Three-legged Chicken

"Protection"*

*One day during cooking class, the teacher,
Mrs. Pritchard, was extolling her secrets for
preparing perfect sauces. When she ordered
us to the stoves to prepare our assignments,
she said, "Don't forget to use wooden spoons."

As I stirred my sauce, I contemplated the
physics behind the mystery of the wooden
spoon and decided it must have something
to do with heat conduction. I approached
Mrs. Pritchard to test my theory.

"Why wooden spoons?" I asked.

"Because," she replied, "if I have to sit here
listening to all your metal spoons banging
against metal pots, I'd go nuts."

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"Three-legged Chicken"*

*Bernard was driving along a country road when
and realized he had to make a phone call. He
was miles from a pay phone so he decided to stop
in at the next farmhouse he found.

As he was approaching a house he noticed a
three-legged chicken racing along the road. He
followed the chicken and clocked it at 40 m.p.h.

Well, when Bernie got to the farmhouse he asked
the farmer about this wonderful chicken.

The farmer replied, "Well now, when I was at the
college I took up a studyin' at there gee-netics.
'Round here we love chicken and we're all mighty
partial to the drumstick, so I thought I'd see if I
could make me a three-legged chicken. So, there 'tis."

Now Bernie was quite impressed. He asked, "How does it taste?"

The farmer replied, "Well, that's the durndest thing.
Ah don't know. Ain't none of us been able to ketch
one a the varmits yet."
Received on Thu Nov 27 07:58:33 2008