Do you want this one Vicki? Or shall I?
Syd Curtis wrote:
> The gun was set to a little over the maximum design speed of the train, and
> fired.
> "Do you think we should have thawed the chicken out first?"
There is a series of folklorish tales revolving this tool. But the chicken
gun does exist.
For a run down http://www.urbanlegends.com is your friend.
Also a quick follow to Paul Taylor's "Funny Banding Story" of the 7th
August. Paul's instincts were right on the urban myth. I ran it past
alt.folklore.urban and after a number of "think this is an old joke" got
this, from Charles Dimmick, showing just how old it was:
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The metal strips used to band birds are inscribed: "Notify
Fish and Wild Life Service, Washington, D.C." They used
to read "Washington Biological Survey," abbreviated to
"Wash.Biol.Surv." This was changed after an Alberta
farmer shot a crow and disgustedly wrote the U.S.
Government: "Dear Sirs: I shot one of your pet crows the
other day and followed instruction attached to it. I washed
it and biled it and surved it. It was turrible. You should
stop trying to fool the people with things like this . . . ."
------ Hugh Newton in _Liberty_ [194_?]
Reprinted in "Fun Fare - A Treasury of Reader's Digest Wit and Humor
Copyright 1949 by the Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
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Still, it was amusing.
--
Eric Hocking
"A closed mouth gathers no feet"
== Melbourne, Australia ==
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~ehocking
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