[QUOTE=xilman;344291]Nope. There's no-one here but us chickens.[/QUOTE]
Paul, have you been carefully breeding with your hens to produce specially intelligent offspring? One of them appears to have hacked your account.

[QUOTE=xilman;344291]Nope. There's no-one here but us chickens.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Brian-E;344292]Paul, have you been carefully breeding with your hens to produce specially intelligent offspring? One of them appears to have hacked your account.[/QUOTE]
I can resist anything but temptation...

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAWsYfvHi1U]Louis Jordan[/url]

[QUOTE=Brian-E;344292]Paul, have you been carefully breeding with your hens to produce specially intelligent offspring? One of them appears to have hacked your account.[/QUOTE]

:grin::big grin::goodposting: +1!

Oops! Sorry, Paul. This may be hard to believe, but I honestly didn't mean to include the word "with" in my last posting, Kieren's enthusiasm notwithstanding. I think possibly David's posting alerted me to the crude side of what I had written. All I meant to imply was some inbreeding among the hens (with roosters).
:blush:

[QUOTE=ewmayer;344317]Ah - so next time Paul uses the initialism SWMBO we know it's just a symptom of being a henpecked husband.[/QUOTE]Got it in one.

I was going to make a comment about using a cock to breed with the hens but thought better of it.

But, on the bright side, [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115685/quotes"]in Guatemala[/URL],
[QUOTE]Armand: ...A woman is said to be worth her weight in hens. And a man's wealth is measured by the size [SPOILER]of his cock[/SPOILER].[/QUOTE]

I suggest that we should put this sub-thread to bed now. I'm surprised that Unc willy hasn't already leapt in.

[QUOTE=xilman;344362]I suggest that we should put this sub-thread to bed now. I'm surprised that Unc willy hasn't already leapt in.[/QUOTE]
Another attempt at double entendre?

[URL="http://www.toobighasfailed.org/2013/06/26/bank-of-america-chalk/"]Californian Jeff Olson Faces 13 Years In Jail For Writing Anti-Wall Street Messages In Chalk[/URL][QUOTE]Huffington Post has the headline, and an ABC station in San Diego has the story: Jeff Olson, a California man, wrote sidewalk messages last year that derided Bank of America, and he’s currently in trial, facing 13 years of jail and $13,000 in restitution fees.

Oh, and the messages were written in water-soluble chalk. But Bank of America claims that it cost them $6,000 to clean them up.

It’s no wonder, then, that Olson said, “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe this is happening” as he left the courtroom.

It’s a surreal story, especially following last week’s revelations six former Bank of America employees admitted that the bank systematically lied to customers in order to foreclose on them. This way bank employees could get bonuses in the form of cash and gift cards.[/QUOTE]via Adam Liss on g+[QUOTE]In other words, just so we're all clear:

Protest with chalk: 13 years in jail
Illegally foreclose on customers: 0 years in jail
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[QUOTE=ewmayer;344486]Aside: Gold getting hammered (into leaf, obviously :) again today - if it drops below $1000/oz I may be tempted to start buyin'. A global mass-liquidation-to-meet-margin-calls event could drive it much lower, in fact. But not sustainable so - there has simply been too much money printing in the past 5 years.[/QUOTE]
I've always felt that gold reflects the world economy, so if I'm correct then gold crashing means the world economy is improving, or about to improve. Maybe the ultra-rich know something us mere mortals don't?

[QUOTE=jasong;344627]I've always felt that gold reflects the world economy, so if I'm correct then gold crashing means the world economy is improving, or about to improve. Maybe the ultra-rich know something us mere mortals don't?[/QUOTE]For the last few decades the gold price has been denominated in dollars. Strong gold is equivalent to weak USD and vice versa.