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Why did the chicken cross the road? ’Cause its house has been bombed by the Russians. Leave him alone he’s only a chicken! ... Sorry, not chicken – Chechen. Lee Mack, on stage
Name six ways we’re better than chickens. George Carlin, More Napalm & Silly Putty
If you count your chickens before they have hatched, they won’t lay an egg in the basket. Bobby Robson
The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that a more refined view as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken. Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy, 1912
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. Henry IV of France
Go to Old Delhi, behind the Jama Masjid, and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundreds of pale hens and brightly coloured roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages ... They see the organs of their brothers lying around them. They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country. Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger pp173-174
Do you want a leg or a breast? To Catch a Thief 1955 starring Cary Grant & Grace Kelly & Jessie Royce Landis & John Williams & Charles Vanel & Brigitte Auber & Jean Martinelli & Georgette Anys et al, director Alfred Hitchcock
For ten years I’ve been in the chicken business, and I know everything about chickens. How to buy ’em and sell ’em and breed ’em and feed ’em. I even know how to talk to ‘em … I said, I’m gonna open a coffee house. (GBH Films & Chicken & Coffee) The Troublemaker 1964 starring Tom Aldredge & Joan Darling & James Frawley & Theodore J Flicker & Buck Henry & Charles White & Godfrey Cambridge & Bernard Reed & Michael Currie & Leo Lerman et al, director Theodore J Flicker
For the embassy’s diplomats there’s one issue they cannot keep out of the public eye – American chlorinated chicken. It’s been off the menu in the UK for 20 years. Inside the American Embassy III, Channel 4 2018
The number one dietary source of cholesterol in America is chicken. Dr Joel Kahn, cited What the Health, Netflix 2017
I want you to be a chicken. I want you to feel it. I want you to transform into a chicken. The Gentlemen II: Tackle Tommy Woo Woo, Tommy to Freddy, Netflix 2024