What are YOU doing to celebrate The Festival of the Rising of the Chickenbear?

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The Festival of the Rising of the Chickenbear has traditionally taken place on February 3rd. In many northern American and some Canadian towns and villages locals have been known to celebrate the day by dressing as the Grand High Hanle y Deus and re-enacting the day that the Chickenbears woke from their winter slumber, this involves a complex dance routine, much drinking and the singing of the "Ballad of the Chickenbear". Children traditionally leave out a cardboard box which they hope Hanle y Deus will fill with toys and gifts, bad children have been known to receive a rather smelly sock.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 3 February 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The Anthony Easton 2003 Calendar in case you were wondering.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 3 February 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

oh God! I forget about this!

Sings:

Chickenbear chickenbear!
I can see you there!
With your head of a bear
And body of a chicken!
I get to thinkin'
You're the most wonderful
Creature in this world

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 3 February 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Clearly the only thing to say is...

FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 February 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Giving out plush toys of course!!

http://www.agapebears.com/littlegems/csci.jpg

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

all jel needs to do is get Helloween to perform the Chickenbear Song, and we'll be all set!

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

wow Tad that is totallyOTM! Helloween would be perfect performers of a Chickenbear song! I shall work on a chorus.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

(bah how come no one liked my omnipotent baby song?)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

We do we do, but today is not the Omnipotent baby day.
I shall look for past photographic proof of Chickenbear.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

http://thedeadites.net/imgs/chknbr1.jpg
Praise it, love it, but don't pee on it.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

this cracks me up

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

even the cats are getting into the Rising of the Chickenbear spirit! this one has the dance moves down!!

http://www.choppersbar.com/bsr/glowcat.gif

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

celebrate the day by dressing as the Grand High Hanle y Deus
How does the Grand High Hanle y dress?

To answer the thread title, I'm planning on doing laundry. It's a very rare occasion, basically a holiday in itself.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

How does the Grand High Hanle y dress?

http://www.delpiano.com/carnival/assets/images/medicow1.jpg

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

we did not properl y prepare for this holida y, for He did not appear!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

this is what is known as The Great Disappointment.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

PROOF HE EXISTS (someone sent me a link to this)

http://www.nvinet.com/users/cwalsh/gallerypics/chickenbear.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I always knew it to be so.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I was blind
Now I can see
You made a believer
Out of me
Kim does right

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

One night I dreamed I was walking
Along the beach with Hanle y Deus.
Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.

Sometimes there were two sets of footprints.
Other times there were one set of footprints.

This bothered me because I noticed that
During the low periods of my life when I was

Suffering from anguish, sorrow, or defeat,
I could see only one set of footprints,

So I said to Hanle y Deus, "You promised me,
Lord, that if I followed You,
You would walk with me always.

But I noticed that during the most trying periods
Of my life there have only been
One set of prints in the sand.

Why, When I have needed You most,
You have not been there for me?"

Hanle y Deus replied,
"The times when you have seen only one set of footprints
Is when I was posting pictures of the chickenbear. flaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently someone has already adopted The Chicken Bear (and his cousin The Bear Rooster). In whose collection does this holy relic reside?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Eisbar, prophet.

As for the owner of the bear, it is Calvina Walsh!

http://www.nvinet.com/users/cwalsh/BackgroundImages/Calvina.jpg

(Meryl Streep in her most surprising role yet.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

word.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 4 October 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

eisbar in half man half biscuit quoting shocka!

― Carsmile on Junior Kickstart (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 4 October 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

What does it mean when Chickenbear does not see his shadow?

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 3 February 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

It means it is night time in Chickenbear land.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Oh, happy days!

Chickenbear is one of the things I'll never forget about ILX.

God bless you Hanle y Deus.

Don't stop beleivin'

Heaven is a funky moose.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

It is truly a blessed beast from the all-high.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget the Icemoth!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I feel like I missed out on something. All we had to believe in was the lousy jackalope
http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/gipperlope.jpg

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

ICEMOTH!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I AM THINKING OF NEW WAYS I MAY COVER MY BODY IN FLAME. ONE WAY IS TO RUN INTO THE PALACE OF FIRECATS AND INSIST ON A NEW COATING, THELAST ONE WAS EATEN OFF BY ICEMOTH
-- Mike Hanle y (Pennyson...), March 2nd, 2002.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Man, we forgot about firecats.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Firecats and Icemoths = great concept album!!!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Hahah. Now if Rhapsody were worth a damn, we'd even have the band to do it!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

drat, i missed it!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

Honour the Chickenbear!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Forever!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Where chickenbears come from...

ihttp://nmrresource.ucsd.edu/images/chickenbear.JPG

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

my ex girlfriend's housemate owned a cuddly toy which was yellow and shaped like a teddy bear, but with a red beak and for ages I thought that this toy was the original chickenbear. I believe she brought it back from China.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

San Diego??

xpost

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.andreasfancydress.co.uk/images/costumes/chickenbear_large.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 11 February 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

We all go up to the Chickenbear Ranch Restaurant and Lounge and have ourselves some of that tasty Chickenbeariyaki. Some say its Chickenbearly edible.

