Two Chooks Please

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Someone's post reminded me of this but I can't for the life of me remember whose post it was. A woman went into a butcher's and wanted a dressed chook (chicken). The butcher only had the one left but didn't tell the woman. She looked at the chook and thought it was a bit small. Did the butcher have one a bit bigger? He took the chook out the back, came back with it and showed it to the woman. She said that yes, it would do nicely but then she decided she'd take them both. I don't know what happened next! And so I can't be accused of simply telling a joke, here is your lesson for the day. When birds crouch down onto a perch to go to sleep, the tendons in their legs tighten and cause the toes to automatically clamp round the perch or branch. This involuntary reflex stops them from falling off when they go to sleep. The tendons stay tight till they straighten their legs in the morning. And another thing – why it is called a 'dressed' chicken when it is so very obviously undressed? There are some beautiful and unusual poultry breeds so I've broken my rule – again – of only using photos that Vince or I take. Here is a Polish rooster courtesy of Wikimedia. Joe Mabel [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons