Headless chicken

"Mike, Mike, where's your head? Even without it, you're not dead!" --Schoolyard rhyme from the 1940's inspired by Mike the Headless Chicken.

Headless chicken

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Without a goal, you'd be running around like some headless chickens - No Direction.

A sideshow exhibit in the 1940s, “Mike the Headless Wonder Chicken” was written about in Life and Time Magazines, and in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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Mike the Headless Rooster

Headless Chicken!

Do you sometimes feel like chicken with its head cut off . Running here and there and every where?

Mike the headless chicken stands atop a lawn mower in Fruita, Colorado, 1945.

Stefan Sagmeister "Aiga New Orleans Jambalaya", 1997. What I found interesting about this Desgin was how Sagmeister used the chickens legs for the font style in the world hurry to show the audience they must hurry to the event. I also like how the rest of the fonts flow with the "Hurry" font to balance it all out.

A Mop-headed chicken, but she looks more like a headless chicken

There was a chicken called Mike. The headless chicken that lived for 18 months without a head.

While Colorado is home to a number of weird attractions, only one can be named the weirdest, which is that of Mike the Headless Chicken.

Posted on May 17, 2014 This story may be a little hard to take for animal lovers – so I'm warning people against the killing of animals for meat to read no further. But it is such a crazy-interesting story, I had to write about it! Way back in 1945, a Colorado farmer named Lloyd Olsen set off to kill a tender young rooster for that night's dinner. Knowing that his mother-in-law would be eating with them, and that she dearly loved neck of chicken, Lloyd tried to cut the rooster's head off in…

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LIFE.com presents Mike the Headless Chicken's unlikely story, and the utterly unsettling pictures that can still shock today.