Dirty Eggs

me: Do the chickens push the egg out their vagina or their ass? Sometimes it seems like there is shit on the eggs when I gather them.

N: Chickens don't have vaginas or assholes. They have cloacae. It's an all-purpose hole. So yeah, there probably is some shit on the eggs, coming out of the all-purpose hole.

me: No chicken vaginas?

N: No chicken vaginas.

me: Hmm. . . How do the roosters fertilize the eggs?

N: A rooster has a cloaca too. So when a hen and a rooster mate, they rub their cloacae together for the fluid exchange. [Seriously - he used the words "fluid exchange." And my mind wandered into thoughts about rubbing holes together before realizing . . . .]

me: A rooster has an all-purpose hole too? So a cock doesn't have a cock? My mind has been blown.

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Wikipedia says roosters don't have penises.
Some guy at Harv*rd says male chickens do have a small penis (buried in their all-purpose hole, I'm guessing.)
This Aussie site on chicken ("chook") breeding doesn't mention penises, just the all-purpose hole.
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You know, I am not interested in the chicken-or-egg question. I AM interested in knowing how a penis came to be known as a cock if male chickens don't really have one, or if they do, it's buried in their all-purpose shit-semen-piss hole. Etymology of sex slang is fascinating. Or perhaps I just need to get some sleep.

Not Enough Retirement Activites?

News of the weird: Dear diary of too much information ...

The Salt Lake Tribune wire services

Article Launched: 11/14/2007 07:59:05 AM MST

Posted: 7:57 AM- A man noted for keeping an almost unbelievably detailed personal diary died in October at age 89.
For 25 years, the Rev. Robert Shields of Dayton, Wash., had chronicled his life in five-minute segments of banalities, leaving 37 million words on paper filling 91 boxes. His self-described "uninhibited," "spontaneous" work was astonishing in its mundaneness.
Examples: Aug. 13, 1995, 8:40 a.m. "I filled the humidifying basin mounted over the Futura baseboard heater." 8:45 a.m.: "I shaved twice with the Gillette Sensor blade (and) shaved my neck behind both ears, and crossways of my cheeks, too."' July 25, 1993, 7 a.m.: "I cleaned out the tub and scraped my feet with my fingernails to remove layers of dead skin." 7:05 a.m.: "Passed a large, firm stool, and a pint of urine. Used 5 sheets of paper."
-- Chuck Shepherd