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  • JAFFE: Harry Reid's campaign wasted no time exploiting what they called Chickens for Checkups.

    Approval Ratings Down, Reid In Re-Election Fight 2010

  • Asking different sales folks if they happened to have a book called Chickens in the Headlights.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Matthew Buckley 2005

  • There is a great promontory on the coast, opposite the reef called the Hen and Chickens, which is pierced by a sort of tunnel about eight hundred feet in length and sixty feet in height, through which a boat can sail on calm days at high-water; and in the centre of the tunnel, bubbling up through the sea, rises a perpetual spring of fresh water.

    Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

  • Hong-Mo went out and called the Chickens, and she hunted long through the twilight until the dark night came, but she could not find them.

    The Talking Beasts Various 1896

  • Lowden later said the idea stems from a time when people would bring a chicken to the doctor if they couldn't afford to pay, prompting Democrats to launch a website called Chickens for Checkups.

    Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories The Associated Press 2010

  • Lowden later said the idea stems from a time when people would bring a chicken to the doctor if they couldn't afford to pay, prompting Democrats to launch a website called Chickens for Checkups.

    Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories The Associated Press 2010

  • Who Got the Chickens is the title of Stephan Pascher's latest show at Steven Wolf Fine Arts. It's a lighthearted jab at a well-known artist whose name became entwined with a small town in west Texas.

    unknown title 2009

  • -- Chickens, that is … we're not talking about wacky weed!

    Foxsylvania 2009

  • Who Got the Chickens is the title of Stephan Pascher's latest show at Steven Wolf Fine Arts. It's a lighthearted jab at a well-known artist whose name became entwined with a small town in west Texas.

    unknown title 2009

  • sigh and some of them never get over it as they grow older... but this particular prank is relatively amusing. and no fooling! there's a really fun and educational explanation of what this is all about on a blog called Chickens Don't Have Armpits. i'm not kidding!

    Archive 2008-04-01 Happy 2008

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