It’s Raining Cats and Dogs (and Chickens and Cows)
Do airborne animal parts suggest an emerging front in the War on Terror?
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Terrorism, like a virus, mutates. The beaver incidents could represent a fearsome new tactic in the ever-evolving battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.
Let’s be careful out there.
This column originally appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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Terrorists? Come on, the obvious explanation is alien abductions.
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I can't tell if this article was Hinkle trying, poorly, to make a point about regulatory waste or Hinkle doing a rambling Andy Rooney schtick, poorly.
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I think he just likes the swirlies.
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chicken parts and other WRMDs (Weapons of Rapid Mammallian Descent)
Chickens are birds. Birds are not mammals.
Dammit, Bart, you went months without earning a swirly and now we have to start again.
Also, the fact that Virginia's Eastern Shore is a major poultry-producing area might be more relevant than the presence of a NASA facility.
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But they have breasts!
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But no nipples, sadly.
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That's what the terrorists want you to think.
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There's also only one 'l' in mammalian. Although, with the order of the words, it's possible he meant that the chickens were derived from mammals (rapidly).
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As God as my witness, I thought chickens could fly!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FXSnoy71Q4
That was one of my favorite episodes.
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"oh, the humanity"
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"They're hitting the ground like bags of wet cement!"
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"It was almost like they were organized!"
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That is one of the funniest moments ever broadcast.
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Mmmmmm...Bailey....
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+Up and down the dial
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From the sound of this article I am assuming that the terrorists now have allies. Frenchies in an English castle are the certain cause of this.
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Pitchez la vache!
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I thought it was fetche la vache.
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Chicken Little had it wrong. The sky wasn't falling, he was.
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And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello, Ground!
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Oh, no. Not again.
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Meh, it all depends on your frame of reference. If Chicken Little was falling head first and is considered to be in an inertial reference frame then the sky would be falling relative to Chicken Little.
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When will the government save us from pointless two sentence "page two" click throughs?
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There oughtta be a law.
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I doubt Sr Hinkle read HyR comments, but on the off chance he does let me offer this bit of advice: Don't attempt humor with the humorless. There are types of humor that some people just won't ever get.
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This should have been saved for the Friday Funnies.
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He is not only humorless in himself, he is the cause of humorlessness in others.
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Also, Sister Hinkle??!?
Kinky.
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Sister Hinkle, oh the time has come
And you know that you're the only one
To say "Okay." -
Night Ranger? Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last?
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Obviously the remains of Big Bird after the mean GOP/Romney "gutted"
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This wins the thread!
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The cow’s name was Michele, kid you not.
Well, if the first lady hadn't insisted on packing her own 'chute despite having never gone skydiving before maybe that wouldn't have happened.
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Virginia’s Eastern Shore, where the chicken attack took place, is home to the Wallops Island Spaceport
Does Wallops have a chicken gun? Maybe someone as a joke fired a chicken into the sky just to see how far they could launch one. My turbine and rocket propulsion professor in college used to work at a facility that, among other things, tested jet engines for bird strike resistance. The facility was at the top of a hill and apparently they would sometimes fire the chicken gun at approaching cars coming up the hill. For some strange reason they eventually modified the gun so that it was fixed in place. I wonder why?
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Why would they have needed it to be positionable in the first place? That's not very scientific.
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Government has never defended us against Fortean events, despite years of investigating them. The X-Files wasn't a documentary, people.
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Wake me when it starts raining pussies.
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A. Barton Hinkle Heimer Schmidt
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If I see one more article with less than a paragraph onthe second page I'm going to think really bad thoughts towards you and the editors.
My normal thoughts are unpleasant enough, you really wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of the bad ones.
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It’s a tie game, folks: With the first of three presidential debates down and the vice presidential sideshow over, the two men at the top of the major party tickets will face off once again in yet another 90 minute debate, but putting on a carefully scripted show. cheap nfl jerseys positions. If either candidate started talking a good libertarian talk, even if only on a few subjects, they wouldn't ever be trusted this late in the game. And the game here is not just this general election but the whole of their political careers.
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Let us hope the preceding paragraphs rouse the nation’s guardians from their torpid slumber, and alert them to the peril that threatens the very fabric of our nation. Let us hope. This insouciance seems ill-advised, when you reflect that Virginia’s Eastern Shore, where the chicken attack took place, is home to the Wallops Island Spaceport – a crucial piece of the nation’s transportation infrastructurecheap nfl jerseys positions. I can't tell if this article was Hinkle trying, poorly, to make a point about regulatory waste or Hinkle doing a rambling Andy Rooney schtick, poorly.
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Given the way man has (in general) treated animals, I sincerely hope this is a well orchestrated conspiracy by the animal kingdom to get some measure of revenge. Tippi Hedren had it coming!