A lawmaker who proposed exhuming the remains of U.S. servicemen buried in France has received a smelly package of chicken bones in the mail.

Because of France's lack of support for the war in Iraq, U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida proposed that the remains of American soldiers buried in France and Belgium should be exhumed and returned to the United States. The "Bones for Peace" campaign by the German magazine Titanic encouraged its readers to mail bones to Brown-Waite in response to her proposal.

Why the readers choose to send the bones of chickens remains a mystery.

I have collected a serie of chicken jokes you can use if you're out of gags for April 1st:

1- The Rubber Chicken: Find out new ways to create histercial laughter around you with this classic gag!

http://store.yahoo.com/thegag/13-0025.html

2- The Chicken Joke: Test your neighbors' sense of humor by trying out this fabulous joke on them:

http://www.electricscotland.com/humour/h7.htm

3- Ask the obvious question: "Why did the chicken cross the road?" I found two sites who provide various answers to this very important question:

http://www.infiltec.com/j-chick3.htm

http://www.walrus.com/~gibralto/chick2.html