I hear that geese really like being fed until their liver expands to quadruple size. They love it, in fact.
Did you get this factoid from the same place as your 1920s chicken statistics?
Who was the real power? The Captain? or Tenille?
Xander ,'Showtime'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Mar 07, 2007 10:21:34 am PST #5637 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Dana - Mar 07, 2007 10:28:02 am PST #5638 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
shrift! Did you know there's a secret QI pilot episode? In the sense that I had no idea it existed? WITH EDDIE IZZARD?
DavidS - Mar 07, 2007 10:29:40 am PST #5639 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Did you get this factoid from the same place as your 1920s chicken statistics?
Actually from a French farmer feeding his geese in a WSJ article years ago when they focused on the industry. I think the farmer may have had a vested interest in how the industry is perceived, however.
Not all my poultry reportage is meritless!
Daisy Jane - Mar 07, 2007 10:29:59 am PST #5640 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I thought the pilot was with Hugh Laurie!
IZZARD!?! I think this is what those SPN folks call failing.
Ailleann - Mar 07, 2007 10:30:07 am PST #5641 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
In which he could have been way funnier, I think... (or at least spoken up a bit more...)
Ditto to Hugh Laurie in the series 1 pilot.
Dana - Mar 07, 2007 10:31:07 am PST #5642 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I thought the pilot was with Hugh Laurie!
I'm telling you, it's a secret episode! The set is different and everything.
Daisy Jane - Mar 07, 2007 10:31:49 am PST #5643 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I'm mostly happy just to see him.
Jessica - Mar 07, 2007 10:33:47 am PST #5644 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
For some reason, not all restaurants have complied....
Very few, in fact. And the inspectors have been looking the other way because they have better things to do with their time than worry about whether or not 4-star restaurants are serving freaking FOIS GRAS.
There's some effort being made to push the same ban through in NYC, but it'll never happen. Too easy for reporters to go out to Long Island duck farms and watch the ducks race each other to the feeding tube for the "but it looks icky therefore it must be cruel!" crowd to have much of a voice.
tommyrot - Mar 07, 2007 10:37:09 am PST #5645 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There's some effort being made to push the same ban through in NYC, but it'll never happen. Too easy for reporters to go out to Long Island duck farms and watch the ducks race each other to the feeding tube for the "but it looks icky therefore it must be cruel!" crowd to have much of a voice.
So they're not force-fed?
DavidS - Mar 07, 2007 10:41:02 am PST #5646 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So they're not force-fed?
They have a feeding tube that runs the food straight to the stomach, but apparently the geese and ducks are food tube sluts.