realize that was way off topic.
I blame Vitruvius for distracting me with the why is a chicken.
Topic? What topic? It's a music synchronized video of chickens running
around in slow motion. What are we supposed to talk about, the NHL?
Besides, that's nothing, check out this video of a rabbit chasing
a snake up a tree ~ chickens, feh ~ this is ontological!
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-652270167581287919
(Yes, I'm not being serious.)
Posted by: Vitruvius at January 9, 2008 1:57 AMDo chickens have races?
Posted by: ural at January 9, 2008 2:05 AMWell, Ural, chickens do have a place in the clubhouse turn.
Or is it a place in the clubhouse sandwhich? I'm so confused.
Yes, sorry, I meant which sandwich. Hmm, I'm not so sure whether or not Kate wants us to execute a classic parody of a blog comments thread here or not, so I'm loath to do so, yet I must say that we do now have all the chickens set up in a row to do so. Still, best not to, thus instead I wish y'all a good evening, I'll be here all week, don't forget to tip you waitress on the way out, and of course, thanks to our gracious hostess, Kate.
Later tonight on the SDA Animal Kingdom, you'll find this Brittanica video of a Mongoose attacking a Cobra:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3BfL7X1uU8
Posted by: Vitruvius at January 9, 2008 2:29 AMI think Vitruvius is saying that the answer to, why is a chicken, is proven by the fact that we can conceive of the question.
Vit
Kate will and does speak when required. Parody is as parody does. Go first,go hard and go fast.
That's life and death.
Syncro
p.s. It's all good fun till someone loses an eye.
Posted by: syncrodox at January 9, 2008 2:50 AMDouq
I beg to differ.
I think it's because we need a samwich.
Syncro
Posted by: syncrodox at January 9, 2008 2:59 AMAye. Or a chicken:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0EqMARJIg
Posted by: Vitruvius at January 9, 2008 2:59 AMVit
That's gonna make a piss poor samwich...you win;)
Syncro
Posted by: syncrodox at January 9, 2008 3:09 AMWow! Tiny perfect dinosaurs. And they perform for chicken feed. It doesn't get any better than this.
Posted by: gordinkneehill at January 9, 2008 4:04 AMFunny. Reminds me of a post I did recently which involved a chicken and Stephane Dion.
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2007/11/liberal-leader-stephane-dion-as-little.html
Posted by: The Canadian Sentinel at January 9, 2008 5:26 AMPlease people, go smuggle dawn past the roosters, we need some sleep.
Posted by: Liz J at January 9, 2008 8:16 AMLiz J
Many things have been smuggled....dawn isn't worth it....
Good morning.
Syncro
Posted by: syncrodox at January 9, 2008 8:40 AMBesides the usual sea of smut, I can't help but be amazed at the talent and creativity that the internet has helped develop. Sites like ifilm, utube and the like have litterally tons of stuff from people who otherwise wouldn't have had a venue to show their talents. Who knows how many future Spielbergs and Lucas' are out there, showing their creativity on utube or google video.
BTW, Y'all gotta come on down south if you KFC fans think that chicken is good. There ain't nothin' finer than real southern fried chicken (to harden the arteries).
Posted by: Texas Canuck at January 9, 2008 8:45 AMLooks to me that at least one or two of those chickens are taking performance enhancing drugs. Has anyone collected urine samples?
Posted by: a different Bob at January 9, 2008 8:50 AMWhy did the Canadian cross the road?
To get to the middle.
Why did the Liberal cross the road?
Brown envelopes...of course.
Syncro
Poulty in motion ....
Posted by: Voidraithe at January 9, 2008 9:29 AMI like the way they jumped for the corn. Reminded me of Smilin' Jack jumping for the Taliban.
Posted by: The Phantom at January 9, 2008 10:15 AMHas the maker of this "art" made a sales pitch to the national gallery in Ottawa?? What say you?...for a mere million point five loonies we can have this work of art (mere chickenfeed) and the public can view it displayed next to the million dollar stripes (voice of fire) we had previously purchased...hell who needs MRI machines for a decaying health system when we can have the joy of art!!
Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at January 9, 2008 10:33 AMKate, it would appear that you could post a video of paint drying and still illicit dozens of comments. Kudos on attaining iconic status.
Posted by: INP at January 9, 2008 11:06 AMWL Mackenzie Redux,
It is indeed the kind of "art" liberals like to spend our tax money on, but this Chickens of Fire would probably be rejected because at the end there is this little non-progressive "faux-pas",
nonni the white chicken
( sarcasm )
Posted by: Friend of USA at January 9, 2008 11:42 AMI think they're Wafflers the way they waddle side to side and they are quite fat. More signs they're Liberal Chickens and probably not fit for consumption.
Posted by: Liz J at January 9, 2008 1:05 PMJust think how fast Peggy could run if she wasn't so fat.....oh, I guess that is how she got so fat....getting to the feed first.
Posted by: Joanne at January 9, 2008 1:31 PMSometimes we need to clear our heads of politics...chickens will do...pretty cute;)
Watching a prize-winning, working quarter horse always works for me.
Enjoy: Go Bob's Hickory Rio!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7GyxQVboto&feature=related
Posted by: BB at January 9, 2008 1:48 PMINP, almost full circle then.
Kate posted this in response to Protein Wisdom's infamous dog whistle post.
Kate hasn't quite got 40 comments for posting nothing yet. Time will tell. :)
Cheers,
lance
Just what I needed! I'm still chuckling...or would that be cluckling!
Posted by: JBS at January 9, 2008 2:28 PMHAHAHAHA
First thing I thought of was "I gotta send this link to my buddies Tim and Fred.
They're ex-Royal Canadian Regiment.
[Asbestos underwear/on]
Posted by: Nightmare at January 9, 2008 3:51 PMand this chicken classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylItNtfNzOE&feature=related
Posted by: cal2 at January 9, 2008 4:31 PMShooot, I thought it said "Chickens on Fire" -- I'm salavating and hungry -- dammit!
Oh well, maybe I'll get Chicken tomorrow...
Posted by: Orlin at January 9, 2008 5:31 PMHa ha.
Exercising chickens, I'm against it. Toughens them prematurely and unproductively.
This, as a roaster brines.
Posted by: Bour3 at January 9, 2008 5:44 PMFaster than a speeding pullet?
Posted by: Paul A. at January 9, 2008 7:01 PMIn case anyone is interested the real reason the chicken crossed the road is to show that dead rodent on Kate's masthead that crossing the road is possible.
By the way chickens have races, there is the Leghorn, the Rhode Island Red, the Plymoth Rock, the Bantam...
Posted by: Joe at January 9, 2008 7:30 PM...thank God for fast forwarding...
Posted by: tomax7 at January 9, 2008 11:33 PMNightmare
It wasn't a chicken, originally.
Cheers
Posted by: J.M. Heinrichs at January 10, 2008 2:51 AMdo the chickens have talons?
Posted by: Brad at January 11, 2008 1:22 AM