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Category: frivolous nonsense
Posted on: June 17, 2008 6:18 PM, by Darren Naish
Shame, shame, shame, oh shame on me. I saw the following on John Conway's Philosophica Neopalaeontographica and have become so obsessed with it that, here I am, stealing it. It's not, even, really about tetrapods...
... and the accompanying paper (available as a free pdf) is available here. As John says, the word chicken will never seem the same again. Hang around a bit longer, phorusrhacids next... again...
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The paper, is it peer reviewed?
Posted by: Man of the sloth | June 17, 2008 7:08 PM
Chicken chicken chicken Chicken chicken chickens? Chicken chicken "chicken" chicken. Chicken! Chicken chicken chicken. C. chicken chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chicken chicken Chickens Chicken. ...Chicken?
Posted by: Zach Miller | June 17, 2008 7:53 PM
nice flow charts!
Posted by: onleyone | June 17, 2008 8:29 PM
Well, as we used to say back in the early days of Chomskyan generative grammar (bliss was it to be alive in that dawn, and to be young was very heaven!),
"Oysters oysters oysters eat eat eat."
Posted by: Allen Hazen | June 17, 2008 8:56 PM
Since when have chickens not been tetrapods?
Posted by: John S. Wilkins | June 17, 2008 9:37 PM
John: You're new here, aren't you? Chickens have been tetrapods only since zoologists lost their counting skills.
Posted by: Nathan Myers | June 17, 2008 9:51 PM
ZOMGZ =gasp= ROFL =coff= MAO =snort= I can't =wheeze= stand it! Gimme some =choke= oxygen!
=turns blue, passes out=
She's not breathing! I can't find a pulse! Somebody call 911!
=CPR=
.......must.... not..... go...... towards..... the........ chicken....
=more CPR=
I'm still not getting a pulse! Gimme the paddles! CLEAR!
=ZAP=
noooo....... must.... not..... go...... towards..... the........ fried..... chicken....
Again! Crank it up to 300! CLEAR!
=ZAP=
Oh hi, can I have a side of mashed potatoes and gravy and some cole slaw with that? Oh, and make that chicken extra crispy.
I've seen the paper, but never heard the presentation. How did he do that with a straight face? I loved the comment from the guy in the audience, ca.2:30 - "What about the eggs?"
Posted by: themadlolscientist | June 18, 2008 12:20 AM
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom.
Posted by: Dave Godfrey | June 18, 2008 8:16 AM
beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver beaver
(very rude where I come from).
Posted by: dlactin | June 18, 2008 8:28 AM
snake a snake, oh it's a snake
Posted by: Darren Naish | June 18, 2008 8:31 AM
Can't watch the video because I'm at work. Is this anything like "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo."?
Either way, the word "chicken" has lost all meaning for me.
Posted by: sublunary | June 18, 2008 9:06 AM
Jenny absolutely insists that it's "snake, snake, african snake". She is so wrong.
Posted by: John Conway | June 18, 2008 9:34 AM
Tell Jenny she's wrong, but we still love her. The proof.
Posted by: Darren Naish | June 18, 2008 9:48 AM
Oh, great: my SVP talk is now scooped!! Better withdraw it...
Posted by: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. | June 18, 2008 1:08 PM
Funding well spent!
BTW badgers is really found here in all its true flashy glory:
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers/
Posted by: Neil | June 18, 2008 1:46 PM