Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more" and other books.
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We aren't very good at predicting either one much further out than a week or two.
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Wow.
That cock just keeps on going.
The middle one sounds like Godzilla.
This is soooo my next ringtone!
I laughed for about five minutes at this. I don't know why it's so funny. I cried even.
"hey, wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?" ^__^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-uqix9rthg
Somehow I don't see long crowing as being a survival trait in a rooster. Especially after it got me out of a sound sleep. Darwin is not mocked.
Damn, OOSHINY you beat me to it.
If any of my neighbours had one of those things, it certainly wouldn't be for long.
I agree with alisong76. I wouldn't hesitate to choke that chicken.
im pretty sure the second and third ones are just slowed down?
Two things came to mind:
*laughter* God, what a set of lungs!
and
This is what wrist rockets were made for.
haha, I'm sure I would found out very quickly whether or not they were delicious.
Man, I would have loved to have one of those when we had the next door neighbors from hell who owned pit bulls....
I'll take that over car noise any day.
I don't know about this. I got burned on a deal to buy some long horses a while back, so I'm skeptical.
#15, you were indeed ripped off. Go and get a long cat.
heh. I'm in Indonesia atm, and while I was in Malang I stayed with a friend's family - between the early morning prayers at the local mosque (4am), the roosters getting all up with it (5am) or the insane amount of traffic (6am->) there was ample reason to go to bed at 10pm.
Having said that, it was the roosters that did my head in.
We had a cute little grey rooster named Edamame. Our next door neighbor complained about his crowing to the owner of the house. The next morning the owner threatened to come over and shoot the rooster and all the other chickens if they were not all gone that day. (We had permission from the owner to have chickens)
What made the situation worse was that our 12 year old daughter answered the phone when the owner called.
The owner mistook her for my wife as he tore into his rant that he was coming over that afternoon to kill our chickens if we did not do exactly as he said. When my wife got on the phone (after our daughter FREAKED THE PHUCK OUT) things became markedly worse. The conversation ended with us being curtly asked to move out ASAP.
That was two months ago. We now happily live 35 miles outside Austin in the small city of Driftwood on ten acres of magic. Edamame was killed by raccons while he was "visiting" a friends farm during the interim. Our little yellow chicken Nausicaa, has not laid any eggs since Edamame died.
Just something for all the rooster hataz of the world to keep in mind.
ka me ha me . . . . .
If that rooster crows for more than four hours, please consult your rooster's physician. Because I'm going to throw a brick at it.
Are we sure these aren't the same thing as "long horses"? I'm not so gullible, Frauenfelder.
Cock-A-Doodle-Dog
My cats freaked the fuck out when they heard this. It was much funnier than the roosters.
#15-16: What about just getting a long little dogie?
Xeni, and other doubters, these (at the very least the Koeyeshi), look legit: more videos here
And here's an entry from the (Japanese) National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences chicken database, explicitly mentioning the 15 second crow.
the epic of roostard:
http://giantlaser.livejournal.com/34224.html
linked from jwz.livejournal.com
There are two annoying little chihuahua dogs living across the road that start chirping every time I walk out my door. One of these ought to put the fear of the coming apocalypse in them.
Where can you buy one?
I like the wheezing inhale of the third rooster.
I got a little red rooster too lazy to crow for days (x2).
Keep everything in the barnyard, people, upset in every way.
Culturally, roosters are, like, 8 years behind the times.
What? No ringtone link??
Long crowing roosters, meet howlin' wolves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXm0vYHggOs&feature=related
I'm not 100% certain, but I think one of those roosters was my statistics professor.
I love roosters. I've had six of them at one time, all different breeds, all with different crows. The Japanese Chabo had the most melodic crow of the lot. There was a little old English game cock who had a crow that was so wheezy and creaky that I always wanted to give him a cough drop.
I never had a long-crowing breed. But I don't think I'd mind the sound. My neighbors didn't mind the crowing. I went around and asked them all about it and they said they liked it. One told me "Why do you think we live out here? We like to have animals around."
And I will take the sound of chickens and horses and cows and barking dogs over lawn mowers and leaf blowers and traffic any day.
I think this negative obsession with the sounds of rooster crowing is neurotic affectation. The same people hardly notice if a truck roars up their street in the wee hours.
@33 Pipenta: Good point. The sounds of these roosters are downright soothing compared to traffic noise. Especially car horns, which I have an irrational urge to seek out and smash upon sounding. I suppose that's my neurotic affectation:-)
"Wow, what an annoying cock."
Ah,having grown up with normal crowing roosters
that sound from any of them is horrible ,decades
later,what maniac bred these suckers?
Rooster #3 does not sound like a creature of this planet; rather, it sounds like one of the Old Ones summoning Cthulhu! *shiver*