Did Anyone Else Know Chickens Hung Out in Trees?

Here's a joke about a rooster for you.


Because I know that you were sitting around tonight thinking:


"There really just aren't enough rooster jokes in my life."

The joke is taken from the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.

It takes a very dry sense of humor to get this joke...


See if you can get it:

An irascible old farmer named Hu discovered one morning that his best rooster had flown into a tall tree beside his farm pond and wouldn’t come down, so he went to his neighbor, Wil, and asked for help. The men had never gotten along, but Wil finally agreed, so the two men went to the pond and began climbing the tree, Hu first. They meant to frighten the rooster out, you see, but the bird only kept flying higher, branch by branch. Then, just as Hu and the rooster reached almost the very top of the tree, with Wil right behind, there was a loud crack, the branch under Hu’s feet broke away, and down he went into the pond, splashing water and mud everywhere. Wil scrambled down as fast as he could and reached out to Hu from the bank, but Hu just lay there on his back, sinking deeper into the mud until only his nose stuck out of the water. Another farmer had seen what happened, and he came running and pulled Hu out of the pond. “Why didn’t you take Wil’s hand?” he asked Hu. “You could have drowned.” “Why should I take his hand now?” Hu grumped. “I passed him just a moment ago in broad daylight, and he never spoke a word to me.”

So?

Do you get it?

 I first read that joke when I was a junior in high school. It took me three days to get it.

Three days! 

I thought about that joke yesterday. 

We spent the afternoon meandering around a farm.

Don't you just love old barns. 

Especially old barns with window boxes.

While we were there we stumbled upon some...

Chickens? Hens? Roosters?

I'm going to go with chickens.

Hi, Chickenroosterhens!

They were really loud!

Really loud and really clucky.

We wandered out to the garden and when we came back we noticed the chickens were gone.

And yet...

There was still the clucking.

At first I thought the clucking was piped in...

We were kind of on a fancy farm.

...and then we saw the chickens up in the tree!

Did anyone else know that chickens hung out in trees?

I would have loved to have seen them flying up into the tree.

They were a hoot up there.

I took a video.

Uh oh. 

I took a video but for some reason it is appearing all wrong. 

Blast. 

Oh well. No video of the crazy chickens.

Trust me though...

It was crazy funny. 

Kinda like that joke!