[Wikipedia-l] The Onion on Wikipedia

[Richard Holton]

The army had a real problem with soldiers in 'Nam getting hooked on smoking
chicken feathers...it was very tragic.

On 7/31/06, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What would be the obvious one?
>
> People setting chickens afire?
>
> Mark
>
> On 31/07/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> > Brad Patrick wrote:
> >
> > >We are all cracking up here at the office.  Well done!
> > >
> > >On 7/26/06, Dirk Riehle <dirk at riehle.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Just saw this:
> > >>
> > >>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902
> > >>
> > >>Enjoy!
> > >>
> > >>Dirk
> > >>
> > >>PS: In case you wonder what kind of magazine The Onion is, try our
> > >>favorite reference:
> > >>
> > >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion
> > >>
> > I was especially amused by the line "But after a string of military
> > antics and a convoluted scheme involving chicken feathers and an
> > inflatable woman, the British were eventually defeated..."
> >
> > It reminded me of something that I randomly found in the stacks at the
> > University of Toronto library many years ago in a very long series of
> > pamphlets sponsored by various US government agencies in the 1960s.
> > There were so many of these that it seems that the library staff had
> > great difficulty keeping them catalogued.
> >
> > One in particular was memorable.  "The Toxic Effects of Burning Chicken
> > Feathers."  It was produced by the U.S. Army!  The only disappointment
> > was that the motivation for the study was not what would seem to be the
> > obvious one.  It had to do with the manufacture of mattresses for
> > soldiers, and the possible hazards in the event of a barracks fire.
> >
> > Ec
> >
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