Chi-cken!
Friday, 08 September, 2006
(When you say the heading to this blog post, say it like Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element.)
Read this today in the SMH and couldn't help cracking up at the mental image it inserted into my brain:
Thousands of live chickens spilled onto the M7 freeway after a truck carrying the birds crashed during the storm.
The truck aquaplaned and crashed about 3am while taking the Horsley Drive exit ramp at Wetherill Park, police said.
The truck hit a wall and rolled back onto the freeway, spilling up to 4000 chickens onto the road, police said.
Northbound traffic was being diverted onto Elizabeth Drive and returning to the M7 via the Old Wallgrove Road, with heavy traffic on Cowpasture Road, Elizabeth Drive and Wallgrove Road due to the diversions.
The condition of the chickens is unknown.
I know, I know, poor chickens ...
Current:
Bible: Isaiah (ESV) 28/09/2010
seen: Tropic Thunder 26/09/2010
seen: The Life of Mammals 24/09/2010
seen: What a Girl Wants 19/09/2010
seen: Jerry Maguire 19/09/2010
seen: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 06/09/2010
seen: Tomorrow Never Dies 05/09/2010
seen: Nanny McPhee 28/08/2010
read: Mercury (Hope Larson) 27/08/2010
read: Spellcheckers Vol 1 (Jamie S Rich, Nicolas Hitori de, Joelle Jones) 16/08/2010
read: Solipsistic Pop Vol 2 (Solipsistic Pop) 16/08/2010
read: Chiggers (Hope Larson) 15/08/2010
seen: Josie and the Pussycats 14/08/2010
seen: Mr & Mrs Smith 14/08/2010
seen: Step Up 2 13/08/2010
Blinks:
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
Online magazine that publishes fairy tales that are not reworkings of old tales.
Journal that publishes fairy tale writing.
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“The condition of the chickens is unknown.”
I had the same response. The chickens in my head resembled the muppet chickens, and Gonzo was the driver.
I thought of Chicken Run chickens scattering the way the sheep do in Wallace & Gromit’s A Close Shave!