62 Replies to “Chickens Of Fire”

  6. I 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.

  8. Why 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…

  12. Not 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.

  14. While 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

  18. Exactly, 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.

  19. Makes 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!

  21. Vit
    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

  22. Metaphysical 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.

  23. Sorry
    I realize that was way off topic.
    I blame Vitruvius for distracting me with the why is a chicken.

  24. 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.)

  29. 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:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3BfL7X1uU8

  30. I think Vitruvius is saying that the answer to, why is a chicken, is proven by the fact that we can conceive of the question.

  31. 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.

  35. Wow! Tiny perfect dinosaurs. And they perform for chicken feed. It doesn’t get any better than this.

  40. Besides 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).

  41. Looks to me that at least one or two of those chickens are taking performance enhancing drugs. Has anyone collected urine samples?

  46. Has 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!!

  47. Kate, it would appear that you could post a video of paint drying and still illicit dozens of comments. Kudos on attaining iconic status.

  48. WL 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 )

  49. I 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.

  50. Just 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.

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