The Magic Chicken Is Bigger Than Almost Everything
Today I was playing a warm-up game with superlatives with my seventh grade math class. It begins with me asking the class, "What is bigger than a loaf of bread?" If the class answers that "a dog is bigger than a loaf of bread," for example, I then ask, "What is bigger than a dog?" and so on until the class agrees that they can thing of nothing bigger. We had gotten up to the earth, then the sun, then the galaxy, when one student proposed that "the magic chicken is bigger than the galaxy". After some discussion the class agreed, especially when it was clarified that "the magic chicken hasn't any end". Fortunately, an awkward theological argument was avoided when it was unanimously agreed upon that God was bigger than the magic chicken.
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The magic chicken? Is that anything like the "subservient chicken" (http://www.subservientchicken.com/) that Burger King used in its guerrilla marketing campaign?
Since I pay by the megabyte, streaming video is really too expensive for me. But based on the first few frames, I would say that the subservient chicken is something silly, and is consequently not at all like the magic chicken, which is a grave and cosmic matter.
Sorry, I had assumed that being the hip person that you are ;) you would have already seen the subservient chicken thing as it is several years old. I didn't mean for you to go and look at it, sorry. Hey, and a very Happy New Year to you!
It never hurts to underestimate my hipness. I've since gone to the website (on the Peace Corps' internet connection), and it is indeed nothing like the Magic Chicken, and I am indeed hipper.
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