Doing The Funky Chicken

Do you remember the funky chicken?

As a kid my mama taught me to do "The chicken", where you flapped your arms and kicked your feet.  She said that dance was a popular folk dance when I was a baby.   After she taught me that, my mama and I would dance around flapping our arms and kicking our feet and I really thought I was a chicken.  Especially when I was scratching my feet and cackling and crowing like an old rooster and hen.  I always had fun when my mama and I were dancing around like a couple of goony chickens.

I'd been dancing that chicken dance for years when, in about 1970, the Jackson 5 came out with their funky song "How Funky Is Your Chicken".  It was right about that time that the "Funky Chicken Dance" became popular.  What????  I'd been doing this same dance for years and now everybody thought "wow" a new dance.  I sure laughed at people doing that dance because they looked pretty stupid, flapping their arms and kicking their feet.  And when they added the "Yellow Chicken" moves where they wiggled their legs like they were made of rubber, I about cracked up.  But the "Crazy Chicken" moves in the Funky Chicken dance were the best as people were acting like they were scratching the floor and clucking really loud and boisterously.  How funny.

Yep it was funny because now I knew how funny and stupid my mama and I must have looked years ago.  Not only did we do the Chicken Folk dance back in the late 1950's but we were doing the Funky Chicken with the Yellow Chicken and the Crazy Chicken moves and we didn't even know it as this dance, with these moves, hadn't even been invented when we were doing it.  So America......my mama and I must have used the Chicken Folk Dance to invent that Funky Chicken dance and moves....a long time ago in never never land.

http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Dance-The-Funky-Chicken-257599577

Vintage Nearby Towns and Areas

Athens Main Street 1908

Ashland Farmers State Bank 1909

Mason City Farmers Grain and Coal 1917

Havana theater

Havana High School 1913

The old screen left from the Havana Drive In

A 1917 advertisement for the Havana National Bank

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Events in Greenview

February 3 - The Greenview CIA Soup and Chilli Dinner, 5 to 7 pm at the Greenview School all purpose room.  The GHS vs. Illini Central game to follow.  All proceeds benefit the Greenview CIA Scholarship Fund.

Ongoing - The Historic Marbold Homestead Association is attempting to purchase the old Marbold Mansion.  Funds are needed to help purchase this property.  Donate if you can.  Details can be found on the association website.

 http://historic-marbold-farmstead.org/Home_Page.html



Thought For The Day

  I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and

causes me to tremble for the safety of my country....corporations

have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places

will follow.

--Abraham Lincoln

It seems this man could foresee the future!

There are people who are considered an incendiary, meaning a fire starter and then there are those who meet the other definition.  Meaning.....a person who is likely to incite civil unrest; tending to arouse strife; agitator.

Yes I know quite a few of those type people...not firestarters....the others.  And I don't especially like them.

Usually the words which come from their mouth tends to resemble something which would come from a person who is an "anti-" just about everything.....and the political ones are the worst. 

Sure people have the freedom of speech and if they want to post their true feelings they should do that, but if they're really strong about their
"anti-whatever feelings" in many cases it can show how much of a horse's patootie they really are and it might turn people off to a friendship with others.

The numbers seem to be growing......I'm ready.....my friendships might be fewer but due to freedom of speech I say....good riddance.  Hope I'm not considered one of those....oh well.

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Hilarious Notes

Do you leave notes???

Sometimes the aggression comes out in the note writer.....and some of these notes show it.....I think some might have been written by passive aggressive persons.....Ha ha ha

Old Tyme Pictures Of Surrounding Area

Ashland Farmers State Bank 1909

Broadwell Pig Hip Restaurant and Museum

This was a restaurant from 1937 to 1991

and then became a museum only.  It burned in

2007 and was a truly great loss of memorabilia.



Huge fire in 1909 in Decatur downtown when an entire

block was destroyed.

Lincoln 1916 - Broadway looking west.

Lincoln 1932 Alveys Drug Store

Recipe

I love Salmon Patties but didn't eat them for years because I had always fried them in margarine.  With the availability of the fat free cooking spray I learned I could make the patties and spray them and bake them and they are still just as good.

Salmon Patties

1 can pink salmon

1 egg

1/4 cup minced onion

1/4 cup flour

1/4 to 1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs or crushed crackers

salt and pepper

Drain juice and save in case you need to add some to the mixture.  Take out the bones if desired.  Mix the egg and onion with the salmon until sticky, then add the flour and crumbs.  If it is too dry add some of the salmon juice.  Form into patties and put on a baking sheet which has been sprayed with Pam or other fat free spray....then spray the patties.  Bake at 350 degrees F until brown.  Turn over at about 15 minutes.

Thought For The Day

If poverty is the mother of crime,

stupidity is its father.

--Jean de la Bruyere

Yesterday I heard a noise and went to investigate.  I saw only the dog and a pile of books lying on the floor beside the dog. She was lying quietly with her eyes closed just as if she were pretending sleep. 

Since the dog seems to understand English better than any dog we ever had I thought I would ask her what happened.  She sure does understand the words "eat, ride, go pee, outside, food, upstairs, basement, bath and many many more". 

Since this old dog is so well versed in the English language I pointed to the books and asked her "what is the kerfuffle doggie?"  She didn't move.  I knew right then she was the culprit....she somehow got those books to fall.  Not long ago she was mad since we were gone and pulled some stuff from the coffee table and promptly chewed it up....of course it was important...something I had to send somewhere. 

This dog is nearing 13 and she is reverting to her childhood.  She chews up things, she whines and wants her way all of the time.  Doghood antics of a young dog it seems.  But of course she is like a member of the family....she gets her way.  So I picked up the books and went away.  I put them higher this time because I didn't want them destroyed......so this time she went upstairs and dug through the laundry basket and got my socks out and chewed holes in two pairs. 

This is certainly not the first time she has chewed my socks when she is upset with me....I buy more socks than any person I know because I somehow get big holes in them....teeth marks believe me.

Doggie is going to spend a few nights in the cold garage is she doesn't watch it......dang dog!





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