Please, no more threads about chicken.

[Renew Deal]

I am trying to keep a sense of humor about this, so please bear with me.

I have instructed the moderators to lock new threads about chicken. If you must discuss chicken -- and, yes, I understand it is a *vitally* important topic in which you all have an intense interest -- please do so in one of the threads that was opened previously. Here's a good one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3496148

Go post in there. Or post here.

I think that some of you are well aware that the discussions about chicken are not about chicken at all. The purpose of these threads is to dig up an old flame war and wave it in the faces of certain people, because you want to get under their skin. To their credit, those people have not taken the bait. But we really think that a dozen threads on a topic specifically intended to bait people is really enough.

But now we are in a completely idiotic death-spiral of enforcement and boundaries-testing. The mods lock a thread, and then three spring up. And so the purpose of starting threads about chicken is no longer about tweaking a few of your fellow DUers, it's now about tweaking the moderators.

And then I get incredulous emails from people who are shocked, shocked that discussion of chicken -- chicken fercryinoutloud -- is not allowed. As if the discussion of chicken is something that is vitally important and that everyone is really interested in.

So please, if you really need to discuss chicken, do it in one of the threads that is already open on the subject. But please stop posting new threads about chicken or turkey or whatever. I know it's really fun to tweak people, especially when those people are the moderators, but I think it's time to find to something else fun to do.

Thank you for your understanding.

Skinner
DU Admin

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3499154

[KMOD]

1. From what I've gathered, it wasn't the chicken,

it was the breading.

Corn flakes are apparently very controversial.

[pinboy3niner]

2. *thigh*

We have better things to do than worry about your mere, poultry concerns.

[Baitball Blogger]

48. The strangest ideas hatch from your imagination.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

65. Way to pass the buck-buck-buck, there, fella.

[nolabear]

3. I'm sure you're just egging them on, Skinner.

[MADem]

29. Skinner didn't lay this egg--it's a repost of an old OP from DU2! nt

[pinboy3niner]

30. I cackled

[MADem]

31. I know I've said this before, but you're the punniest guy around--a real good egg!!

You always keep your sunny side up, which is why you're so beloved!!

[Action_Patrol]

4. This whole issue is fowl

[petronius]

5. You know, if Skinner dredges up and pins the old yellow

"Fun Time Is Over" banner, it'll be your fault...

[pinboy3niner]

6. Kudzu BE more retro?

I may have to go to Olive Garden and ponder on a list of classic DU threads. I don't have a pit bull, but I suppose I could rent one since I'm not breast-feeding.

[Renew Deal]

7. I saw a reference in some old threads to "yak's"

I don't remember that old trend.

[pinboy3niner]

9. They were probably victims of the moon bombing

The yak colony was doing so well, too.

[hifiguy]

63. I was one of the clucks

who always posted yak pics in the lounge back when I was MN_ChimpH8r.

[PeaceNikki]

8. lol, thanks for that. some of my favorite DUers from days gone by in there.

Several of which I'm honored to call my good friends now.

[Brother Buzz]

10. Even dancing chickens?

[pinboy3niner]

11. I stand with the chickens!

[Renew Deal]

12. lol

[pinboy3niner]

13. The sky really IS falling!

[BainsBane]

14. What happens when you cross Donald Trump with a chicken?

[Hekate]

15. Mmmmm. Easter Peeps.

Eggzackly

[pinboy3niner]

16. Have you no compassion for the victims of the War on Easter?

Oh, the Peepmanity!

[kydo]

50. LOL my eyes the peep carnage oh the chickenery

I will need therapy for life now, thanks. Every time I close my eyes I will see slaughtered dead peeps.

The backdrop photos were pretty impressive. But the red blood was so fake. Peeps blood is white or what ever the inside squashy stuff color is.

Still LOL over this. Crap my side hurts.

[pinboy3niner]

17. It's about time someone broasted the subject!

[yuiyoshida]

18. BEGIN Japanology - Chickens and Eggs

[pinboy3niner]

19. I KNEW I shouldn't have clucked on this thread

[jobycom]

20. What's all this flap about?

[pinboy3niner]

21. Pecky, pecky pecky

[jobycom]

22. Don't get your feathers ruffled.

[pinboy3niner]

23. Why can't you keep abreast of this like the rest of us?

Are you fried?

[merrily]

25. You are the ruler of puns.

JMO

[pinboy3niner]

26. No whey!

I get topped here all the time, yet the undeserved rep still sticks.

