Chicken of the sea, or lamb of the sky?

CabbageCat

Sporky said:

CabbageCat said:

"See cucumber of the land" is clever because it doesn't use "sea" as "C", it uses it as "see". A cucumber that grows in the land...and helps you see...a carrot, of course!!

This is some very insightful work.

I am wondering if you have neglected to consider the hyphen in sea-cucumber? Just wondering.

I considered a hyphen to be a phonetic red-herring, implemented only to throw the unwary from the scent.

TheMarlin

Bit of a stretch......Lamb of the sky, constellation. Aries, the ram?

RaymondLin

Chicken of the sea is Tuna,  that is the literal translation in a lot of Japanese tuna filled foods.

scrumhalf

Lamb of the sky? Easy peasy

Sporky

CabbageCat said:

I considered a hyphen to be a phonetic red-herring, implemented only to throw the unwary from the scent.

I suspected as much.

Sporky

Time, I think, to give a clue.

When considering the chicken of the sea, consider also what would be the chicken(s) of the land and of the sky. You may find this quite edifying.

Myranda

Isn't chicken the chicken of the land? 

stickyfiddle

Myranda said:

Isn't chicken the chicken of the land? 

Don't be ridiculous!

Sporky

I implore you to neither over- nor under-think this one.

Myranda's answer is worthy of thoughtful investigation. What if the chicken of the land was indeed the chicken? What implications would that have? Pursuing that line may reveal deeper truths.

CabbageCat

OK. So if a chicken is a chicken of the land. A chicken is also a chicken of the sea and a chicken of the air. It's just that one is in a boat and one is in an aeroplane.

Likewise lamb and sea-cucumber.

Sporky

Could the chickens of the sea and air not be in a submarine and a zeppelin respectively?

And the chicken of the land in some sort of charabang?

To be clear, these are not my suggestions of the correct answers (yet). They are points for deliberation; for example, what are the differences between an aeroplane and a zeppelin, and what do they mean to the chicken?

Myranda

I'm getting confused 
... 

Am I the chicken of the sea? 

Is the sea-lamb driving a cucumber? 

Are Led Zeppelin in a submarine? 

jaytmon

Did anyone ever take any chickens into space? Is there an atmospherically frozen chicken orbiting the Earth a few miles up?

CabbageCat

Sporky said:

Could the chickens of the sea and air not be in a submarine and a zeppelin respectively?

And the chicken of the land in some sort of charabang?

To be clear, these are not my suggestions of the correct answers (yet). They are points for deliberation; for example, what are the differences between an aeroplane and a zeppelin, and what do they mean to the chicken?

I picture a chicken standing on a beach in Cornwall as the sun sets, gentle waves washing against its lumpy chicken legs. The soles of its feet belong to a land-chicken, the nobbly knees are those of a sea-chicken and the breezy wattle is in the air-chicken sky.

Sporky

Confusion can be helpful; once you lose sight of your original path you can see the full potential of the journey.

However, I can assure you all that Myranda is not the chicken of the sea, and if the submarine is yellow it has nothing to do with the Beatles. It's just a popular colour for commercial submarines. And corn-fed chicken.

ThePrettyDamned

Chicken of the land is a mushroom think, bracket fungus to be exact. 

So a chicken of the sea is... some kind of fungus?

Sporky

I believe you are thinking of the Chicken Of The Woods.

Chicken and mushroom are established friends, of course, so your thinking has merit.

Chalky

I think @Sporky is a very clever man who has written a piece of software that analyses previous comments in the thread and generates @Sporky responses that are semantically correct, Zen-like in obscurity, but ultimately meaningless. Rather like the screenplay of Lost....

Sporky

Chalky said:

I think @Sporky is a very clever man

Best answer so far!

PolarityMan

The primary question was which do you prefer so I reckon I can just say i prefer lamb of the sky and declare myself the winner. If you chumps want to toil after the stretch goals then be my guest.