Longest Surviving Headless Chicken

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Sovz

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On September 10, 1945, a Wyandotte chicken belonging to Lloyd Olsen of Fruita, Colorado, USA, had its head chopped off, but went on to survive for 18 months. Mike's owner, Lloyd Olsen of Fruita, Colorada, USA, fed and watered the headless chicken directly into his gullet using an eyedropper. Mike eventually choked to death one night in an Arizona motel.

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Sceptical scientists thought it was a hoax, so one week into Mike-the-headless-chicken’s physically-altered life, farmer Lloyd Olsen packed Mike up and took him on a cross-country tour from Fruita, Colorado to the University Of Utah in Salt Lake City. The axe blade, scientists discovered, had missed the five-and-a-half month old Wyandotte rooster’s jugular vein, and a clot had saved the chicken from bleeding to death.

Because Lloyd had aimed the axe so high, most of the brain stem was left at the top of the spine. One ear had also survived. Mike, it seemed, had lost the power to see and to cluck, but could still hear and think. Mike was also growing, weighing 1.1 kg. (2.5 lb.) when he first lost his head, and developing to a respectable 3.6 kg. (8 lb.) by the time he passed away.

Celebrity status was guaranteed when a manager took the chicken on a national tour, and his story was reported in well-respected news magazines Life and Time. Like many legendary celebrities, Mike’s life ended in a hotel room. Mike began to choke and Lloyd was unable to find the eyedropper to clear Mike’s esophagus. It was the end of the road for Mighty Mike. Gone but certainly not forgotten, Mike’s life is celebrated each year by Fruita residents, who simply remember him as, “a big, fat chicken who didn’t know he didn’t have a head”.
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hmm... I wonder how long can bush survive....
 
Jesus, this is scary and truly disgusting. Reminds me of the 'chicken from outer space' from that cartoon, Courage the Cowardly Dog.
 
“a big, fat chicken who didn’t know he didn’t have a head”
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Essentially, he did have a head, or at least all the parts essential to survival (provided somebody feeds/cares for it).
 
I should feel pity towards the maimed chicken, but this would be hypocrisy, given how many chickens are being molested at the farms world-wide each year.

Still, it had enough brains not to post stupid stuff at Internet forae.
 
hehe, I read this somewhere else, there they said the chick died because the skin grew over the throat...
 
Damn.

I half-expected it to be the Romanian chicken from that other thread of yours.
 
If it was a Romanian chicken people would have sexually abused it the way MoK described.

Silencer: It's "fora". "Forum" is u-declination so the plural is "fora". Correct English would be "forums" but the Latin plural is no less valid.
 
Ashmo said:
If it was a Romanian chicken people would have sexually abused it the way MoK described.

Silencer: It's "fora". "Forum" is u-declination so the plural is "fora". Correct English would be "forums" but the Latin plural is no less valid.
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You're right, of course. About the declination, not the chicken abuse ;)
 
ive seen a turkey run around for like five minutes without a head...........one year around this time a friend of the family had raised around 34 or so turkeys, and they needed help butching and cleaning them. so we started kinda a factory line of butching and cleaning these turkeys, and my dad cuts on of there heads of and it runs around for five whole minutes before stopping.
 
Wooz said:
Damn.

I half-expected it to be the Romanian chicken from that other thread of yours.
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Best...reference-to-another-thread...EVER!

Seems like everyone wants every joke to revolve around a Romanian penis.

Thats truly amazing...though it makes you wonder. If it could live and think, but not see or cluck what did it try to do with itself? Probably think "Just eat me already!"

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The Vault Dweller
 
Ashmo said:
Silencer: It's "fora". "Forum" is u-declination so the plural is "fora". Correct English would be "forums" but the Latin plural is no less valid.
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No. If you want to be smart and use Latin form of word 'forum', you must also decline it properly. So in this case, Silencer should use plural ablative form of 'forum', which is 'foris'.

Simply saying 'forums' sounds a lot easier now, doesn't it? :)
 
Ratty said:
Ashmo said:
Silencer: It's "fora". "Forum" is u-declination so the plural is "fora". Correct English would be "forums" but the Latin plural is no less valid.
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No. If you want to be smart and use Latin form of word 'forum', you must also decline it properly. So in this case, Silencer should use plural ablative form of 'forum', which is 'foris'.

Simply saying 'forums' sounds a lot easier now, doesn't it? :)
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In German it is common practice to import the Latin plural, however the declinations then become static, that is, you use the first case ending for every case.

English has no ablative so the declinations are technically incompatible. I think that's also the reason for what I said about German.
 
Ashmo said:
In German it is common practice to import the Latin plural, however the declinations then become static, that is, you use the first case ending for every case.

English has no ablative so the declinations are technically incompatible. I think that's also the reason for what I said about German.
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That's kind of silly. I suggest not importing plural and simply using your own plural form.
 
Ratty said:
Ashmo said:
In German it is common practice to import the Latin plural, however the declinations then become static, that is, you use the first case ending for every case.

English has no ablative so the declinations are technically incompatible. I think that's also the reason for what I said about German.
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That's kind of silly. I suggest not importing plural and simply using your own plural form.
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I suppose that's why there are native plural forms in most languages. The plural of virus for example is viruses although the correct Latin form would be "virus" with a long "u" ("viroos" basically).
Just importing the plural tends to make words sound really awkward.
 
OMG another language discussion thread!

The plural of virus is 'virii'. If you want to sound educated. :) And Ashmo is right, English does make the declination static as far as I know. The 'ae' I use would be correct ending, for example, of the plural of 'aqua', if I'm not mistaken...

Anyway...

The_Vault_Dweller said:
Best...reference-to-another-thread...EVER!
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Not at all; Please observe http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9748

Also brought to us by our precious Wooz.
 
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