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Nearly Sane

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The ghost chicken of Highgate
« on: October 23, 2018, 04:54:58 PM »
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2018, 07:59:21 PM »
Ghost chickens?
I don't know feather to believe that or not!
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2018, 10:24:18 PM »
Cock-a-doodle-wooooooo!
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2018, 08:38:24 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 23, 2018, 04:54:58 PM
I feel like ghost chicken tonight

https://mentalfloss.com/article/560789/scientific-spirit-sir-francis-bacon-and-ghost-chicken-highgate


I have seen a number of what appeared to be apparitions in my time, but never one of a chicken. :D
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2018, 10:01:10 AM »
Quote from: Littleroses on October 24, 2018, 08:38:24 AM

I have seen a number of what appeared to be apparitions in my time, but never one of a chicken. :D
It might have been a chicken in disguise though?
Those ghost chickens can be devious!
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2018, 10:05:59 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 23, 2018, 04:54:58 PM
I feel like ghost chicken tonight

https://mentalfloss.com/article/560789/scientific-spirit-sir-francis-bacon-and-ghost-chicken-highgate



Now, if you could market 'em, think of the possibilities for slimmers foods.
Invisible nuggets?
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2018, 10:11:22 AM »
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2018, 12:12:12 PM »
Quote from: Sebastian Toe on October 24, 2018, 10:01:10 AM
It might have been a chicken in disguise though?
Those ghost chickens can be devious!

You mean the ones having the appearance of a monk, girl and boy? :D The shadow of a monk even appeared in the window of a photo I took of our previous home.
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2018, 01:22:03 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on October 24, 2018, 12:12:12 PM
You mean the ones having the appearance of a monk, girl and boy? :D The shadow of a monk even appeared in the window of a photo I took of our previous home.
Yes, those ones exactly.
The chameleon ghost chicken can do all of that.
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2018, 02:27:38 PM »
Quote from: Sebastian Toe on October 24, 2018, 01:22:03 PM
Yes, those ones exactly.
The chameleon ghost chicken can do all of that.

How very clever. :D
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2018, 03:02:54 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on October 24, 2018, 02:27:38 PM

Didn't you suspect any fowl play in action?
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2018, 03:06:51 PM »
Quote from: Sebastian Toe on October 24, 2018, 03:02:54 PM
Didn't you suspect any fowl play in action?

Actually we did consider it was a hoax but couldn't work out how it was perpetrated as some of it occurred before our eyes, and that of others.
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2018, 03:15:49 PM »
Was there any appearance of a parson's nose?.
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2018, 03:21:51 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 24, 2018, 03:15:49 PM
Was there any appearance of a parson's nose?.
Would you expecked there to be any?
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #14 on: October 24, 2018, 03:43:21 PM »
Quote from: Sebastian Toe on October 24, 2018, 03:21:51 PM
Would you expecked there to be any?
I was going out on a wing.
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #15 on: October 24, 2018, 04:03:41 PM »
Cock-a-doodle doo this thread has lost its shoe.
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #16 on: October 24, 2018, 04:08:18 PM »
Better leg it while we still can
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #17 on: October 24, 2018, 04:25:32 PM »
Before the drumsticks start playing a tune.
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #18 on: October 24, 2018, 04:46:50 PM »
I'll make a clean breast of it, I only really put this up as a yolk, but I am sure I will get roasted for it
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #19 on: October 24, 2018, 04:48:35 PM »
That ghost chicken must be turning in its gravy by now.
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2018, 04:49:59 PM »
Stuff you all, trying to be sage and Littlerosemary.
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #21 on: October 24, 2018, 05:07:55 PM »
Feathers to right of them, 
Feathers to left of them,     
Feathers behind them 
The butcher has blundered
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #22 on: October 24, 2018, 07:51:02 PM »
If there was a ghost chicken, its presence can be proved by the existence of quantities of eggtoplasm.
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #23 on: October 24, 2018, 08:02:59 PM »
And one should be especially wary of poultrygeists.
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Re: The ghost chicken of Highgate
« Reply #24 on: October 24, 2018, 08:06:31 PM »
If you do spot a ghost chicken then you can count yourself as very clucky.
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