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Waiting for The Chicken

Illustration is from the other day when I was trying to trick AI (in this case canva.com) into giving me a farting chicken. As a farting chicken, it’s a failure, but I kinda liked the image and wanted to preserve it.

But – whooeee! – look at those mangled toes! Why is AI so bad at digits?

Ten minutes ago, I finally managed to register my little flock. The site has been unreachable all day, but I kept trying. What an awful lot of drama for three roosters and an elderly hen who lays about six eggs a year.

Meanwhile, I have inherited a chicken. Or, rather, Uncle B has. His mum died during lockdown and some of her furniture has been stored away waiting for us to arrange delivery. We finally got it down to two arm chairs and The Chicken.

I have no memory of this object, but I’m told it’s a large and impressive papier mâché chicken that she somehow picked up in her travels. It should be here in an hour or so and then we’ll all find out.

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Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: October 2, 2024, 7:13 pm

I am pretty sure that chicken will end up in a place of honor, near your hearth.

As I look around our little bungalow I am stunned by the number of knickknacks and oddities that we have collected during our adventures wandering the planet. To be honest, a giant paper mâché chicken would probably go unnoticed by most visitors.

I wish I could be around to watch when my niece tries to inventory this raven’s cache after our deaths.. It’d be quite amusing.


Comment from Uncle Al
Time: October 2, 2024, 11:07 pm

Hey, @Stoaty! Will we have a new Dead Pool this Friday what with mossomo’s win with Nasty Nas’ nuking?

Comment from mossomo
Time: July 27, 2024, 10:52 pm
I’m removing my obligatory Zelensky.
Replacing him with Nasrallah.
*fingers crossed*
-mossomo

(And no, mossomo’s not referring to an earlier pick in this round. Nobody picked Zelensky this time.)


Comment from durnedyankee
Time: October 2, 2024, 11:38 pm

Putin had Zelensky, but the CIA erased the post.

I have a record of it.
I was also an admiral and fought at Trafalgar.


Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: October 3, 2024, 7:18 am

What?
Sometimes I’m a knucklehead and use “bad grammar”.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: October 3, 2024, 1:14 pm

Uncle Al, I think that comes under rule #4 – your first choice sticks.

Delighted to see him crossed off, anyway.


Comment from Jon
Time: October 3, 2024, 3:44 pm

I saw a streamer had a 3D printed extra finger that could be worn, so that the pictures of him would look like AI. Also allowed him to “flip off” people, sometimes accidentally.


Comment from Uncle Al
Time: October 3, 2024, 9:14 pm

@Stoaty — I’ll make just this one comment and then shut up. That comment of mossomo’s I quoted above is his/her first one in the DP. I know it reads as though Zelensky was the first pick, that never happened that I can see. But YOU DA BOSS, Ma’am!

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