[merrily]

46. Still schticks?

Never mind. The only time I come up with good puns is when I am not trying. Then I have to decide whether to go with the wording that occurred to me first (i.e., the pun) or come up with new wording.

[jobycom]

27. Dude, beat it. I'm starting to feel battered here.

[pinboy3niner]

28. Sorry. Far be it from me to crow or count coop.

[pipi_k]

54. Sorry, I don't compreHENd

[merrily]

24. I wish I knew the background of the chicken and Olive Garden references.

Then again, maybe I don't.

[PeaceNikki]

33. Cliffs Notes:

There was a flame fest about cooking fried chicken with a cornflake coating. One person was APPALLED at such a suggestion and started the mess.

The Olive Garden thing started when someone said they would be visiting Manhattan, asked for restaurant recommendations and Radio Lady suggested it.

[Warren DeMontague]

36. It was a proxy war for the snobs verus the classless vulgarians, I take it.

The Queen Elizabeth crowd versus the Cousin Eddies.

[PeaceNikki]

37. Radio Lady could turn a thread about puppies into a flame war.

Some of her other greats included but weren't limited to children on leashes and Asian woodcrafters.

[Warren DeMontague]

38. Heh, I hear that.

I was appalled by the children on leashes thing... until I had kids of my own.

I never put them on a leash, but -particularly in a big, crowded public space- I grok how it happens.

[Orrex]

39. Wow.

I had completely forgotten about her, at least by name.

What an example.

[PeaceNikki]

42. There was a relatively recent thread about her. She passed away last summer.

It was a sad story, she was obviously a tortured soul who never found peace.

[Orrex]

43. I'll have to look for that one.

I was in her final TS thread, but I never knew what happened to her thereafter.

[PeaceNikki]

47. Found it...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018732943

[merrily]

45. Sorry to learn about that, both the tortured soul and the passing.

[merrily]

44. Thank you.

[get the red out]

32. I missed out on the chicken

How did I not hear the dinner bell?

[JHB]

34. Vewy well. Duck season it is!

Hehehehehe.

[Orrex]

35. Can we still post about cocks?

[ScreamingMeemie]

40. Okay, the fun is over...

[Omaha Steve]

41. "Is that a chicken joke?

There goes talking about my Sunday dinner



http://www.webpan.com/thelaughin/home.htm

Snip: The show developed a loyal following eager for catchphrases such as "Verrrrry interestink . . . but stupid", "Sock it to me", "Is that a chicken joke?" and "Here comes de judge".

[cwydro]

49. Last one into this thread

is a rotten egg.

[BeyondGeography]

51. Chicken?

[WilliamPitt]

52. My brain just died.

The fact that you actually had to post this thread...

---> <--- !!!!

[Renew Deal]

57. I was looking for the "OK, the fun is over" thread last night and found this one.

I couldn't make it past "I have instructed the moderators" without hysterically laughing.

[NuclearDem]

53. Truly a moment in DU history that I just do not fucking get.

[salin]

56. what did I miss (yesterday? this am?) that brought the chicken

threads back up to multiply like rabbits?

[Renew Deal]

59. My wandering mind

I was looking for the "OK, the fun is over" thread last night and found this one. I couldn't get through it without hysterically laughing. It is classic.

[salin]

73. It was pretty funny. Though at the time - a few folks really got their noses bent out of place.

And periodically something triggers it's renewal. Just wondering what the trigger to make the hunt for the thread? Some story - or some OP that was reminiscent to the great chicken debate?

Thanks for responding.

[In_The_Wind]

55. Can we discuss Chicken Fried Bacon?

[hifiguy]

64. The logical question is can you also have

bacon-fried chicken?

[pinboy3niner]

67. Ever hear of the classic recipe for Maryland Fried Chicken?

It's traditionally oven-fried after the breaded chicken pieces have been drizzled with bacon drippings.

[hifiguy]

68. I stand with Homer

[In_The_Wind]

70. Of course you can. It's yummy.

[KamaAina]

58. Well, that's certainly a feather in your cap.

[KamaAina]

60. I agree. The topic has completely flown the coop.

[KamaAina]

61. I guess the yolk's on us

[KamaAina]

62. What about Chick-fil-A?

I mean, they're still a bunch of vile homophobic bigots.

[Oilwellian]

66. I dream of a world...

[tishaLA]

69. Memories....light the corners of my mind....

nothingshocksmeanymore! I miss her!

[lindysalsagal]

71. You mean, this chicken?

He's just doing what comes naturally!

[Liberal_in_LA]

72. omg. that is a real thread. I though you were doing a parody of skinner