From Gee Gee's albums #4

Scan12022, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Michael Christensen once told me that an early Big Apple review complimented the juggling of Binder & Stubbs explaining how cleverly they had tossed around clubs, balls, torches and even a chicken. A few days later an officer from the NY Humane Society arrived stating that he had received an animal abuse complaint regarding the juggling of a chicken. Michael led the officer to the back area and dug around until he came up with an equipment bag and whispered "He's inside!" with an elaborate flourish reached in and produced an item similar to the one above. I can't recall the name of the name of the clown with Sid Kellner's show that had the "Vanishing Chicken" shot from a cannon (he had a slight accent and called it a "canyon") into a suspended bird cage. Maybe Erik remembers him. "Boys and girls, I will now place the chicken into the canyon and at the speed of lightening will be shot through space and reappear in the cage high above ring 1". After much ado the cannon was fired, the shroud over the cage dropped and "Lo and Behold" the impossible had been accomplished. The kids would immediately begin screaming, demanding to a closer inspection of the cannon, an accusation he would deny but while exiting would pull a cord releasing the original chicken, to the satisfaction of the kids with the denial, "That's not my chicken!" This immediately became the catchphrase for the entire show whenever the responsibility of a problem arose. Even Uncle Sid when confronted would say, "That ain't my chicken Pal!".