Rogue (New York
City), vol. 13, no. 8, December 1967, p. 18. “Am I a people?” “No,
you’re a chicken.” “Are chickens born?” “No, chickens are laid.” “Are people
laid?” “Not all of them…some are chicken.”
See also Paul
Smith, The Complete Book of Office
Mis-Practice (London: Guild Publishing, 1985), 110; Alan Dundes & Carl
Pagter, Work Hard and You Shall Be
Rewarded (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995 [1975]), 157-9. In
the three folk cartoons included in these two books, the chick omits the
indefinite article, asking, “Am I people?”
Grunt Free Press (Honolulu, HI), vol. 2, no. 2, April 1970, pp. 18-19.
“Sex
Egg-ucation”, via Google Images.
