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Let me see… a choice between intelligent life or some feather-brained idiot wandering around without a clue?

Yep, that’s right. it had to be the former. I watched the chickens!

Greg Gutfeld and the crew were ripping Obama a new one on this last night. Even the Libs on the panel were saying “WTF was he thinking?!”

Who here is not politically inclined? Anyone?!

It was worth waiting for, Stoaty. 🙂

Yeah, actually, Nina…there are a few. I lure them in with chickens and spotted dick, and THEN they discover it’s a political blog.

I feel guilty when that happens.

Question for Stoatie….

Have you tried feeding the Spotted Dick to the Chickens, and if so, did they enjoy it?

My enquiring mind is off on a tangent and needs an odd detail to ground it again…

(edit: I had no idea that your chickens had such PROLIFIC peckers… 😉 )

Nope, Scoob. Never tried. I did give them their first taste of icecream yesterday (and very damn expensive icecream it was). Lucia took a peck, Mapp took a peck, then Mapp pecked Lucia’s right out of her beak, then Mapp pecked the last bit off my fingers.

Safe to say, Mapp likes raspberry icecream.

The greatest chicken video ever made (it was a sandwich advert).

Oh, and the chickens are adorable. I’ve already posted the link everywhere, hope you don’t mind. I figure that if you let us steal your art, a few gratuitous you-tube links are nothin’.

And on the art-stealing front, please do something with an interesting black cat that I can steal for my mead labels. Weasels are cute, but our home meadery is Black Cat Meadery, and a weasel on the label just wouldn’t do, although if we ever decide to name one Stoaty’s Weasel Wench Mead, we’ll steal your art. We have to steal, too broke to buy. 😛

It’s Friday, I have a headache, and we have testing next week–crabby already. I think I need some of that mead, medicinal-like.

Heh heh heh

Do you have a label template, Nina? I mean, size and shape?

Do I mind if you post links? Nina, allow me to introduce you to the internet. Nina, internet. Internet, Nina.

Hoping to get links out-posted is what gets an internet attention whore out of bed in the morning.

Nina’s chicken video linkee isn’t working. Goes right back here. Or was that the plan, to drive up page views?
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I just don’t get the whole chicken thing. But I would guess the chickens could come up with a better energy policy than a certain current American president.

Your girls are beautiful Weas you must be such a proud momma.:)

Q. Why don’t chickens wear underwear?

A. Because their peckers are on their faces.

Fir Mike C:
The “whole chicken thing” is that once you have to deal with enough chicken shit, nothing else seems quite so bad.

Isn’t it obvious?

And oops, SWeas – that was YOUR chicken video linkee (The greatest chicken video ever made (it was a sandwich advert).)

Chickens are a HUGE improvement over ZERO. You have some really cool ones. I like some of these varieties. As my wife will hassle any PETA person – some of the most endangered species on earth are domesticated farm animals. We support many varieties. If you don’t eat them they will die out.

Funny(ish) chicken story. We have 2 Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. I KNOW you know what they are being in the UK.

Anyway, when they were puppies – they learned all about chickens – my in-laws have a ranch only minutes away.

Daisy (the sweet gung-ho “dog type” one) and Dolly (the evil plotter – who waits and watches) decided that anything that would run from them was good to chase. No “catching” necessary.

So, as the pups were running around chasing hens, Dolly lead Daisy into the hen-house. Uh-oh. Dolly made an about face immediately, just as Daisy ran in. After a second, Daisy wandered outside and stood there watching her sister run away at flank speed. (?!)

Up behind her came Mad Mamma – a large Rhode Island Red, stood there looking at this stoopit dog for a couple of seconds (with one eye as chickens do), summed up the target and then “pecked” her right on her um, well, spot under the tail. Hilarity ensued. Well, for us anyway.

These days Daisy is far more inclined to chase birds and cats (who only scratch), but gives those chickens a wide berth!

Yeah, watching chickens scratch and fish swim is good therapy. And gardening. And drinking. Breakfast. Glad you had a good day in the sun!

Thanks so much for the vids!

Blown her street cred right out of the water, Spad13.

It’s hard to maintain the rough ‘n tough Weasel image when you walk around the garden (and even the house, damnit!) cooing to an armful of chicken 😉

Love the vid!HT!

