Are people really this ignorant about chicken biology?

[gway2008]

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There's a scene I remember from the old TV show "All in the Family". This is paraphrasing from memory:

Edith: I made Archie a sandwich from beef tongue, but he didn't want it. He said he would never eat something that had been in a cow's mouth.

Mike: So what did he eat instead?

Edith: A boiled egg.

I have heard this one before but it makes me laugh every time I hear it...

Why do people get offended so easily? The older I get the more easy going I become. It is so not worth having high blood pressure over what other people think or say. Just my 2 cents, it's not worth even that though, lol...

 

[StupidBird]

just read all 13 pages of this subject. whoa, people! Get a sense of humor already. There's an idiot in every crowd, and everybody is occasionally an idiot, that's why it's so funny.

I've done my share of idiot things! "Ausfart" is not this really large town in Germany. Fresh beets will make pee bright red and is not a medical emergency.

Referring to an early post here, as I remember, the manual for the '66 chevy 283 V8 had me setting the timing by flashing a strobe light "timing light" to see some mysterious mark on the timing belt, and adjusting the brackets or something until the little mark always showed in the center of the flash. And that's me back when I was a new mom and I gave my baby a wrench to hammer on the fender on the blanket beside me as I tried to make that old car run for another week. Silly me, I just read the book. Kept that thing going for another ten years.

Now that the libraries all carry enormous fiction and animae/comic sections, I rely on the internet. LIKE THIS WONDERFUL SITE!

 

[Peaguy]

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AND BREED!!! TALK ABOUT SCARY!

 

[SunAngel]

I think people are just missing common sense.

I asked a friend of mine who chats with me at our kids bus stop, if she would like some free eggs. She says sure...I asked if she wanted some of the green/blue ones also...she says ok, but they aren't green inside are they?

When we first started giving out eggs to friends, them and their kids would refuse to use the one or two blue/green eggs I put in the dozen, thinking they were 'special' and shouldn't be eaten. Took us awhile to convince them I could give them those eggs in every dozen.

The other day the SnapOn guy came into my DH's work to see if he wanted anything. He asked my DH if he had any eggs for sale (I send eggs into work with hubby to sell). DH asks the guy why he always asks if he has eggs, but he never buys any. The guy says he wants to buy some, but he's afraid there's gonna be pee-pees in the eggs. He is a friend of DHs, so hubby jokingly called him an idiot and said there was no way pee-pees would be in the eggs. So the guy says ok, he would take a dozen and paid DH 50 cents more than he asked for.

On a side note, all the older guys (40+) in this area seem to refer to chicks as pee-pees or baby pee-pees...which makes me giggle every time. I call them chicks, maybe peeps...but I just can't bring myself to tell the guy at the poultry auction that I have 5 pee-pees in my box to sell

 

[Dragonfly Ranch]

A funny/cute story about one of my co-workers. New mother-in-law has chickens and graciously gave them some fresh eggs - Green/Blue from Americanas - this co-worker calls her husband and wanted to know why his mom would give them rotten eggs! Hubby was kind and didn't laugh to loud - neither did I

 

[Judy]

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I am sorry to see that this thread got revived, especially since "stupid" is still in the title.

 

[Whispering Winds]

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There's a scene I remember from the old TV show "All in the Family". This is paraphrasing from memory:

Edith: I made Archie a sandwich from beef tongue, but he didn't want it. He said he would never eat something that had been in a cow's mouth.

Mike: So what did he eat instead?

Edith: A boiled egg.

I have heard this one before but it makes me laugh every time I hear it...

Why do people get offended so easily? The older I get the more easy going I become. It is so not worth having high blood pressure over what other people think or say. Just my 2 cents, it's not worth even that though, lol...

You said it, I use to be a hot head about things, and probably said things, no, I am sure i said things I shouldn't have . . . now if I don't see blood I figure it will be o.k. . .but that Archie/Edith is hysterical!!!

 

[SunAngel]

To form an idea, believe it and then share it with others, without bothering to find out the correct answer, is stupidity.

It would be one thing if most of the people mentioned 'asked' legitimate questions or were just misinformed...but some of the stuff they come up with and then tell others claiming as true, is plain stupid.

Just like the person that thought green eggs would be green inside...c'mon...are white eggs white inside, are brown eggs brown inside? They don't even think before they speak.

Even my 8 yr old knew there wouldn't be chicks inside freshly laid eggs. Most of the birds they have probably seen in their lives have to sit on nests of eggs to get them to hatch, but I suppose chickens are different and you just crack open a freshly laid egg and out pops a chick...wow...amazing. Duh, thats stupidity.

So, yes, some of the stuff people come up with is stupid!

 

[speckledhen]

I have changed the title, folks, since this old thread has been resurrected.

 

[msgenie516]

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Brown cows, of course!

Edted to say: O-o-o-ps! Just saw that someone else had the same answer! Sorry!