krs
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posted on June 27, 2001 01:16:13 AM new
When I was just a very little girl, I only had one household chore. I had to gather
the eggs from the henhouse. One day, I decided I'd be clever and catch the egg
as it was coming out of the chicken. (Unless you've experienced this for yourself,
you may not realize that those lovely hard-shelled eggs that you keep in your
refrigerator are not the instantaneous by-product of a hen. Nope. You see, I
found out the truth the icky and gross way.) As I patiently waited with my virginal
young hand under the hen's ass, the chicken began to cackle, announcing the
imminent arrival of the egg. Then...gloosh! You see, when an egg is first laid, it is
still soft and mooshy, presumably to come out of the chicken that much more
easily. I held in my hand a squooshy mooshy egg, or at least I held it long enough
to be grossed right out of my three-year-old mind! The egg and the hen went
flying, and never again did I hold my hand expectantly beneath a chicken's butt.
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gravid
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posted on June 27, 2001 02:15:12 AM new
Great story - Let's call it "tinkle on" economics. Closer to the truth.
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krs
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posted on June 27, 2001 04:29:24 AM new
It's like the tax refund too.
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nettak
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posted on June 27, 2001 04:48:15 AM new
When I was just a very little girl
It just goes to show that you can never take anything for granted, like for instance the gender of some posters.
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krs
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posted on June 27, 2001 05:28:46 AM new
And you've all been so mean to me.
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Hjw
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posted on June 27, 2001 06:30:49 AM new
And, after all our naive faith and trust, what disilusionment!
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krs
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posted on June 27, 2001 07:05:04 AM new
disillusionment
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NearTheSea
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posted on June 27, 2001 07:07:16 AM new
I don't remember a newly laid egg being squooshy, but then I never stuck my hand under the hens ass.
And if that was the only chore you had when you were a little girl, you should consider yourself lucky.
[email protected]
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krs
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posted on June 27, 2001 07:15:55 AM new
At age three.
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Hjw
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posted on June 27, 2001 07:16:51 AM new
NearTheSea 
I remember finding snakes sleeping in the chickens nest...another disillusionment...
Helen
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NearTheSea
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posted on June 27, 2001 07:27:47 AM new
Even at age 3, ya gotta start 'em young on the farm, I think what you got when you stuck your hand there is chicken sh*t
Helen, acck, no I never found snakes, that would be scary!
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Hjw
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posted on June 27, 2001 07:49:51 AM new
Yes, NearTheSea
First, the snakes eat the eggs and then curl up in the nest and go to sleep.
Now these are Mississippi snakes. They may have a different behavior code than snakes in your area.
After breakfast and a nap in the chicken house, then they slither on down to the pond.
Helen
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krs
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posted on June 27, 2001 08:08:26 AM new
Yep, ya gotta start 'em young.
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Hjw
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posted on June 27, 2001 08:10:05 AM new
To get back on topic...
There is a sort of tax cut, trickle down analogy here if you stretch your imagination.
Like big business, the snakes get the eggs or "gravy" and the farmer or "country" is left with only chicken droppings.
Helen
[ edited by Hjw on Jun 27, 2001 08:14 AM ]
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ZILvy
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posted on June 27, 2001 09:26:43 AM new
Whatever, the topic maybe, (krs a little girl)squooshy chicken eggs, snakes or whatever political subtitle...fact of the matter is if you take the egg from the chicken just as she lays it you are gonna have a paranoid chicken. First they make a big tadoo out of getting ready to lay *I can only imagine* there must be a little stress to this. Then once it is laid the cluck and fuss like *an old biddy hen* and roll it about with their beak until it is in just the right position for them to settle down on!
Take it away before they do that with no other egg in the nest....why you have never seen such anguish. Did it once, (I was in a hurry to gather all the eggs) NEVER did it agin...poor little hen!! And that is the truthhhh (I was five)!!
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Femme
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posted on June 27, 2001 10:10:18 AM new
"The Crying Game"????
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ZILvy
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posted on June 27, 2001 10:17:37 AM new
Femme
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Snowyegret
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posted on June 27, 2001 12:15:11 PM new
Oh the humanity!!!!!
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Borillar
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posted on June 27, 2001 12:32:16 PM new
O-Solo-Mio Metaphor;
Of Estrogen
And Testosterone by
Ergonomic catenations
I deplore.
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