Pops, are you OK? (Chicken run in Oxford!)

[Guest]

1,000 loose chickens create highway chaos (Salon.com)

July 23, 2004 | London -- A busy highway near Oxford in central England was closed in both directions Friday when around 1,000 chickens escaped from a truck that collided with four other vehicles, injuring four people.

“They were all over the carriageway,” said a spokesman for Thames Valley Police.

The birds' escape could be short-lived: Thousands of shooting enthusiasts, game keepers and falconers are in the area for a game fair organized by the Country Land and Business Association.

“We are going to ask (them) if there are any wagons or nets that we can use to get the chickens together,” said the police spokesman, who spoke with customary anonymity.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Poor little chicken! What could possibly be the worst way to die; getting eaten by a hungry fox, runned over by a car, or shot by a trigger-happy Oxford-redneck?--

 

[Guest]

Poor little chicken! What could possibly be the worst way to die; getting eaten by a hungry fox, runned over by a car, or shot by a trigger-happy Oxford-redneck?--

There are worse fates to befall a chicken, at the hands of an Oxford redneck.

 

[Black Tulip]

Oh god, noooo. Not: a fate worse than death?????

 

[Guest]

Oh god, noooo. Not: a fate worse than death?????

*dramatic music plays*

Da-da-daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

There are worse fates to befall a chicken, at the hands of an Oxford redneck.

Poor Blodwyn, she'll be so jealous. P.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

There are worse fates to befall a chicken, at the hands of an Oxford redneck.

A vivid imagination, cup of coffee and that quote equal Colly cleaning the keyboard & montior.

*HUGS*

-Colly

 

[Guest]

<Wiping Colly's chin> Colly, I wonder if Loulou knows there's an Oxford, Mississippi. P.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

<Wiping Colly's chin> Colly, I wonder if Loulou knows there's an Oxford, Mississippi. P.

I am quite impressed you knew Dita, most folks can't even name the state capital

*HUGS*

 

[Guest]

<Wiping Colly's chin> Colly, I wonder if Loulou knows there's an Oxford, Mississippi. P.

No, I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me. Damn Yanks have no imagination and steal all our city names.

(I know, I know, before somebody jumps on me, it's more than likely my fellow countrymen, in the dim and distant past, who egotistically named a lot of your towns and cities after their own. BT, didn't New York used to be called New Amsterdam? )

Lou

 

[Black Tulip]

Um, yes and we swapped it with your lot for Suriname.

 

[Guest]

Um, yes and we swapped it with your lot for Suriname.

Smart move.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

No, I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me. Damn Yanks have no imagination and steal all our city names.

(I know, I know, before somebody jumps on me, it's more than likely my fellow countrymen, in the dim and distant past, who egotistically named a lot of your towns and cities after their own. BT, didn't New York used to be called New Amsterdam? )

Lou

We have a Rome too, & a Corinth, Carthage, Sparte, Ithica. Stole a lot from the Cherokee too like Itiwamba, Itabeena, Iuka, Oktibiha, and Bovina. Made up a few like Hot Coffee & Midnight.

As for name swipeing, like most other things, we got it from you. Londinium anyone?

-Colly

 

[Guest]

Paris, Texas; Athens, Georgia; Yorkshire, Virginia; St. Petersburg, Florida; Venice, California

 

[Guest]

Newcastle (just wanted to add one more. )

I bet you don't have a Bournemouth!

Yeah, Colly, damn those Romans. At least many Anglo-Saxon place names have survived in my part of the country: Piddle Trenthide, for example. Hehehe! That name always makes me giggle.

Lou

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Newcastle (just wanted to add one more. )

I bet you don't have a Bournemouth!

Yeah, Colly, damn those Romans. At least many Anglo-Saxon place names have survived in my part of the country: Piddle Trenthide, for example. Hehehe! That name always makes me giggle.

Lou

I like the surviving gaelic ones I can't even begin to hope to pronunce

-Colly

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

We have a Paris and Memphis in Tn.

 

[Guest]

Let's see...

Here in Ohio we have Athens, London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Cairo, Avon, Bainbridge, Cambridge, Toledo, Dover, Dublin(home), Gallion, Genoa, Holland, Lancaster, Lebonon, Lima, Macedonia, Malta, Milan, Oxford, Portsmouth, Strasburg, Troy and Wooster(at least we spelled it right).

Yeah, our forfathers were name thives. So?

 

[Guest]

Let's see...

Here in Ohio we have Athens, London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Cairo, Avon, Bainbridge, Cambridge, Toledo, Dover, Dublin(home), Gallion, Genoa, Holland, Lancaster, Lebonon, Lima, Macedonia, Malta, Milan, Oxford, Portsmouth, Strasburg, Troy and Wooster(at least we spelled it right).

Yeah, our forfathers were name thives. So?

Well, it's better than being chicken buggerers.

Lou

 

[Black Tulip]

Or stupid traders.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Don't you Americans have enough imagination to come up with names for your cities yourselves?
I've heard that you even have several Springfield's!

 

[rgraham666]

Let's see...

Here in Ohio we have Athens, London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Cairo, Avon, Bainbridge, Cambridge, Toledo, Dover, Dublin(home), Gallion, Genoa, Holland, Lancaster, Lebonon, Lima, Macedonia, Malta, Milan, Oxford, Portsmouth, Strasburg, Troy and Wooster(at least we spelled it right).

Yeah, our forfathers were name thives. So?

You still have a Berlin? We used to have one here in Ontario. They changed the name to Kitchener during WWI.

We also had a Paris but that was changed to Waterloo shortly after the Napoleonic Wars.

I wonder if a war starts with Great Britain if we'll have change London to Washington or sumpin.

Oh well, we'll always have Stratford.

 

[Teenage Venus]

I wonder if a war starts with Great Britain if we'll have change London to Washington or sumpin.

Nah. We only outnumber them five to one, so I guess we will be stuck with New York becoming 'Little London', and L.A. as New Birmingham.

 

[Just-Legal]

I bet you don't have a Bournemouth!

Or a Scunthorpe.

Read it carefully.

And hey, you have a Yorkshire too?