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Chicken mania

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If you're feeling cooped up, a variety of chickens...

This issue's Humour article is about chickens so cluck'n in with these.

Chicken eggs, a.k.a. pre-chicken chicken
Chicken as a little peeper
Early chicken life
Flock of chickens
Bantam rooster
Asian rooster
Chickens drinking
Chicken lithograph
Chicken stamp, Faroe Islands
Roast chicken, destination dinner table

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Why did the chicken cross the road? To read the Signpost on the other side! Then she came upon the final image of the semi-cremated corpse, took the red pill, and awoke to reality. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:10, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You're pretty funny Randy Kryn. So what dipping sauce do you like to order with your chicken-Mcnuggets? Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 13:36, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The hot sauce from back in the day. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:02, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

So really, what goes thru your head when someone yells at you, →"C H I C K E N !"? Paine Ellsworth ^put'r there 15:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think it means that they think you are afraid? Do we have an article yet on this English idiom? Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 13:36, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Barbara (WVS), it could mean they think you are afraid, although it depends on the context. In a restaurant it may mean that supper's ready, and some people have taken "Chicken" as a nickname. Also, it might just be someone pushing your buttons. If someone yells "Chicken" at you, it might upset you, which is exactly what the manipulating button pusher is trying to do – to upset you. As for related articles, there are Chicken (coward) and Chickenshit, and probably more articles if one looks hard enough, such as Chicken Joke (note the "Duck Joke" on that page). Be well. Paine Ellsworth ^put'r there 13:23, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nice comment, Paine Ellsworth. I didn't find Yellow stripe down the back, either. Perhaps we need an Idiom-pedia. I know English has uncountable idioms and we have a multitude of them here in Pittsburgh. Guess what "Kennywood's open" means here. There is an amusement park here called Kennywood, but the idiom really isn't really about the park. Also in Haitian kreyol there aren't idioms, there are proverbs that folks quote as idioms. A language learner like myself has difficulty even distinguishing idioms from non-idioms and a reference work on idioms might be helpful.

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