Free the Cavan five thousand-Poultry in Motion

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15/12/2005, 5:34 PM
hamish

Free the Cavan five thousand-Poultry in Motion

Anyone see this on RTE news this evening? Magnificent attempts by RTE reporters to keep a straight face throughout the segment.

RTE

Co Cavan road re-opens after accident

15 December 2005 16:43

The N55 between Ballinagh, Co Cavan, and Granard, Co Longford, has reopened following an accident earlier today.

More than 5,000 chickens were spilled into the carriageway from a lorry, creating dangerous driving conditions.

A crane was brought in to remove the lorry, and a second truck was put in place to remove the poultr

Eggs had broken in the carriageway, and some of the chickens were laying there.

Diversions were in place for a time along the adjacent regional routes which are narrower and more hazardous. All restrictions have since been lifted.

:D :D

Ths is bound to be a pun-filled thread..........Help yourselves.:D
15/12/2005, 6:00 PM
dancinpants

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirhamish

between Ballinagh, Co Cavan, and Granard, Co Longford,

No pun, but talk about a "rock and a hard place" :eek:
15/12/2005, 6:01 PM
dfx-

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirhamish

More than 5,000 chickens were spilled

Did they pour out of the truck?:eek: :D
15/12/2005, 6:05 PM
Bald Student

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirhamish

Eggs had broken in the carriageway, and some of the chickens were laying there.

It must be terrible for the workers to clear a section of the road of eggs only to turn around and find the chickens had laid some more.
15/12/2005, 6:14 PM
hamish

Certainly gives a new meaning to the term "lay-by".:D
15/12/2005, 6:22 PM
dancinpants

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirhamish

More than 5,000 chickens were spilled

Quote:

Originally Posted by d f x-

Did they pour out of the truck?:eek: :D

What you quoted was meant to say:

Quote:

More than 5,000 chickensoups were spilled
15/12/2005, 6:26 PM
dfx-

You mean there could be a shortage of chicken soup over Winter....?!:eek:

I like chicken soup....

*panics*;)
15/12/2005, 6:27 PM
hamish

Quote:

Originally Posted by dancinpants

What you quoted was meant to say:

Fowl, most fowl, dancinpants.:o
15/12/2005, 6:41 PM
strangeirish

Why didn't the chicken cross the road?
15/12/2005, 6:58 PM
hamish

Dammit, I should have called the thread title

Poultry in Motion.:D

Thinking of getting coat.:o
15/12/2005, 7:13 PM
strangeirish

They will have to work around the cluck to clean up that mess. The driver was hendicapped. All those eggsplosions and all.:D :eek: :rolleyes:
15/12/2005, 7:34 PM
strangeirish

At first, the police saw a 4 door sedan leaving the scene, but later found out it was a coupe!
15/12/2005, 7:52 PM
R�iteoir

Garda� have ruled out Fowl Play

Some reports say the driver was egged on by some schoolchildren
15/12/2005, 8:16 PM
sligoman

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirhamish

Dammit, I should have called the thread title

Poultry in Motion.:D

Consider it done my presidente;).
15/12/2005, 8:26 PM
hamish

Quote:

Originally Posted by sligoman

Consider it done my presidente;).

Ah Jaysus, thank you Sligoman, no eggsaggeration (honk), you're a gentleman personifried (honk).

I'd say that Ken Shabby will be pleased when this thread is ova (honk)

eh........scrambling (honk) for coat before I suffer assault and battery (honk)

:D
15/12/2005, 8:34 PM
R�iteoir

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirhamish

Ah Jaysus, thanks you Sligoman, no eggsaggeration (honk), you're a gentleman personifried (honk).

I'd say that Ken Shabby will be pleased when this thread is ova.

eh........scrambling (honk) for coat before I suffer assault and battery (honk)

:D

Looks like he's flown the coop
15/12/2005, 8:47 PM
hamish

Quote:

Originally Posted by R�iteoir

Looks like he's flown the coop

:D :D

Where did you pluck that quip from????

Did you and strangeirish hatch a plan to do it?

Hand gripping coat collar.:D
15/12/2005, 9:00 PM
dancinpants

In 6 months time I can just picture it. At a dinner table somewhere between Cavan and Longford, a young lad staring up from his plate, "Ah jaysus, not fookin' chicken tonight AGAIN mammy!!"
15/12/2005, 11:08 PM
Thunderblaster

I'm sure that a Kentucky Fried Chicken premises can be built at the eggsident site so that there will be a permanent henmorial to the scene of the fowl tragedy. I'm sure that all the cocks will rejoice in glory!!:D
15/12/2005, 11:17 PM
hamish

Is it true they're changing the name Cavan to Cavian.:confused:

Putting coat on shoulder...............:D
16/12/2005, 8:27 AM
Block G Raptor

Why did the chicken cross the road

to get to the other 4,999
16/12/2005, 1:54 PM
hamish

I've just discovered what we're doing here. It's called Paronomasia:eek: Sounds like some psychotic disorder or something associated with those bondage clubs.

"Paronomasia is a the most common type of pun. It makes use of words that sound similar to other words, but which have different meanings."

In Totty watch we'd call that Pornomasia.:D

I then found all these, some well known, others........well.........let's just say when I read through some of the stranger ones, my two remaining brain cells screamed, "Danger, Danger, Overload, Shutdown".. LOL

Here's the list:
http://www.badpuns.com/list.php?section=dictionary

Have a look at them.........words like "Feghoot", "Antanaclasis", something called a "Tom Swifty" or "Syllepsis".:eek:

Aren't these the types of words you'd hear from members of the legal profession such as lawyers, magistrates AKA "beaks" (honk) and certainly not us ...........eh.........lay-men. (boom boom)