― Bustinbeats, Monday, 17 October 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

OMFG! this came and went w/t anyone noticing!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

This year too!

― stet, Saturday, 31 March 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

OMFG! this came and went w/t anyone noticing!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, February 8, 2006 1:42 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This year too!

― stet, Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:07 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

hopefully not THIS year

― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Monday, 2 February 2009 14:24 (sixteen years ago)

I feel that this year's festival will have to be extra-special! The world's gone crazy since we stopped celebrating.

Oh! Chickenbear I have neglected you so :( Our love has almost died. We shall go back to the old ways, I promise.

― jel --, Monday, 2 February 2009 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

I feel that this year's festival will have to be extra-special! The world's gone crazy since we stopped celebrating.

truer words have never been spoken, jel ... :-)

― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Monday, 2 February 2009 17:48 (sixteen years ago)

Is Hanle y still with us?

― Tuomas, Monday, 2 February 2009 17:52 (sixteen years ago)

OK, when did this happen?!!!

Google -
Results 1 - 10 of about 11,400,000 for chickenbear. (0.11 seconds)

― Kim, Monday, 2 February 2009 17:55 (sixteen years ago)

tuomas: i last saw him about a month or two ago. he didn't stay very long, though ;_;

― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Monday, 2 February 2009 17:56 (sixteen years ago)

wtf

― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Monday, 2 February 2009 17:58 (sixteen years ago)

also ... http://www.yellowpages.com/info-LMS67752072/Pizza-Bear/maps

― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Monday, 2 February 2009 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

I painted this in honour of the Chickenbear:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/S4302023.jpg

It's the Chickenbear rising from it's winter slumber.

― jel --, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:48 (sixteen years ago)

inspiring, jel!

― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

For the occasion I have already performed the finger-smelling dance at dawn. Not having a troupe, I forewent the chickenbear blanket toss. The raisin wine behind the radiator is almost finished to perfection for tonight! I'm excited!

― Aimless, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

Researchers capture amazing footage of he rising of the chickenfrog

― Alba, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 07:48 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

Chickenbear has been sighted!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T_JachDW9ag/SqfAk3tzI3I/AAAAAAAAArE/m-2V-TIp0-g/s800/chickenbear.jpg

― Anna Nicole Smite (j.lu), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:23 (fifteen years ago)

IT LIVES

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)

Does it have a name like Punxsutawney Phil?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:28 (fifteen years ago)

three months pass...

syrup is sticky

― Latham Green, Saturday, 15 May 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4751730834_d4d17d7c2e.jpg

― Ed Kranepool borrow Chico Escuela's soap and never give it back (Eisbaer), Monday, 27 September 2010 04:35 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

ONCE AGAIN WE HAVE LET THIS IMPORTANT HOLIDA Y PASS US BY WITHOUT CELEBRATION

― Political Unrest Stabilizes Society Yeah (Eisbaer), Saturday, 12 February 2011 11:53 (fourteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/62500/Chicken-Bear-Dancing--62720.jpg
The Polar Chickenbear arises on February 3 to perform its ritual mating dance.

― Seraphim? I don't even know him! (j.lu), Friday, 3 February 2012 13:14 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs25/f/2008/044/8/7/Chickenbear_by_qwertypictures.jpg

Eppur Chickenbear muove....

― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Monday, 3 February 2014 16:27 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/96500/Chicken-Bear--96576.jpg

― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 17:47 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

https://t00.deviantart.net/YgImGRBy5r57tXxOUsjrPe_xemM=/fit-in/700x350/filters:fixed_height(100,100):origin()/pre00/22a7/th/pre/f/2008/137/5/4/chicken_bear_by_cpt_jim.jpg

― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Sunday, 4 February 2018 00:14 (seven years ago)

eleven months pass...

https://img00.deviantart.net/a4c5/i/2013/074/7/f/chickenbear_by_najadekuppen-d5y36k1.png

― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 3 February 2019 13:52 (six years ago)

three years pass...

https://usrimg-850.fark.net/b/bW/fark_bWRvCgaNsSgvnQTcp_8aqF3GmSg.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=HBAYEKZHGUB4NAYQBVSQ&Expires=1644210000&Signature=jaV10qy%2FXt5DPUymDNVmnv4VLpU%3D

― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 3 February 2022 18:47 (three years ago)

resplendant!

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 3 February 2022 19:48 (three years ago)

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