Comments on: A Kernel of Synchronicity

By: mkilby

mkilby — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:48:51 +0000

Why is “Colonel” pronounced “kernel”?

Because the last step in the chain from the original Latin root (related to “column”) down to the current English word was an obsolete French term spelled “coronel”.

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:15:33 +0000

Digression time: One of the most stupid words in the English language: Why is “Colonel” pronounced “kernel”?

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:30:00 +0000

@Rainey:
Who would want to eat a chicken after it spent its brief life in a dark shed, was ground up, fried in mystery goop, and served in a bucket?

By: mkilby

mkilby — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:56:05 +0000

@ 1, 5 & 6 - Then there’s Baldrick’s recipe for “Rat au Vin” (Blackadder: “That’s a rat, that’s been run over by a van.”) You could easily substitute chicken for the rat. After all, every kind of “variety” meat tastes “just like chicken”, even Larson’s cows thought that.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:34:09 +0000

Colonel Sanders just hated chickens. He wasn’t in the business because the birds were tasty, he just liked the idea of dismembering them and boiling them in oil. Kicking one into the street would probably fit his M.O.

By: Dyfsunctional

Dyfsunctional — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:00:23 +0000

@ Harley (#4): If it is, he’s got a lot of them.

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:50:54 +0000

Yet nobody sees anything odd about pressed duck.

By: Jeff Lichtman

Jeff Lichtman — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:43:30 +0000

Rainey, haven’t you heard of the famous recipe, Chicken Under a Car?

By: Harley Quinn

Harley Quinn — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:18:29 +0000

So is Scott Hilburn Gary Larson’s pen name?

By: Frank the curmudgeon

Frank the curmudgeon — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:33:20 +0000

err “Sanders”