Went downstairs to get some lunchy stuff with a workmate. Said workmate and I were discussing something, which became a discussion of fruit trees, which became a discussion of chickens and whether they can fly or not.

I had chickens, I owned some, as pets (two turkeys too), and they freakin flew. They would fly onto the roof, into the trees, across to the other yard (to be consumed by neighbor dogs unfortunately). He will not accept this, and swears that chickens are flightless.

Now, this is what really burns me. As soon as we get in, he loudly asks everyone around whether chickens fly. Now, the fact that I wouldn't accept the opinions of techies who have never owned chickens, caused him to go into a deeper, crazed web search into the facts as to whether chickens can fly. This led to heated discusion about chicken flight, the difference between suustained flight, sustained gliding, and relativity, and even calls to The Future Farmers of America and to Ontario Chicken Chicken Farms in Ontario, Canada. He fuckin called Canada! He looked up an old friend that worked on a chicken farm.

Perhaps chickens aren't known to fly very well, and most kinds cannot perform sustained flight relative to other types of birds, but they are a bird, and their wings were designed for flight. But chickens are not a flightless bird.

So now, this individual has exclaimed to all to hear that obviously, since they, and the people that he spoke to, do not know chickens to fly, that somehow this means that everyone but me knows for a fact that they don't fly.

One thing to note, everyone else here already think that he's a tool and a freak for spending so much time and energy trying to prove a point. Noone listens to him, they generally just nod so he'll go away.

The Wright Brothers (Kitty Hawk, NC, 1903) would have kicked his ass if we all followed his logic though.

E. A. D.