Friday 22 February 2013

Farmyard Fridays #3: Why did the T-Rex cross the road?




So many T-Rex jokes, so little time. Poor fella. Funny how his tiny arms are cause for so much hilarity, but if he was human it would be completely un-PC and the sort of thing only Ricky Gervais and Frankie Boyle would tweet about. What’s more, I’d bet my Findus beef lasagne on the fact that nobody would be pointing and laughing if they actually came face to face with one.

Which leads me onto that other much maligned creature in jokes: the humble chicken. There are any number of embarrassingly terrible ‘why did the chicken…?’ jokes which would be simply too tedious to reproduce here. That’s all without mentioning the frankly hideous things both McDonalds and the Colonel do to chickens before covering them in batter and serving them up to drunken people who should know better. Somehow, chickens have become an animal it’s okay to laugh about, whilst horses are achieving some kind of saint-like status in our society.
But no more. Because I have some news. Admittedly not fresh off the press news, as this news was detailed in The Telegraph in April 2008: I’ve never claimed to be quick off the mark. This news however is something which may just blow your mind.
T-Rex. And chicken. Not a disaster waiting to happen, but in fact two ends of a rather large family tree.
Yes, chickens are one of the closest living relatives to Tyrannosaurus Rex, alongside ostriches. Now that you’ve thought about it, it does kind of make sense. Both of them walk in that slightly strange, I-may-be-about-fall-over kind of way; both of them have frankly cold, calculating, murderous eyes. And both of them have some pretty terrible jokes told about them. Which is where you came in.
Farmyard Fact #3: Chickens are the closest farmyard relative to Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Which makes this image a little more disturbing.
 
 

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