[aldo_14]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/25/dead_chicken_tribute/

[q]Merseyside police have ordered the local community to "stop grieving" after Liverpudlians flocked to deposit flowers, cards and teddy bears in tribute to a dead chicken found in an alleyway. According to the BBC, one card read: "RIP Little Baby. Safe in the arms of Jesus. From someone who is a loving mother xxxx."

A spokeswoman for Merseyside police explained to the BBC: "It seems a member of the public saw the remains of a foetus, which possibly resembled a human foetus, and called us. We cordoned off the area to investigate, as we would with any possible suspicious death, but it became apparent it was not a human foetus. The flowers and cards are obviously the result of local gossip, but we can assure people that the remains were not human."

Accordingly the Old Bill on Monday issued a "stop grieving, it's only a chicken" edict. The BBC rather unfairly concludes by noting that Spectator editor Boris Johnson last year attracted a hailstorm of flack for condemning Liverpudlians as "hooked on grief". ®[/q]

[Kie99]

The BBC rather unfairly concludes by noting that Spectator editor Boris Johnson last year attracted a hailstorm of flack for condemning Liverpudlians as "hooked on grief". ®

Fantastic

[Mongoose]

What purpose does that extra 'o' in "foetus" serve, anyway?

[Grey Wolf]

To make you ask that question.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]And to educate you as to how it should be spelled.
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[Mongoose]

"Should" be spelled?  I call that inefficiency.  Wastes too much printer ink to have 'o's and 'u's floating around all over the place when they're not necessary

[Kie99]

It's our language, at least let us spell it correctly, even if you don't want to.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Mongoose
"Should" be spelled?  I call that inefficiency.  Wastes too much printer ink to have 'o's and 'u's floating around all over the place when they're not necessary

i totly dsagre wit u n tht positn.

[Grey Wolf]

A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
   by Mark Twain

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

[Ace]

What I found the most ironic is how someone thought that a chicken fetus was a human one and proceeded to write a funeral note.

Guess that fundies even in the UK fail biology each year

[aldo_14]

Not fundies, scousers.

[Grey Wolf]

Idiots?

[aldo_14]

Um... if I say anything, they might drown me.......

[Taristin]

When is Britain going to apologize for displacing all of the native americans back in the 15-1700's? India in the 17-1800's, Africa during the same period? The opium wars? Etc?

And when is the US going to apologize for all if it's crimes against humanity? And France, and germany and japan and china and...

[Grey Wolf]

I blame Homo erectus.

[vyper]

We displaced Indians?

[Taristin]

Oh no... the 13 settlement colonies were cohabitations.

[Deepblue]

You forgot the slave trade.

[Grey Wolf]

I still blame homo erectus. If he hadn't gotten uppity and evolved, we'd have none of these problems

[Deepblue]

No, the British obtained the land fair-and-square. They got the Indians rip-roaringly drunk and then made a fair deal.