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Man crows virtues of Big Chicken flag
Posted at: Monday, March 1, 2004, 03:57 PM
One man’s love for Georgia … and the Big Chicken, is unflappable.
While hundreds outside the state Capitol hooted and hollered for, or against, a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage, Johnny D’Farmer tried to scratch up support for a new state flag featuring Marietta’s famed oversized hen.
Dressed in overalls, green-and-white striped shirt and yellow bandana, the two-time unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Marietta passed out fliers displaying the Big Chicken Flag alongside standards he labelled “The Early Georgia Flag,” “The Roy Barnes Flag,” and “The Sonny Perdue Flag.”
“Thousand of Georgians love the Big Chicken,” proclaimed D’Farmer, chairman of the board of the Friends of the Big Chicken Association.
“We all live in the shadow of the Big Chicken,” D’Farmer pressed to passersby, his dyed-red hair burning as brightly as his desire to honor the Cobb County landmark.
“We can all learn from her. Her flag would unite us, not divide us,” he crowed, loud and as proud as any Georgia rooster.
— Patricia Guthrie, ajc.com
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