In The Rubber Chicken’s Burning Question series, we have successfully solved some of life’s greatest mysteries by asking every celebrity or inappropriate party we could find.  What is The Grimace? What do the birds and the bees do? How do you get to Sesame Street? Why does the sun shine? (The answers, in order: 1. Cloned Mutant Beetroot / 2. They Make Toast / 3.  A Global Network of Mario-Style Warp Pipes / 4. It’s Complicated.)

Isn’t it about time we applied this research technique to the Greater Good?  What if, instead of drawing upon pop-culture or lightweight philosophy, we turned to cold, hard science?

In my daily search for risqué Last Starfighter fan fiction, I accidentally stumbled upon an astronomy blog and learned a startling fact:
90% of the universe’s mass remains unaccounted for.

Today, we pitch the following question to our guests:
Where is the universe’s missing mass?

Well, Television’s Michelle Rodriguez?

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Improvement? [Y] [N]

Posted on June 24th, 2009 by Rebecca Brown


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Shoot ‘Em Up – Film Review

Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Alastair Craig

In the motion picture film “Shoot ‘Em Up”, Clive Owen:

  • Kills not one, but two men with a carrot.
  • Has an intimate encounter with Monica Bellucci while shooting bad guys, delivers a satisfactory performance on both fronts, then turns off the light by shooting the switch.
  • Literally fires bullets with his bare hands.
  • Delivers a baby in the middle of a gunfight and severs the umbilical cord by shooting it.

In conclusion, you should probably see the motion picture film “Shoot ‘Em Up”.


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The Sploosh Manifesto

Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Alastair Craig

Here at ThatChickenSite.com: The Official Website of ThatChickenSite.com, we have plenty to be proud of.  A Really Very Excellent Podcast.  A few million fooled Star Wars fans.  Several wasted seconds of Noam Chomsky’s time.  Not to mention (but mentioning anyway) the satisfaction of bringing a little extra fun into people’s lives for nearly a decade.

Yet for all the hard work, The Rubber Chicken’s single finest moment lies burried deep in our painstakingly-restored archives, in a short but profound June 22, 2003 post by Brett “Mister Bung” Cullen.

“Ladies and gentlemen”, he wrote:

I think, by this point, you’re seeing my argument.

And so we return an older, wiser, but rejuvenated Chicken Site.com, more open to frequent shorter posts, new writers, community interaction and not spending four hours trudging through HTML in Windows Notepad just to post a freaking update.
Willing, in short, to admit the rest of the Internet might be on to something with the heathen hanky-panky of “blogging”.
Take heed, presently-absent readership.  No hurdle, practical or ethical, will stop us from winning you back.

Splooshindeed, my friends.Splooshindeed.


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Andrey: Christmas means many things to many people. To us at the Rubber Chicken, for example, it means nothing. Much like the Jews of the field and the Blacks of the air, we adorn ourselves come December in the colors of our own dark festival.

This storied ritual, known to the billions of people who celebrate it every years as Saint Crispin’s Day, is that time of year when families come together to exchange gifts and celebrate the yule-tide cheer that powers us through the remaining eleven months of every gruelling annum.

Saint Crispin’s Day is the Christmas of media-hijacked religious holidays, and via the soft-padded alternate universe of our podcast, we now invite you to have a nibble at the ceremonial moose-head, stuff some gifts in your kids’ shoes, and wring in St. Crispin’s with us like the heathen kings of old did.

We would have invited you to do this on December 25th, but people were busy for some reason.

Starring
Andrey Summers, Tim Morrison, Fiona Revill, Michael Cope and “Dave”.
with Brett Cullen, Alastair Craig and Gord Myren

Written and compiled by Andrey Summers
Additional editing by Alastair Craig

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An unbroadcast 2007 interview with Popular Character Actor Alec Baldwin.

Written and compiled by Andrey Summers

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The Business of Evil

Posted on November 26th, 2008 by Andrey Summers, Michael Cope and James Simpson

A one-act play by Andrey Summers.
With a cast including TRC veterans Michael Cope, James Simpson, and Adam “Perry the Puppet Pal” Pateman.


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Australians everywhere (provided they live in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane and use public transport) know mX – a delightful, informative and totally free daily newspaper available at train stations. Subjects span US celebrity gossip, new product lines, US celebrity trivia, sports, photographs of people in their underwear, US celebrities launching new product lines, photographs of US celebrities in their underwear, and sudoku.

Particularly worth reading is the the letters section, “Vent Your Spleen”, where fellow commuters write in to send messages to strangers they met on the train or discuss the news, politics, trains, celebrities and celebrities on trains.

Ever wanted to see what that letters section looked like, but too afraid to pick up the copy that shifty old man left on his seat with a copy of Big & Bouncy wrapped inside? Wonder no longer!

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The Birthday Smear Campaign

Posted on November 7th, 2008 by James Simpson


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What happens when you remove the first person to clap in a theatre? This comprehensive, 2.5 minute exercise in sadistic sociology aims to find out.

Starring
Fiona Revill and Andrey Summers
with additional voices and sound creation by Alastair’s Family™.

Written, compiled and scored by Alastair Craig.

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