Monday Morning Cute: The Unconventional Friendship

Penny and Roo are “unconventional friends,” as Metapicture puts it.

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Via metapicture.com

Penny is an “experimental chicken” whose program had ended, and Roo is a chihuahua born without fully-formed front legs and abandoned in a park. They became best buddies after their rescues at Duluth Animal Hospital.

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Via metapicture.com

I wasn’t sure what an “experimental chicken” was, and thought maybe Penny’s appearance is due to some sort of genetic splicing or something. She is actually a silkie chicken who just had the misfortune of ending up in a lab. I learned something about chicken breeds today.

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The secret policy meeting at Chik-Fil-A headquarters

Quite a few people already knew that Chik-Fil-A is run by some pretty hardcore Christian conservatives. Mostly, it has always just meant that if you want a fried chicken sandwich in a hurry, and it happens to be a Sunday, you’ll have to go somewhere else.

It also means that the company gives money to some big-time anti-gay organizations.

Then, of course, the president of the company discussed how proud they are to be anti-gay. Then a shitstorm ensued, and then the company decided to back off of advocacy on the issue.

It sort of begs the question of how the company made its decision to be so overtly anti-gay. Did they decide that fried chicken is a heterosexual food? I suspect it went a bit like the meeting when Kirk Van Houten (Milhouse’s dad) lost his job in The Simpsons:

Kirk: You’re letting me go?
Cracker Co. Foreman: Kirk, crackers are a family food – happy families. Maybe single people eat crackers, we don’t know. Frankly, we don’t want to know. It’s a market we can do without.
Kirk: So that’s it, after twenty years, “So long, good luck?”
Cracker Co. Foreman: I don’t recall saying, “Good luck.”

Yes, I’m sure it was exactly like that.

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