Winedocks, Asterlops & Coo Coo Maroons

[LittleFeat]

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I agree....I am not laughing AT the people posting the ads, I'm laughing at the creative comments our forum members are making. I doubt many of the ad posters have ever seen the names of the chickens written down, they are just going by how they've heard them pronounced. Hope no one is taking offense. I will say though that if I was going to post an ad, I would at least check the spelling....but then, I've seen professional signs that are full of spelling and grammatical errors. I'm sure I'm guilty at times. But you have to admit, these are just too funny!

I wasn't meaning to call any body out. Just wanted to make people aware that there are some regional variations sometimes concerning breed names that can come across as ignorance. Most of these folks have never laid eyes on a Standard Of Perfection, and the closest the've come to a poultry show is the county fair. That does not mean they have not raised many a bird over their lifetime.

I have always had a thing for brahmas. When I was a kid the old timers pronounced it "braimas" or more likely "braimeys" with a long A sound on the first syllable, long or short E on the second. This did not mean they did not know how to breed a good one.

No offense taken, or meant. Just gets my feathers up a bit if I feel someone is getting made fun of, less of course they deserve it.

No offense and I love play on words and funny ways people refer to things. I spent half my life being lovingly teased for referring to my Chest of Drawers in my bedroom as Chester drawers. I never could understand how it got that name?

I was in my 20's before I realized what it was really called. I also called the chimney a chimley!

 

[chickensioux]

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It's not "gooder" it's "betterer"! Write?

 

[WiseChicks]

No offense and I love play on words and funny ways people refer to things. I spent half my life being lovingly teased for referring to my Chest of Drawers in my bedroom as Chester drawers. I never could understand how it got that name?

I was in my 20's before I realized what it was really called. I also called the chimney a chimley!

When I was little, I believed with all my heart that in Jingle Bells the lyrics said, "One horse, Soap, and Sleigh." While I couldn't come up with a good reason for transporting soap in a Christmas song,

I was stubbornly entrenched in my belief, and I remember my grandmother and my aunt trying for hours to get me to change my mind.

Didn't work. I'd run in circles around the coffee table, singing along with Mitch Miller, " ... One Horse, SOAP, and Sleigh!!!!"

Katie​

 

[cluckoldhen]

My all time favorite didn't have anything to do with chickens tho - it was dogs, and the breed was "copper sandal". I was like "??????" and then it hit me - COCKER SPANIEL...

Someone posted an ad at the local store for rockwaller puppies...took me awhile to figure out what they were!!

 

[Msbear]

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[Cetawin]

"These are straight run eggs!!! THAT has been my mistake all along! I have been ordering straight run eggs rather than SEXED EGGS!Please also make sure you have an incubator and now what your doing.. There's my OTHER mistake!! You need an incubator to hatch the eggs! Who knew? I just kept checking the cardboard box the eggs came in every once in a while, hoping to see chicks... The eggs are mostly buff orphingtons than cinamon reds."


OMG

That must be why I got 3 boys and 1 girl from my 4 EE eggs...I did not sex the eggs before putting them in the incubator.

 

[SteveH]

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It's not "gooder" it's "betterer"! Write?

It don't make no difrence , even tho we whupped the English we still got to speak there langenge cause the govment run scools sez so . The stuped teecher made me rite a hole report over when I was a kid cause the report sed I went to my Ant Milderds to spend the weekend an she made me take a warsh rag to my face cause my hands aint good enuff .
OK , I learned to spell [ sometimes

] and speak proper English ....... [ sort'a ] ......... but still prefer the " American " language and don't feel a bit superior to those who struggle with the translation of it to written English . My Ant Milderd is usually Aunt Mildred now , but NEVER pronounced " Ont " . After writing " There is no such word as ain't . " on the blackboard 100 times instead of going to recess , I was absolutely convinced the word existed and there's a correct way to spell it . { Got the Board of Education for telling them that too } If the rest of America wants to speak English [ or even a Mexican dialect of Spanish if you prefer ] it's fine with me . But if you live south of Chicago , doesn't it make you feel kind'a warm and comfortable inside to speak the " American " language instead of the high falutin' English those big city and northern foreigners use ? Its kind'a funny to see a breed name butchered , but I'm often confused at how to say it even if I remember the spelling . So ......... I want to buy a pair of D'Uncle chickens , but I want a real pair that will raise purebred chicks . Should I be looking for one D'Uncle and a D'Aunt ?

 

[Minniechickmama]

Off the chickens a minute...
When I was a teen, some friends of ours were getting ready to go to a Rolling Stones concert. One of them thought the lyrics that are "I'll never be your beast of burden" said "I'll never be your pizza burnin'"

 

[amazondoc]

I think I've got you all beat.

A week or two ago, we had a Craigslist ad for "Warshington" chickens.

 

[Mahonri]

What a great thread.

Older hen, juvenille roo, come from very dark eggs?

Coo, Coo, Cachoo Marans.