Well, we've received a large number of anonymous e-mails from chickens (and several from turkeys) accusing the proprietors of this blog of being anti-fowl or 'chickenism'.
Accusations like that are incredibly hurtful!
We thoroughly enjoy chicken. (Especially when accompanied by their neighbour 'stuffing' and their close friend 'the side order of mashed potatoes and gravy'.)
However our detractors may have a point. While there are some truly bad chickens out there... there are also large numbers of exceptinally tasty err... good chickens. Those who would give you the feathers off their backs. So, to clear our proud name of the detestable 'anti-chicken' label, we've decided to make a list of some of the many good chickens we have come to know and love.
Chicken Little
- was a brave chicken who led many of his friends to their untimely deaths at the hands of the notorious Foxy Loxy. Chicken Little had courage. The courage to publicly stand up for his convictions (as misguided as they later proved to be).
Foghorn Leghorn
- was a legendary actor. Yet he never received one Oscar nomination due to the discrimination against chickens that was prevalent in the Hollywood of his day.Yet this foul play did not deter him. He plyed his craft with complete professionalism and to the utmost of his abiltiy with nary a complaint. Today Mr. Leghorn is regarded as a comic genius whose body of work has stood the test of time. In fact he is more popular today then he ever was before.
Big Bird
- his stand against the Viet Nam war landed him in jail three different times during the late 1960's. Upon his last release, and finding that his hen had left him for Aloysius Snuffleupagus (whom he later worked with), Big Bird moved to New York City and settled in a nest in an alley on Sesame Street. Where he turned his pacifist views into a television show of the same name. Sesame Street. Today Mr. Bird is a well known anti-war advocate and philanthropist and his eldest son (Larry) is a well known basketball player.
The San Diego Chicken
- as a flamboyant youngster he was openly mocked for his outrageous dress. Yet this did not deter him. He gained a large measure of fame working for the San Diego Padres (baseball) and, upon his retirement, opened a fashion design store. Today the San Diego Chicken is considered to be a leading avant avant-garde designer and runs the world's largest clothing empire that caters exclusively to chickens and other fowl.
These are just a few of the many chickens that other chickens should aspire to.
If I were counted among chicken-kind, God willing, perhaps I could aspire to such lofty heights.
But, alas, I was born lacking the crucial DNA that excludes me from such.
But to those of you who do have the appropriate DNA...
Cock-a-doodle get to work.
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