Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf]

And the presentation version - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk</a>

I'm sorry, but is this what passes for academic typesetting nowadays? I felt as if I were sitting in some farcical business presentation as my eyes scanned this typographical travesty! This <i>thing</i> is an affront to the eyes as much as to the mind, utter tripe. Don't the mods have any taste? Hacker News is truly in the pits now.

Interestingly, while Google Scholar has indexed the paper (from another site), it's actually only ranked number 2 for the query "chicken chicken chicken: chicken chicken":<p><a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=chicken+chicken+chicken%3A+chicken+chicken" rel="nofollow">http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=chicken+chicken+chicken%...</a>

I don't understand. Why is this funny? Are you all 5 year olds or am I missing something?

Chicken chicken, chicken chicken chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chicken[1].<p>Chicken chicken chicken {C(n)} chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken.<p>____<p>Chicken chicken<p>chicken

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" would have at least been grammatically correct.

This is the lecture that accompanied the paper:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk</a>

LISP version:<p>(chicken chicken (chicken chicken chicken))<p>Can you come up with an implementation of chicken that allows this code to run?

Now I really feel stupid. For the unenlightened, can someone shed some light on what this means please?

My favourite bit is:<p><pre><code> Chicken, chicken chicken, chicken chicken chicken 1987.</code></pre>

I wonder if one of those citations is to PLIF: <a href="http://plif.courageunfettered.com/archive/wc072.gif" rel="nofollow">http://plif.courageunfettered.com/archive/wc072.gif</a>

Yeah, that post entry gets traction when other newsworthy stuff gets canned. HN is slowly slipping into a weird dimension where Zombies are taking over ...

A few years ago, at work we were asked if we wanted steak or chicken for a lunch thing. I replied with this pdf as my answer.

I wonder whether there is an entire school of thought based on the principles (correctly) formulated within this paper.

James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher

I miss his Dominion client daily.

He could have used random kanji/hanzi and probably be even more meaningful 胡说八道

This is the best paper on Chicken scheme that I have ever been able to read.

:%s/\w\+/chicken/g

Way older than the Internet... still fun though.

Now that's what I call obfuscation.

Holy semantic satiation, HN.

...what combo you pickin?

Old, but a true classic!

always makes me laugh

chicken