Your girls are gorgeous!! When they start molting, save some of the feathers to tie fishing flies with!!
“internet attention whore”? ROFLOL

Yeah, Stoaty, what blogger doesn’t have a yen for some of that sweet link love?

The label I use depends on the bottle, but generally for wine bottles I use these 2:http://www.4th-vine.com/us/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=198 used landscape…

(and going to another post to save me from residing with the ass porn)

… and http://www.4th-vine.com/us/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=206 used vertically, although horizontally it goes well on a beer bottle.

I totally suck using photoshop, and I’m therefore totally humiliated by other home-brewers’ awesome labels because mine…well…suck.

If you hadn’t married a dang furriner, I’d send you some mead–but if my daughter ever actually is allowed past immigration on that blasted island, I’ll try to send some with her to get to you somehow.

I heard the replay of him telling the man that he needs a hybrid van, and then he laughed. What a useless, disconnected man.

Sorry. Link fixed.

Thanks for fixing that “Techno Chicken” video link!

I’ll take chickens over The Won™ any day. Chickens actually have value, be they pets, providers of eggs, or the contents of a sandwich.

Clearly we’re happier talking about chickens than the guy in the vid.

I posted Stoaty’s chicken pecking video on my fb page and have got some “aren’t they cute I want some” comments. Everyone loves chickens?

I laughed, I cried. It became a part of me.

I particularly like that pic of a map of the US with a large screw embedded in the center of it. Is that, like, some sort of metaphor for something?

Me: Illinois? She’s a dead state! California? Boned! Massachusetts? Boned!

Pelosi: This situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!

Me: And we’re just the guys to do it!

Yeah, but I bet you didn’t notice the country was labeled “Estados Unidos” on that map, jw.

Duh. I am one unobservant sumbitch, Weez.

Sock-B-Gone!

Heh. I didn’t really expect anyone to notice. It was the first nice big map that turned up on a search, but I thought it was kind of funny.

So… that’s Obama’s plan! Totally ruin the country just before it becomes Los Estados Unidos! Barack, you magnificent bastard! Brilliant!

Wow, the girls have grown quite round. And gorgeous. Their pants still crack me up.

They sound a bit like my guinea pig Abby.

Today would have been my stepmother’s birthday. She had chickens too (it was illegal where we lived in the city but the neighbors all kept the secret because she was such a wonderful person). She loved and cared for her chickens until they died of old age.

Sigh. Thank you stirring up those memories.

Ooof, #1 Alfalfa has jumped to $18/bale due to increased fuel costs. Well I suppose I could trade my horses in for some goats to get more days/bale but it’s kind of hard to ride a goat.

Cute chickens. The only thing I don’t like about chickens is that they run around after you… Never mind.

For some reason I started to think about politics, chickens, and roads, and before I knew it this song popped in my head: The Dead Skunk song!

Any bets on the comment he REALLY wanted to make when the guy told him he had 10 kids?

I suspect it was something along the lines of “Couldn’t you get that bitch to have some abortions like MY people do?“

I spent my whole day sprawled over a lawn chair in the sunshine…

And they say England is cold and rainy.

Chicago has had nothing but cold and wet for a month; yesterday and today were the first warm spring days of the year.

The weather here is splendid. They only spread that story about cold and rainy to keep the ferriners out.

England does have long gray spells (and sometimes rainy spells), but it seldom gets much below freezing in Winter, and Summers are glorious. Most of the Summer, it’s sunny and 70°. Never gets above 85°. With a light breeze. And birdsong.

I have a low tolerance for extremes, and the climate of Tennessee and Rhode Island are surprisingly similar. RI is a little more brutal in Winter, Tennessee more brutal in Summer.

SWeas – Not workin’ too good at keepin’ them furriners out, is it?
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I watched the Obama video first. Your chickens are far more entertaining and productive.

For moomar:

And nowhere near as full of shit…

“If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,” Obama said laughingly. “You might want to think about a trade-in.”

The POTUSmobile weighs more (and is better-armored) than a Brit WWII Bren carrier, and it gets — wait for it — eight miles per gallon.

We’re already itching for trade-in time in 2012…