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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1120036" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><u>Jessie the chicken </u></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><u>plucker</u></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>What a wonderful story ---- I never</p><p>knew............ A DREAMER AND HIS DREAM. Let me tell you, Jesse hated this job.</p><p>And you would</p><p>too,</p><p><strong>Imagine, if you had to </strong></p><p style="text-align: center"><strong>do it.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Jesse was a chicken </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>plucker. That's right.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>He stood on a line in a chicken factory and spent </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>his days</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Pulling the feathers off </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>dead chickens so the rest of us</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Wouldn't have </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>to.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>It wasn't much of a job. </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>But at the time,</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Jesse didn't think he </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>was much of a person.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>His father was a brute </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>of a man.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>His dad was actually thought to be mentally ill</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>And treated Jesse rough </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>all of his life.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Jesse's older brother wasn't much better.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>He was </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>always picking on Jesse and beating him up.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Yes, Jesse grew up in a </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>very rough home in</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>West Virginia. </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Life was anything but easy.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>And he thought life </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>didn't hold much hope for him.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>That's why he was standing in this chicken </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>line,</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Doing a job that darn </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>few people wanted.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>In addition to all the rough treatment at home, it </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>seems</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>That Jesse was always </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>sick. Sometimes it was real</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>physical illness, but </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>way too often it was all in his head.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>He was a small child, </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>skinny and meek.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>That sure didn't help the situation any.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>When he </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>started to school, he was the object</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>of every Bully on </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>the playground.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>He was a hypochondriac of the first order.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>For Jesse, </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>tomorrow was not always something</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>he looked </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>forward to.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>But, he had dreams. </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>He wanted to be a ventriloquist.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>He found books on </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>ventriloquism. He practiced with</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Sock puppets and saved </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>his hard earned dollars until</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>He could get a real </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>ventriloquist dummy.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>When he got old enough, he joined the </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>military.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>And even though many of </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>his hypochondriac symptoms</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Persisted, the military </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>did recognize his talents and</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Put him in the </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>entertainment corp.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>That was when his world changed.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>He gained </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>confidence.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>He found that </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>he had a talent for making people laugh,</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>And laugh so hard they </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>often had tears in their eyes.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Yes, little Jesse had found </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>himself.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>You know the history books are full of people</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Who overcame a handicap </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>to go on and make a success</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Of themselves, but Jesse </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>is one of the few I know of</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Who didn't overcome it. </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Instead he used his paranoia</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>To make a million </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>dollars, and become one of</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>The best-loved </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>characters of all time in doing it!</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Yes, that little paranoid </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>hypochondriac, who transferred</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>His nervousness into a </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>successful career, still holds the</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Record for the most </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Emmy's given in a single category.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>The wonderful, gifted, talented, and </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>nervous comedian</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Who brought us </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Barney Fife</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em>Was</em></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em>Jesse Don </em></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em>Knotts.</em></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1120036, member: 1246"] [CENTER][B][U]Jessie the chicken plucker[/U][/B][/CENTER] What a wonderful story ---- I never knew............ A DREAMER AND HIS DREAM. Let me tell you, Jesse hated this job. And you would too, [B]Imagine, if you had to [/B] [CENTER][B]do it.[/B] [B]Jesse was a chicken plucker. That's right. He stood on a line in a chicken factory and spent his days[/B] [B]Pulling the feathers off dead chickens so the rest of us[/B] [B]Wouldn't have to.[/B] [B]It wasn't much of a job. But at the time,[/B] [B]Jesse didn't think he was much of a person.[/B] [B]His father was a brute of a man. His dad was actually thought to be mentally ill[/B] [B]And treated Jesse rough all of his life. Jesse's older brother wasn't much better. He was always picking on Jesse and beating him up.[/B] [B]Yes, Jesse grew up in a very rough home in[/B] [B]West Virginia. Life was anything but easy.[/B] [B]And he thought life didn't hold much hope for him. That's why he was standing in this chicken line,[/B] [B]Doing a job that darn few people wanted. In addition to all the rough treatment at home, it seems[/B] [B]That Jesse was always sick. Sometimes it was real[/B] [B]physical illness, but way too often it was all in his head.[/B] [B]He was a small child, skinny and meek. That sure didn't help the situation any. When he started to school, he was the object[/B] [B]of every Bully on the playground. He was a hypochondriac of the first order. For Jesse, tomorrow was not always something[/B] [B]he looked forward to.[/B] [B]But, he had dreams. He wanted to be a ventriloquist.[/B] [B]He found books on ventriloquism. He practiced with[/B] [B]Sock puppets and saved his hard earned dollars until[/B] [B]He could get a real ventriloquist dummy. When he got old enough, he joined the military.[/B] [B]And even though many of his hypochondriac symptoms[/B] [B]Persisted, the military did recognize his talents and[/B] [B]Put him in the entertainment corp. That was when his world changed. He gained confidence.[/B] [B]He found that he had a talent for making people laugh,[/B] [B]And laugh so hard they often had tears in their eyes. Yes, little Jesse had found himself. You know the history books are full of people[/B] [B]Who overcame a handicap to go on and make a success[/B] [B]Of themselves, but Jesse is one of the few I know of[/B] [B]Who didn't overcome it. Instead he used his paranoia[/B] [B]To make a million dollars, and become one of[/B] [B]The best-loved characters of all time in doing it! Yes, that little paranoid hypochondriac, who transferred[/B] [B]His nervousness into a successful career, still holds the[/B] [B]Record for the most Emmy's given in a single category. The wonderful, gifted, talented, and nervous comedian[/B] [B]Who brought us Barney Fife[/B] [B][I]Was[/I][/B] [B][I]Jesse Don Knotts.[/I][/B] [B][I][/I][/B][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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