I always thought they were chicken....

Slipknot is suing Burger King for having an ad that has some faux circus metal act made of folks with horror chicken masks to promote some clucker product. The ad band is called Coq Roq. Apparently the band looks too much like Slipknot and infringes on their trademarks.

If it is not immediately obvious, this is funny on so many levels, not the least of which being:

1. You would think at this point that these kinds of metal acts (which are the ugly, monotonal-distorted, retarded variation of boy-bands) would be happy that they have become so saturated with society that they now are being used in advertising for food that tastes as bad as they sound. Hey, even Target has warped Sir Mix a Lot's Baby Got Back into a back to school product anthem.

2. If they are willing to sue BK, why not sue the many bands that also use or have recently used stupid level of facepaint and costuming to mask the fact that their musical usefulness is limited, like Marilyn Manson, Mushroomhead and Insane Clown Posse?

3. Better yet, why hasn't Alice Cooper and Gwar sued Slipknot?

4. From the article, "Slipknot fans have expressed confusion and criticism over what they think is Slipknot endorsing Burger King." Slipknot fans are stupid. Slipknot is stupid. Slipknot fans do not express confusion...they are confused by default.