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NFTs have about the same investment potential as “animation cels” derived from famous cartoons and animations. I guess a buyer could hang the stuff on a wall and call it “art” but…

There are so many investment scams today that I really think that “investment tulips” will make a comeback soon!

“-Oh, look at all the lurrvly chickens”

That was the original hook line for the Beatles song that became Eleanor Rigby. It was going to be called Lovely Chickens.

John’s contribution was telling Paul “that’s stupid” and over a few pints they got talking about the old lady shut-in that Paul did errands for, who also kept chickens. Her name wasn’t Eleanor, or Rigby, but he thought that sounded like a real name.

The chickens didn’t make it into the song.

🙄

“…which in turn fires the speed flash…”

Wouldn’t all that flashing drive the chikkens bonkers? It’d drive me bonkers.

Kind of an odd looking chikken in the background.

Durned, I read somewhere the Eleanor Rigby was a name on a tombstone in a churchyard they used to cut through to go…somewhere. The real Eleanor Rigby married, had children and died relatively young of TB.

The Wikipedia article says none of this and has a different inspiration story.

Quasi, I’m tempted think “speed flash” is the thing that communicates with the internet, because it specifically says it triggers the camera and *then* the speed flash, which wouldn’t make sense.

The chicken in the background has such gorgeous feathers. It almost looks like fabric.

If you mean the one in the middle (not counting the deer chicken in the back), I thought she was the gold-laced Wyandotte, which is indeed a very beautiful color. But here’s the original and it looks like the silver-laced Wyandotte.

Also beautiful, but I prefer the gold. I had a gold partridge bantam who I still think was the most beautiful chicken ever. Poor Vita. She was a pariah hen.

My beautiful Vita, eating sketties:

Aww. Vita was beautiful. She looks like an old tapestry…

Her sister (from the same clutch of eggs) won Best In Show at the South England Poultry Show (that’s not the exact title. I forget the exact title).

She was a lovely, sweet bird.

If it weren’t for the sketty Mrs. D. Would hang that photo in our tv room!

We has chicken art, and a gorgeous painted metal rooster; which turned out to be a spiffy dent resistant target for the brats and their airsoft weapons. There’s nothing soft about those by the way, as our lampshades and rearview car mirror will attest.