Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Interlibrary Loan of the day


The Chicken Health Handbook
is "a must-have reference for the small flock owner". Just look at that chicken on the cover! Doesn't she look healthy? Captain ILL has had the misfortune of working with Chickenman, a third-rate superhero with delusions of grandeur. The delusions of grandeur didn't offend the Captain's sensibilities; most superheroes suffer from some sort of delusion. It was the chicken feathers and poor hygiene that Captain ILL objected to. How does a six foot chicken man shed so many feathers? Feathers in the food, feathers all over the costumes, feathers in the antimatter intake of the ILLmobile ... it was all just too much. Eventually, Captain ILL convinced Chickenman to retire. Last the Captain heard he had married the Chicken Lady and they were both very involved in the free range chicken movement.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Captain ILL, the Herzog quote of the day about chickens is priceless.

As for the Chicken Lady, I followed the link and what learned REALLY creeped me out.

BowlingJoe

Captain ILL said...

Captain ILL makes no apologies for the creepiness of chickens or chicken/human hybrids. Like everything else in this wonderfully strange universe we live in: it is what it is.

David said...

When I was an innocent lad, in class my teacher asked the age old puzzler, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" and I replied "The rooster?" It wasn't till years later that I realized what I'd said.

Captain ILL said...

That chicken or egg question is a bit of a puzzler, but I'm more intrigued by the idea that there might have been a Cosmic Chicken that laid the Cosmic Egg.

groovelily said...

The Chicken Lady is beyond creepy....a farmer and a hen???

Captain ILL said...

I've been watching old episodes of Kids In the Hall on DVD, and I can assure you that the Chicken Lady is indeed "creepy". She has pictures of her parents on her apartment wall: a hen and a farmer trying to block the camera lens with his hand.