All that abseiling done in "Blood Fever"

[Melakon]

Wilbur, I think, named as a piglet by the landlord's daughter.

After the biting incident (some weeks after), it was given to a friend of the landlords, and I think it eventually wound up on someone's plate.

Landlord's ex-wife (who was still living with them at the time) was some crazy Cambodian woman who kept chickens and the pig in city limits, which is prohibited anyway. The trailer I was renting from them wasn't supposed to be there either, since it was some 70x12 mobile home. One day they told me I had to move into the main house because they'd been ordered to remove the trailer.

I was with that family for 8 years, and was so glad to finally get out of there and get my own place again.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Never really into Uhura intimately.

Saw a movie last night called After Hours (1985) and they were making fun of Roberta Lincoln from Assignment earth for being too old to be dooable.

"Jerks."

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I like older Uhura from the movies best. After that TOS Uhura and after that JJ Uhura.

Melakon did you at least get free eggs from the chickens?

 

[Melakon]

Melakon did you at least get free eggs from the chickens?

I didn't personally. There was no chicken coop, so the chickens would lay eggs wherever they could find a spot they thought was safe in the yard. The dog I had at the time loved eggs though, and sniffed out the nests, some of which were under my trailer in the chassis frame. He was always hunting for those eggs. I don't think any of the eggs survived long enough for baby chicks.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

In Aus you could get 6.50 for a dozen of those eggs. Being free range and all.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Really they could have just laid out comfortably on one of those floating stretchers from The Motion Picture and gently lowered themselves down the cliff.

Trek really falls apart if you look too closely (unsubtly points at videos in sig. Or at least I would if my phone had a down arrow button :-/)

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Really they could have just laid out comfortably on one of those floating stretchers from The Motion Picture and gently lowered themselves down the cliff.

The chickens?

 

[Guy Gardener]

At the Easter Show this year, they were selling live chickens for 5 dollars.

3 or 4 eggs a day (per chicken).

But you're basically converting a dollars worth of chicken feed (per chicken) into those eggs.

(How many days can you forget to feed them before they die?)

(Longer than you would think since Chickens are cannibals.)

So between 3 and 4 dollars for a dozen eggs, but your house is soaking in chicken shit.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

My neighbours have chickens. They go away a lot and I get to collect the eggs for my own consumption as long as the chickens don't die on my watch. This tiny bit of animal care has made me want chickens even less than I did before I actually interacted with chickens.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ If the chickens escaped, though, that would surely be...

(puts on sunglasses)

...poultry in motion.

YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Actually it would be a nice fox snack. Which is why they mustn't escape and why they are a pain in the ass

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

But if they do escape and are injured, particularly in bad weather, you've got to treat them. That would be a nice subject for a TV series, actually. Call it...Monsoon Poultry Hospital.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRpCceUx1U[/yt]

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I don't know why but the words monsoon poultry hospital make me think of that show China Beach which I can't remember if I ever watched.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ You probably did. Robert Picardo was in it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Young Dana Delaney?

I can't imagine not having that in my head on a slow loop somewhere near the back.