# I burning your chicken **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-chicken/305609 "2005-05-26T15:05:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-chicken/305609/1 "2005-05-26T15:05:16Z")
Every day this week I have been awakened at 5:30 by a rooster. I live in town. I’ll admit it’s a small town, and yet it’s a town. Towns shouldn’t have roosters. The only chickens that should be in towns should be extra crispy in buckets. _shakes fist_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Unkempt\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Unkempt\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Unkempt_One)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-chicken/305609/2 "2005-05-26T15:38:29Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Every day this week I have been awakened at 5:30 by a rooster. > > I live in town. I’ll admit it’s a small town, and yet it’s a town. > > Towns shouldn’t have roosters. The only chickens that should be in towns should be extra crispy in buckets. > > _shakes fist_ Also those chickens that play tic tac toe. They seem rather harmless and should also be allowed in town. However, roosters at 5:30 would have my blood boiling every morning. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-chicken/305609/3 "2005-05-26T22:18:02Z")
Do I even want to know what tic tac toe playing chickens are? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-chicken/305609/4 "2005-05-26T22:40:36Z")
When I was Honeymooning in Bali, I discovered that yes, indeedy, roosters crow at dawn. They also crow at noon, at dinnertime, at dusk, at teatime and any other bleedin’ time they feel like it - nonstop! Roast chicken dinner never tasted so good. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-chicken/305609/5 "2005-05-26T23:04:53Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Do I even want to know what tic tac toe playing chickens are? How could you live in Ohio and never have seen a tic-tac-toe-playing chicken? They’re chickens, they play tic-tac-toe. That’s all. Oh, and they usually win. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![The\_Unkempt\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Unkempt\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Unkempt_One)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-chicken/305609/6 "2005-05-26T23:15:12Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Do I even want to know what tic tac toe playing chickens are? Just what it sounds like. I remember seeing one in California maybe 20 years ago. Think of a booth, very much like the fortune telling booth from the movie _Big_. Now, instead of an animatronic gypsie fortune teller, there is a chicken…a live chicken. Below the chicken is a tic-tac-toe board that the human player can play with. The chicken has a similar board that it “plays” with. At the age of 6 I found it very difficult to beat the chicken, or whatever mechanism was playing for the chicken. Short article on a tic-tac-toe playing chicken [here.](http://brooks.casinocitytimes.com/articles/6163.html) A few pictures can be found [here.](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=tic+tac+toe+playing+chicken&btnG=Search) ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-chicken/305609/7 "2005-05-27T01:51:04Z")
I grew up in rural CT, where I heard roosters crow as I walked to school every morning. I greatly miss roosters crowing at sunrise, and would love to live in a place where they did. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-chicken/305609/8 "2005-05-27T02:26:56Z")
We had chickens when I was little; they had the run of the farm. One sultry August night I had decided to sleep outside on a lawn chair because it was baking hot in the house. I don’t move much in my sleep, and as the sun rose the chickens became bold. There is no more unpleasant way to be awakened than by the shrill crowing of a red bantam rooster standing on your chest. I very nearly shot into orbit while startled chickens scattered everywhere and my father, who had been watching the whole time from the back door, almost wet himself laughing. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-chicken/305609/9 "2005-05-27T03:57:47Z")
> [@Lucretia](#): > > I grew up in rural CT, where I heard roosters crow as I walked to school every morning. I greatly miss roosters crowing at sunrise, and would love to live in a place where they did. Was it uphill both ways? In the snow? Barefoot? 😉 **jsgoddess** : At least its cheaper than an alarm clock. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-chicken/305609/10 "2005-05-27T04:03:37Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > How could you live in Ohio and never have seen a tic-tac-toe-playing chicken? It appears I have led a sheltered and deprived life. The closest thing to livestock I’ve ever had was a St. Bernard!