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imurhuckleberry Donating Member (155 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 08:03 PM
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Chicken costumes banned at Nevada polling places after Lowden's chicken quip
Source: Hartford Courant

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Voters dressed in chicken costumes won't be allowed inside Nevada polling places this year.

State election officials on Friday added chicken suits to the list of banned items after weeks of ridicule directed at Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden.

The millionaire casino executive and former beauty queen recently suggested that people barter with doctors for medical care, like when "our grandparents would bring a chicken to the doctor."

Democrats responded by setting up a website, "Chickens for Checkups," and by sending volunteers in chicken suits to her campaign events.

Read more: http://www.courant.com/news/nation-world/sns-ap-us-odd-voting-chicken-costumes,0,5896390.story
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 08:05 PM
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1. lololololol
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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 08:05 PM
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2. Can they dress as roosters
or other barnyard animals?
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 08:08 PM
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7. Turkeys would seem appropriate nt
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Cirque du So-What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:44 PM
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26. Roosters are chickens too
A brief tutorial:

GEORGE: This is delicious, Mrs. Ross.

MRS. ROSS: Oh.

MR. ROSS: What are you complimenting her for? She didn't make it Rowenna did.

FRANK: What is this thing anyway?

MRS. ROSS: It's Cornish gamehen.

FRANK: What is that, like a little chicken?

GEORGE: It's, uh, it's not a little chicken. Little chicken. It's

a gamebird.

FRANK: Gamebird?

GEORGE: Yeah.

FRANK: What do you mean? Like, you - you hunt it?

MR. ROSS: Yes.

FRANK: How hard could it be to kill this thing?

ESTELLE: I couldn't help but notice that you have quite a library in there.

MRS. ROSS: If I had a dime for every book he's actually read, I'd

be broke.

SUSAN: More wine anyone?

FRANK: Yeah. I'll take some.

SUSAN: Hmmm?

FRANK: Thank you.

SUSAN: How do you like the Merlot?

ESTELLE: Merlot? I never heard of it. Did they just invent it?

MRS. ROSS: Oh, mother.

GEORGE: She's, uh, she's heard of Merlot.

FRANK: Let me understand, you got the hen, the chicken and the rooster. The

rooster goes with the chicken. So, who's having sex with the hen?

GEORGE: Why don't we talk about it another time.

FRANK: But you see my point here? You only hear of a hen, a rooster and a

chicken. Something's missing!

MRS. ROSS: Something's missing all right.

MR. ROSS: They're all chickens. The rooster has sex with all of them.

FRANK: That's perverse.
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Happyhippychick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 08:06 PM
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3. Can't believe those mothercluckers banned the costumes.
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 05:14 AM
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49. LOL
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brewens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 08:07 PM
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6. Next they'll ban guys in carrot suits at Boehner events! n/t
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 08:10 PM
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8. And loons at Bachmann events
:)
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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 08:11 PM
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9. They make Bachman costumes now
Who knew
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 08:12 PM
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11. Well, it's only 5 months 'til Halloween nt
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:09 PM
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16. i pulled out my shoot'emin thefacedick costume out of the drawer this am
It's a black shirt with a glowinthedark jackolantern jacklelatern in his case.
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 02:10 AM
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42. I think you mean "JACKAL-lantern"
'Cause for Cheney, only an animal that is both a predator and a scavenger will do. (And, according to wiki, "In other languages, the same word is sometimes used to describe the behavior of persons who try to scavenge scraps from the misfortunes of others....")

But a GLOW-IN-THE-DARK Cheney-jackal-lantern? Now that's just downright sick and scary at the same time. :puke: :scared:

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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 08:12 PM
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10. they are not banning them from events. they are banning from polling places
electioneering and all that. people are free to wear chicken suits, loon suits, carrot suits whenever and wherever they like. just not in the polling place.
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:41 PM
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23. Now that's funny.
Have people actually been doing that?
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quakerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 12:38 AM
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39. Never happen
Far too high a chance they would make a mistake and block him from his own events
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 08:35 PM
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12. What about real chickens?
Can they bring pet chickens with them?
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 08:54 PM
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13. Bartering chickens for someone's vote is not allowed
But, according to Lowden, you can bring them to you doctor and get X number of chickens worth of health care. :)
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:12 PM
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17. How long has this been going on? I don't have insurance and nobody told me I could pay w/chickens
Just picture hundreds of people showing up at their next doctor's or dentist's appointment with various livestock.

