Chicken: Chicken chicken chicken chicken

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Chicken chicken chicken chicken.

Chicken chicken.

(Chicken Chicken Chicken)

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cholten99

Partial credit must go to Jack Maclaren and Pat Spacek (of the awesome Parking Lot is Full) for this all-too-similar comic back in 1996.
- Anonymous
  
  I was just about to post said comic. It was the first thing I thought of.
Dave Faris

Chckn chckn chckn chckn chckn chckn chckn chckn chckn. Chckn chckn chckn.
pjcamp

Jeez, is this going around the horn again?

Ok, well, there’s also a paper:

http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
sfaires

Holy crap that is funny! Asthma attack-inducing funny *wheeze*. Even funnier when you go through the actual ppt. Thanks for posting!
Anonymous

10/30 comments of mindless repetition, and it just gets funnier every time

11/31 comments of mindless repetition, and it just gets funnier every time

12/32 comments of mindless repetition, and it just gets funnier every time

… no it doesn’t
- Milo
  
  Chicken, chicken. Chicken CHICKEN chicken chicken. Chicken: chic. Ken. Chicken? Chicken.
Jake0748

Eat mor Chikken
David Llopis

This is what an industry bubble sounds like just before bursting.
Also Beaker.
Anonymous

i love having flashblock. it provides so many terse postings with perfect mystery. (my favorite is: “check this out!”)
- http://maggiekb.com/ Maggie Koerth-Baker
  
  I think, in this case, you’ll find that the description is quite clear. There’s even a video link!
  - pidg
    
    Chicken chicken chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chicken.
d913

Ha ha. After three days of AAAS, for instance, this is what all the talks begin to sound like. Complete with differential equations slide if anyone asks a question.
MelSkunk

Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarbhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb!
Anonymous

Best TED Talk ever.
SRChiP

Sounds like, http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/AAAAA
Anonymous

Waiter: Malkovich?
John Malkovich: MALKOVICH!
Waiter: Malkovich.
Anonymous

What am I missing here?
- http://maggiekb.com/ Maggie Koerth-Baker
  
  A brilliant multi-parody of the overuse of jargon, bad Powerpoint Presentations, and mind-numbingly repetitive echo chambers.
nixiebunny

Chicken! Chicken chicken.
Anonymous

Chicken chicken: chicken.
johnnyuber

PIG!
- andyhavens
  
  Troll.
  - johnnyuber
    
    My full rebuttal … http://goo.gl/iRWdF
Jorpho

My favorite part was the bit about the chicken.
Anonymous

http://youtu.be/8N7-wRWg7FU
pfooti

Actual link to the powerpoint:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/orgs/student-affairs/gsc/offices/old/433/PoCSi43302/papers/dougz.ppt
ikonografer

uh…sorry guys, it’s ‘chikin’, not ‘chicken’. geez. the intertubes is just ruining spelling…
CLamb

I must object to the highly speciesist tone of this presentation. It should include the viewpoint of at least one chicken.
Tim

CHICKEN!!
Anonymous

Powerpoints can be far worse. My cow-orkers love to cram as much as possible onto each slide. 10 point fonts and zero whitespace.
Gainclone

… Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo?
- Mujokan
  
  Justin Bieber recently addressed the unfortunate frequency of buffalo buffaloing that happens in Buffalo.
Ugly Canuck

An item most fowl.
Anonymous

Experienced deja vu with this when I saw Lauren Manning’s repeated-words visualisation of food intake:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenmanning/5658952561/in/set-72157626586750924/
Presumably it begins with “chicken” 295 times, but I’m too lazy to count.
Mike L

What…is chicken?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation
apollo18

Chicken, chicken. Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken.

Chicken,
-Chicken.
Felton / Moderator

Cornflakes, cornflakes cornflakes cornflakes cornflakes cornflakes cornflakes cornflakes cornflakes cornflakes.
jrtom

link to the paper: http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

As a one-time academic, my personal favorite part of this is the audience question at the end, which results in the presenter pulling out the backup slides.

(Seen at work recently: “if you say ‘semantic satiation’ over and over, does it lose all meaning?”)
- Felton / Moderator
  
  Links to the paper and Powerpoint are already included. Didn’t you read Maggie’s description above? (heehee)
Anonymous

This is actual a parody of a famous case about chickens that is read in most first year Contracts law classes.
ehuelga

Badger badger badger.
- chgoliz
  
  Badger Badger Badger
  
  How long before Weebl does another video, to dishonor this wonderful and informative presentation by parodying it?
- Anonymous
  
  MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
Yamara

I knew this would happen if they cross-bred junglefowls.

The mad fools.
Alex

Beanie Baby Beanie Baby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llNAsoF64Ng
Anonymous

I’m glad that I’m not the only one to see the link to The Parking Lot Is Full. I hadn’t thought of that comic in two years probably, but I recognized it as soon as I saw the original paper that this talk was based on. I’m still sorry it died…
johnnyaction

I feel I must elucidate on slide 9.

Chicken, chicken, chicken?
Chicken!
meatbee

Dude, The Parking Lot is Full.

http://plif.courageunfettered.com/archive/wc072.gif
Anonymous

EGG!
zalcapone

Who’d have thought the world needed poultry ‘lorem ipsum’.
shadowfirebird

Werk, werk, werk.

You guys are no fun.
olmsteader

Banana muffin, banana muffin. Muffin muffin banana, muffin banana muffin, muff banana muffin. Bananana muff muff, banana, banana, banana.
-Muffin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gFWcx78zgY