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I feel I need to say something about this, but I don't know what.
Posted by: Balanchine | April 16, 2005 at 02:11 PM
I believe the word you're looking for is: First!
Posted by: Sondra | April 16, 2005 at 02:14 PM
Chicken peritonitis is a terrible thing for a chicken to have to endure, that's for sure.
Posted by: D'Artagnan | April 16, 2005 at 02:26 PM
I think Elvis "died" of something like that.
Posted by: Brainy Jello | April 16, 2005 at 02:34 PM
Human peritonitis wouldn't be too much of a picnic either ... it's a pretty fowl disease ...
(Ducks!)
Posted by: U.O | April 16, 2005 at 02:45 PM
makes you wonder why they didn't just go ahead and spay her. then there'd be no further problem and doris could live a long chicken life.
Posted by: sj | April 16, 2005 at 02:47 PM
I think it's pretty frickin' annoying that my browser has a bunch of advertisements superimposed over the story so that I can't even read it. WTF is that about?
Posted by: Doc | April 16, 2005 at 02:51 PM
Chicken Peritonitis? Isn't that a menu item at Grandy's? Maybe it's Luby's....
Posted by: qetzal | April 16, 2005 at 02:55 PM
Chickens in Yorkshire are finding
It hard to get cured of egg binding
You can quickly arrange
For the cost of some change
A new 'cluck' that needs no rewinding!
Posted by: insomniac | April 16, 2005 at 03:02 PM
So...she had a backup of eggs...she needed an enema to clear the blockage...an egg enema...an eggnema?
It's an enigma.
Posted by: Aunt Nancy | April 16, 2005 at 04:24 PM
Nice wordplay, Aunt Nancy. (any relation to Uncle O?)
I hate people who have lots of money, but what I I hate even more is people who throw their cash around on stupid things like this. It would be the ultimate irony of Doris keeled over tomorrow.
Posted by: Josh | April 16, 2005 at 05:12 PM
Chicken stuffed with egg......
*jots down new recipe idea*
Posted by: Graz | April 16, 2005 at 05:25 PM
Yeah, when they took Doris to the vet, she was in eggstremely bad condition ...
Josh --
Only in the avuncular-enaticular sphere of terminology ... I think ...
Nancy? Your input here would clarify the question/answer for Josh ... not that I know of ... but then ... stranger things have happened ... even to moi ownself ...
Posted by: U.O | April 16, 2005 at 05:26 PM
Hmmm...Tastes like chicken
Posted by: Slyfox | April 16, 2005 at 07:17 PM
Eggs back up? I sense an exploding chicken story coming on.
Okay, that wasn't funny.
Well, not VERY funny.
Yes it was.
[slinks off in self disgust]
Posted by: AlanBoss | April 16, 2005 at 07:56 PM
[slinks back]
Speaking of ovedrboard surgery....
I had a woman that worked for me who once called to tell me she wouldn't be in because she had to take her rabbit in for surgery. I would have thought that it was the worst excuse for skipping work ever, except that she really was the sort that would spend $200 to save a $12 rabbit.
Posted by: AlanBoss | April 16, 2005 at 08:01 PM
sheesh. there's some cold hearted people out here. i wouldnt have a pet chicken, but hey, if they have the money, so what. doesnt seem like they got shelled for too much to help out the chicken....
Posted by: queensbee | April 17, 2005 at 03:36 AM
*sniff, sniff*
Smells like chicken...
Tastes like chicken...
MUST be Doris!
Posted by: kibby F5� | April 17, 2005 at 04:24 AM
All this talk has reminded me of a couple of old threads ... not Dave's ... mine ... from long ago ...
Did you ever think that maybe a hen is just ... an egg's way of ... getting another egg ...?
Then, it wasn't too big a leap to the "sheepherder special" item on the menu ...
But the UPC site ... "Thinking like a chicken" ... ???????
Peck, Peck, Peck ... Cluuuuccck, cluuuuuuck ... peck, peck, peck ...
Posted by: U.O | April 17, 2005 at 06:23 AM
what an eggshellent story!
Posted by: insomniac | April 17, 2005 at 07:30 AM
Yeah, it deserves a standing ovation ...
Posted by: U.O | April 17, 2005 at 08:38 AM
Yeah, I'd forgotten about him ... he doesn't have any new routines tho ... SOSO ...
Posted by: U.O | April 17, 2005 at 10:58 AM
UPC rocks!!!
Posted by: aletha | April 17, 2005 at 11:56 AM
... chickens. seriously. what is it with chickens lately? they're smelly birds, for pete's sake!
not one to begrudge anyone their beloved pet, i still have to say that given the option between shelling out (pun intended) money to fix a broken chicken and getting a new chicken....i'd get a new freakin' chicken.
wait..there's an internation respect for chickens day? -sighs- -shakes head sadly- proof, ladies and gents, that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe: they avoid us like the plague.
Posted by: Madness | April 17, 2005 at 12:41 PM
i have no idea whats going on but im commenting anyway because im a retard who likes to type...how are you guys! i havent seen you for so long! gosh Madness, it's nice to know that you're still alive! i thought you died choking on that chikens head...
Posted by: RakuDa | April 17, 2005 at 02:54 PM
I had a pet groundhog with a bowel impaction once. I had no $$$ so, after many days, lots of surgical gloves, and several tubes of Preparation H the bloating and hemmorhoids disappeared. Unfortunately so did Hawgy Dawgy. (ran off with some groundhussy from two ranches up the hollar)
Posted by: St. Ables | April 17, 2005 at 04:43 PM
I had a pet groundhog with a bowel impaction once. I had no $$$ so, after many days, lots of surgical gloves, and several tubes of Preparation H the bloating and hemmorhoids disappeared. Unfortunately so did Hawgy Dawgy. (ran off with some groundhussy from two ranches up the hollar)
Posted by: St. Ables | April 17, 2005 at 04:45 PM
Dartful....yes, chickens lay very well without a rooster around. All they're doing is ovulating. You only want the rooster if you want the eggs fertilized for breeding.
I used to think chickens were a lame thing to have around, but my son talked me into building a coop and we now have a small flock in the back yard. Yes, we eat (and sell) the eggs, but the best thing is they actually have distinct personalities. You've just gotta be open minded.
Posted by: Reigh | April 19, 2005 at 12:01 PM
Oh god. The CHICKENS have personalities. Not the eggs. I don't think.
Posted by: Reigh | April 19, 2005 at 12:24 PM
Oh god. The CHICKENS have personalities. Not the eggs. I don't think....
Posted by: Reigh | April 19, 2005 at 12:24 PM
Oh god. The CHICKENS have personalities. Not the eggs.
sigh.
Posted by: Reigh | April 19, 2005 at 12:24 PM
note to self: you CANNOT back up once you've hit "post!"
Posted by: Reigh | April 19, 2005 at 12:28 PM
testing why we see so many double posts
Posted by: MM | April 22, 2005 at 06:50 AM