:rofl:
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:05 PM
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14. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
n/t
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TheEuclideanOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:35 PM
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22. It's all fun and games until somebody has to go to jail wearing a chicken suit
and believe me you don't want to be THAT guy! I can tell you that from experience.
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MurrayDelph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 12:39 AM
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40. at which point he will be wondering
"How do you get out of this chicken outfit?"
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FLyellowdog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:07 PM
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15. So will the "chickens" be forced to cross the road?
This still doesn't answer the proverbial question....:shrug:
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:48 PM
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28. Believe it or not, they actually WILL . . . REALLY!
According to the news story linked in the OP:

"Under the new rule, chicken costumes will be banned along with political buttons, shirts, hats and signs WITHIN 100 FEET of polling places." (Emphasis mine.)
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:14 PM
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18. Wtf? First Skinner bans threads about chickens, now these guys go and ban chicken suits?
What did those poor chickens ever do to anybody?
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:15 PM
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19. The chicken lady will never live this down
Ten years from now, people will still be going: "hey, aren't you that chicken lady?"
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:17 PM
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20. Next best thing, show up with some of these.


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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 10:34 PM
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33. Or this guy goes to the polls - he really is a chicken
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NBachers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 02:34 AM
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43. Aaaaah- I really like the Michael Meyers / KFC fusion
Frightening yet appropriate on so many levels
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:32 PM
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21. So, dress as a rooster. Or a giant egg. Oh, I know! A duck! n/t
Edited on Sat May-22-10 09:33 PM by Ian David
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cstanleytech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:42 PM
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24. Did they ban bringing buckets of KFC to? Cause if not *evil grin*
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tomm2thumbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:44 PM
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25. how will the GOP vote? they are all pretty much cocks afterall /nt
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:44 PM
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27. Can they wear t shirts with pictures of chickens?
Can you set up a fried chicken booth outside?
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:55 PM
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29. They only mentioned people....
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 10:17 PM
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31. LOL
There's always a loophole, isn't there? The costumed cat is hilarious! :rofl:
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mikelgb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 10:13 PM
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30. an actual lol here
Edited on Sat May-22-10 10:15 PM by mikelgb
I want to wear a sheep costume to vote
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glinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 10:26 PM
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32. Hysterical!
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Zambero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 10:36 PM
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34. How about showing up at the polls as a medical doctor...
...white jacket, stethoscope, the whole 9 yards, wearing a badge that says "Will work for chickens" or "A checkup for a chicken" ???

No chicken suit, no display of support for a particular candidate. Should be OK!
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bertman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 12:24 AM
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37. That is frickin' HILARIOUS, Zambero.
:rofl: :rofl: :spray:

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sorcrow Donating Member (68 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 11:31 PM
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35. Look on the bright side....
You can still wear a chicken suit to vote in the other 49 states.
Can I dress as a crow?
Crow
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 12:11 AM
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36. A chicken coop d'etat!
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 04:02 PM
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48. LOL
Extra points for originality and cleverness. :rofl:
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 05:23 AM
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50. LOL
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bertman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 12:28 AM
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38. This thread should be available for everyone to read when they get too Serious!!
I haven't laughed this hard since the last time I went on the Wonkette.

:applause: :applause: :applause:

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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 06:55 AM
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45. you're so right
I was over on the pelicans dying from the gulf disaster, crying my eyes out. Now I'm laughing my head off!


Cher
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tinrobot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 12:52 AM
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41. Dress as Colonel Sanders
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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 05:41 AM
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44. Than go dressed as an egg. It came first anyway.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 07:29 AM
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46. OK, but what if someone standing in line just started singing, "I feel like chicken tonight..."?
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 01:39 PM
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47. ... while doing the "Chicken Dance"
:evilgrin:
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