Talk:The Sky Is Falling

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In the version I know, Foxy Loxy simply doesn't believe the others and takes them inside his cave where they all watch a news report on TV which states, quite clearly, that the falling acorns are NOT to be mistaken for falling skies. --67.172.99.160 20:37, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Copyright status of text?
Much of this article seems to be exactly the same as the first reference - http://www.the-real-story.com/chickenlittle/ which states that "All content is Copyright © of The Real Story 2005"

Who copied who? Stoive 01:15, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

-Yes, I just noticed that. In fact, the first three paragraphs and the list of characters is copied verbatim from that first reference. Shouldn't this be taken down?

-I just checked. Looks like the article has been plagiarized pretty well from the start by this guy: Pabter

Hey! I certainly did not plagiarize anything. Those guys must have copied the text from Wikipedia at some point. I you look carefully, the version on that page is from a newer article than the one I wrote. By the hay, WTF happened to the article? Squirmy Wormy? Dr Foxy Loxy? Someone should revert that BS into a more coherent revision. pabter 03:21, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Good point - a bunch of stuff was added by an anon a couple of weeks ago. I reverted (hopefully) all of it. - DavidWBrooks 11:11, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Rumsfeld favorite debunker
He uses "Henny Penny" to deny the US will invade a country...

Chicken Licken?
This is probably not any version of the fable name. It's a derivation for a food chain name, note "Licken" -> "Licking". I have corrected this (possibly surreptitious advertising) by redirecting and fixing links. The restaurant can now be found under its own name, and it points here, but not the other way around. --Janke | Talk 10:48, 11 September 2006 (UTC)


 * To clarify: The restaurant page has a link (not a redirect) here (since the name is derivated from the fable), but there's no need to link to the restaurant from here - that's pure advertising. However, I've re-inserted the Chicken Licken name for the fable, Google confirms it, and made the page "Chicken Licken" a disambig, to both here and the restaurant article. --Janke | Talk 15:08, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

further clarification This certainally IS a name used in many versions of the text and is nothing to do with Kentucky-based fast food! in Europe, the name Chicken Licken is more common than the alternate 'Chicken Little' with examples of the name pre-dating KFC. Eg. Enid Blyton's telling of Aesops Fables published in 1925.

As noted in the article, ALL the characters are generally given rhyming names. It would make sense to accept that Chicken Licken is the original name as Licken rhymes with Chicken...but that many contributors to this article were raised with the character named Chicken Little and are letting personal nursery-embedded prejudices cloud their weighting to which name is given.

to avoid dispute, i have re-worded as many references as possible to refer simply to "the chicken". There is no need to repeatedly use one name or the other..the opening sentences explain that the chicken is known by differing names. If these changes are reverted, i will assume that this is done to encourage the dispute i'm trying to avoid and will report as necessary. just because you remember your mom telling you something - doesnt mean it's either true, or the only truth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.32.13.92 (talk) 14:14, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Additional Comment: I have specifically used the name 'Chicken Licken' in references to the rhyming names of the characters. it makes no sense to refer to a list of characters with rhyming names...and to start it with the name of a character 'chicken little'. that doesn't rhyme. this has previously been reverted from earlier edits showing editorial disregard for context. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.32.13.92 (talk) 14:18, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Idiom
The idiom, of the sky falling, is based on the notion (which turns out to be nearly universal among scientifically naive cultures) that the world had a solid ceiling. I think it would do for this dab to link to firmament or, better still, toward any content on the idiom specifically, but such a link doesn't quite fit into any of the categories that the links are currently grouped into. Cesiumfrog (talk) 13:38, 23 January 2011 (UTC)