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|  Posted - 09/23/2006 :  15:09:57     
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           	| YO:  Just THIS In... 
 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Four-Legged-Chicken.html
 
 OY Sez:  I wonder if Somerset is near a nuclear reactor. They'd better call in Mulder and Scully to check this out!
 
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 If dogs run free
 Then what must be,
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 The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
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 "The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
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 "The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
 --Oscar Wilde
 
 "We have Art in order not to die of life."
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 "I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
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|  Posted - 09/23/2006 :  15:23:03   [Permalink]       
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| Agents from KFC will probably make an offer to buy the bird. They'll be after the genetic code in order to produce more drumsticks.  |  
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|  Posted - 09/23/2006 :  18:19:14   [Permalink]     
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| I found another article, with images. 
 
  Here's a closeup of Henrietta
 being held by Ashley. The chicken
 is healthy despite its deformity.
 
 
 Alas, the rear set of legs is not functional, but are merely dragged behind her.  No information was provided as to whether the hen has wings also.  I am left to guess that it does have wings, making Henrietta a six-limbed creature.
 
 
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| “Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.”  —HalfMooner
 Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/23/2006  18:56:22 |  
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|  Posted - 09/23/2006 :  19:42:36   [Permalink]     
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| It makes me cluck in disapproval when otherwise intelligent skeptics merely cackle and post cold, stale chicken jokes about Henrietta.  Though there is only a poultry amount of information so far available about this bird, clearly the matter should be addressed seriously by the free-ranging minds here.  Are we now so intellectually chicken that we won't take time to sit for a moment to incubate some scientific thoughts? 
 And, when will we see Henrietta trotted out by some Creationist museum as some kind of chicken-shit disproof of Darwin?
 
 Why did Henrietta cross the road?  To escape the cruel laughter of skeptics!
 
 
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|  Posted - 09/23/2006 :  22:07:44   [Permalink]     
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| YO:  Here I'm trying to make a statement about radioactivity and the danger it poses to genetic make up, and all I get is a brood of chicken-pluckin' comedians. 
 But I think we should try to keep it down so Colonel Sanders doesn't try to re-create the greasy chicken biz.
 
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| "The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
 --John Kenneth Galbraith
 
 If dogs run free
 Then what must be,
 Must be...
 And that is all
 --Bob Dylan
 
 The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
 --me
 
 "The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
 --J. Paul Getty
 
 "The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
 --Oscar Wilde
 
 "We have Art in order not to die of life."
 --Albert Camus
 
 "I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
 --Albert Camus
 
 "Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
 --Oscar Wilde
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|  Posted - 09/24/2006 :  00:03:33   [Permalink]       
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|  Hmmmm…I wonder, maybe KFC will be more open to your advice and take your words to heart folks. In light of these genetic enhancements for poultry, maybe they'll be promoting healthier meals, with a broader, international appeal.
 KFC might see the big international implications of this four-legged birdie and introduce a new teriyaki four-legged jumbo plate!
 On second thought, that's too much enhancement. Here's a more appetizing  bowl o'legs.
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|  Posted - 09/24/2006 :  02:24:10   [Permalink]     
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| Look closely at the staining around the second set of legs..... 
 That bird is going to end up on display in a casino!
 
 
  
 
  
 
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|  Posted - 09/24/2006 :  06:45:39   [Permalink]     
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| Strange that the first mention of it is a 4-legged full-grown chicken......  And not a chick..... 
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|  Posted - 09/24/2006 :  19:02:45   [Permalink]     
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| Four wings would be better. The chicken could fly twice!  
 And no, this is not a hijack attempt..... or is it?
  
 
  
 
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 "If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
 
 
 "The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
 
 Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
 
 and Crypto-Communist!
   
 
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|  Posted - 09/25/2006 :  00:44:24   [Permalink]     
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| quote:New York is home to six commercial nuclear reactorsOriginally posted by Orwellingly Yurz
 
 YO:  Here I'm trying to make a statement about radioactivity and the danger it poses to genetic make up, and all I get is a brood of chicken-pluckin' comedians.
 
 But I think we should try to keep it down so Colonel Sanders doesn't try to re-create the greasy chicken biz.
 
 OY Sez:  Good Night and Good Cluck!
 
 
 quote:Somerset, NY is just north of Buffalo.... located in Oswego, Ontario and Buchanan; two academic research reactors based at Cornell University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; two sites associated with the Naval Reactors program in West Milton and Schenectady; and the only commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing facility to ever operate in the United States - the West Valley Demonstration Project, located about 35 miles south of Buffalo.
 
 
 
 
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