chicken and the art of flying

[happylanding]

SkyKing..........

Aw, heck, Happy, there's significant debate about whether CHUCK can fly!

.........Well he can....he just looks a little bit like a sunny sunday morning skc/nosig/ pilot!

[chuckar101]

Okay fireflyr I know some can move pretty quick  Iwas trying to refer to Pheasants and some of the game birds that are atually big enough to make a meal out of.  ANd as for doves I think chuckar still got them beat they can fly and run.

[fireflyr]

Okay fireflyr I know some can move pretty quick Iwas trying to refer to Pheasants and some of the game birds that are atually big enough to make a meal out of. ANd as for doves I think chuckar still got them beat they can fly and run.

You're right, it's tough to make a meal out of a dove or chukar.

[Turbomallard]

Okay fireflyr I know some can move pretty quick Iwas trying to refer to Pheasants and some of the game birds that are atually big enough to make a meal out of. ANd as for doves I think chuckar still got them beat they can fly and run.

You're right, it's tough to make a meal out of a dove or chukar.

Hence also the extiction of the Dodo... tasted great, couldn't fly! 

TM

[happylanding]

Hence also the extiction of the Dodo... tasted great, couldn't fly! 

Gosh, the dodo! How could I forget him?!?!? But if I'm not wrong (I remember I read something about him in history books) he was killed for the sake of being killed. If I'm not wrong the Spanish did not usually eat him. but it was a too easy prey. Sh&t, it's like shooting to the machine that makes clays fly....Easy shot, great waste....

[chuckar101]

I've head that too happy.  And I can understand why.  Floated on the ocean for a long time, find land your not familiar with.  Get bored and pissed your away from home.  I think I would pop some dodos just to have some fun.

[Frank N. O.]

Slightly off-topic, the story with Alice Cooper killing a chicken on stage was in fact done in the audience since a chicken was thrown on stage and he thought it could fly so he threw it up in the air but it plummeted into the crowd and that's how it happend. Would you believe he and Groucho Marx were actually friends?

Back on-topic, in Grand Theft Auto Vice City (ah I love the 80s) and San Andreas (not so great atmosphere) there is a small plane you can fly called, Dodo, it's clearly a Cessna 150 btw, both in wheel and float version, and sometimes the float-version just can't get enough speed to take-off, I think that's a glitch and not a deliberate programming though. In case anyone wonders then I am not at all a fan of violent authentic games like that, but I can tell the difference between real life and a game and I love the way you can walk, drive a car or bike and fly and listen to great music GTA SA even has a Firehawk! And a Harrier that can actually switch between vertical hoover and normal flight! Just too bad it's not possible to steer fully analogue

In Denmark we had an old bird species called Urfugl that was alive until just a few decades ago, I don't think it could fly either.

On the other hand, we got the Road Runner Meep Meep!

Frank

[happylanding]

Chuckar, I can easily see your point of view.
But i think that, even if it was to have fun, there was no.....effort! I do not know how to explain, but I think it was wicked to shot down every dodo just because they were easy targets.
But, yes, I probably love animals too much, to worry about one  that disappeared 4 centuries ago!!   

Back on-topic, in Grand Theft Auto Vice City (ah I love the 80s) and San Andreas (not so great atmosphere) there is a small plane you can fly called, Dodo.

Frank, that's cute and funny!!! so, if you can't fly, it's not your mistake, it's the airplane's!!!! 
You have beep beep in DK (you mean the enemy of Wyle E. Coyote? but he, he can fly? i always thought that that animal was an invention (stupid me!!!!).
How is it called in real life?

BTW, do you guys know a way to quote more messages in the same single text?!?!?

[chuckar101]

No Worries happy, know a few die hard animal lovers myself.  And sorry if I ever offend you, being a country boy over here in the U.S. grew up on hunting and fishing.  And your right they shouldn't of just wiped them out but controlled the population like we do now.

[happylanding]

No Worries happy, know a few die hard animal lovers myself.  And sorry if I ever offend you, being a country boy over here in the U.S. grew up on hunting and fishing.  And your right they shouldn't of just wiped them out but controlled the population like we do now.

Well, maybe it's just that today we have more knowledge....they neither knew that the world was as we know it is today, so imagine if they could think about destroying a kind of not flyable big turkey! I never went hunting, and you can see why, but I have a kind of worship for clay shooting and I often do it! On the contrary, I'll tell you that I went just once fishing with my dad: as soon as he was putting the fishes in the bucket, I was sorting them out, live and free again. He did not let me go with him anymore!!!! 
But to be honest til the last, I'm a strange kind of animal lover. I could never kill, but I disposed of my former dog....so you see?!?!?! 

[chuckar101]

Well catch and release fishing is the best anyway.  Get all the thrills of the catch and then let them go to catch them again.  Although I must admit that I keep a few to eat every once in awhile.  I'm also an avid clay shooter and try to shoot as much as possible.  And with the dog, I'm sorry I've put a few pets down myself but it was always cause there was no other way to help them.  And again sorry if I ever offended you about the hunting.

[happylanding]

Well catch and release fishing is the best anyway.  Get all the thrills of the catch and then let them go to catch them again.  Although I must admit that I keep a few to eat every once in awhile.  I'm also an avid clay shooter and try to shoot as much as possible.  And with the dog, I'm sorry I've put a few pets down myself but it was always cause there was no other way to help them.  And again sorry if I ever offended you about the hunting.

Oh my!!! No, my dear, do not worry, I do not get offended so easily.
Hunting is a reality and I can't and wouldn't just close my eyes and pretend it doesn't exist and oblige who likes doing it, to stop! it would be insane! 

[Ted_Stryker]

Well catch and release fishing is the best anyway.  Get all the thrills of the catch and then let them go to catch them again.  Although I must admit that I keep a few to eat every once in awhile.  I'm also an avid clay shooter and try to shoot as much as possible.  And with the dog, I'm sorry I've put a few pets down myself but it was always cause there was no other way to help them.  And again sorry if I ever offended you about the hunting.

Hmm... when does clay come in season??   

[fireflyr]

Hmm... when does clay come in season??

Ted, I think clay season is open year round but it seems they are hard to BBQ if shot in winter---don't know if they taste better if shot in summer---I've been too busy to find out!

[chuckar101]

They're good year round.  The best eating is when there dust.