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RE: Headless chook hypothesis!
July 20, 2015 at 5:31 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
Quote:Mike the Headless Chicken (April 1945 – March 1947), also known as Miracle Mike,[1] was a Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off. Although the story was thought by many to be a hoax, the bird's owner took him to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to establish the facts.
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RE: Headless chook hypothesis!
July 20, 2015 at 8:38 am
A chook sounds like something out of a Dr. Seuss book.
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RE: Headless chook hypothesis!
July 20, 2015 at 8:44 am
A chook is a cross between a chef and a cook.
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RE: Headless chook hypothesis!
July 20, 2015 at 8:49 am
Duh. I've got google, rob.
Plus, I already knew that like a long time ago.
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RE: Headless chook hypothesis!
July 20, 2015 at 9:48 am
Yes, to echo a sentiment from above, I have certainly been able to figure out what a "chook" is from context clues, but as an American I've gone nearly 26 years without having heard that word before...
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RE: Headless chook hypothesis!
July 20, 2015 at 2:42 pm
Just in case someone is interested in a reasonable discussion of this:
http://sciencenordic.com/why-do-headless-chickens-run
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RE: Headless chook hypothesis!
July 20, 2015 at 3:04 pm
What kind of backwards commie socialist illegal immigrant tree hugger calls a chicken a chook?
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RE: Headless chook hypothesis!
July 20, 2015 at 3:34 pm
(July 20, 2015 at 3:04 pm)Chad32 Wrote: What kind of backwards commie socialist illegal immigrant tree hugger calls a chicken a chook?
Australians and New Zealanders. They are the kind of backwards commie socialist illegal immigrant tree huggers who call a chicken a "chook."
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RE: Headless chook hypothesis!
July 21, 2015 at 2:39 am
I prefer to simply call a chook a spade.
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RE: Headless chook hypothesis!
July 21, 2015 at 2:46 am
(July 20, 2015 at 3:04 pm)Chad32 Wrote: What kind of backwards commie socialist illegal immigrant tree hugger calls a chicken a chook?
I'm no tree hugger!
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Chook raffle is the name given to the Australian tradition of "raffling off" chooks, i.e. whole (dressed) chickens, often in clubs or pubs.
The name derives from "chook", an Australian term for a chicken. Most often the chicken is prepared by a butcher, but live chickens are sometimes raffled.[1]
The chook raffle is a special case of a meat raffle, but is more often used as a fund-raising activity by an amateur club or organisation.
Perhaps because of this association, the expression tends to be used disparagingly about someone who claims to have, or should have, superior organisational skills, that they "couldn't run a chook raffle".[2]
The term is also used to describe any random process. An example is selecting the winner of an election by drawing a name from a hat, said to be turning the process into a "chook raffle".[3]
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