I. . . think it might be a reference to bird flu? There are people who call it the chicken flu. Not a lot of them, but Wiley strikes me as the type.
It’s tempting to try to parse it as a near-sentence, “The chicken flew in and pub,” but I think that’s incidental. At the very least, I can’t find a joke there that doesn’t require a lot of imagination to reach.
He’s standing outside his empty bar, wondering why no one’s coming in.
Like another comic with the running gag of trying to sell turkeys from “Sam and Ella’s” turkey farm.
Is it something to do with the idiom “to fly the coop”? Everyone has “flown the coop”, so to speak, so no new customers are bothering to enter as they feel it’s been abandoned by everyone else? Admittedly, it’s a stretch, but it’s all I’ve got.
Andrew had it with “bird flu” which as been in the news a bit lately.
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I. . . think it might be a reference to bird flu? There are people who call it the chicken flu. Not a lot of them, but Wiley strikes me as the type.
It’s tempting to try to parse it as a near-sentence, “The chicken flew in and pub,” but I think that’s incidental. At the very least, I can’t find a joke there that doesn’t require a lot of imagination to reach.
He’s standing outside his empty bar, wondering why no one’s coming in.
Like another comic with the running gag of trying to sell turkeys from “Sam and Ella’s” turkey farm.
Is it something to do with the idiom “to fly the coop”? Everyone has “flown the coop”, so to speak, so no new customers are bothering to enter as they feel it’s been abandoned by everyone else? Admittedly, it’s a stretch, but it’s all I’ve got.
Andrew had it with “bird flu” which as been in the news a bit lately.