So, what do you think he’s reading those entrails with?
And the poor fellow for sure said “fucking”.
And I’ve heard a similar phrase: “Just keep on fucking that chicken”. I am from Bakersfield, so… Well, let’s just say I’ve known (not in the bibical sense) a lot of farm boys.
Peace,
mangeorge
It’s gonna be my new expression of encouragment.
“I’ve got a 20 page paper due by tomorrow noon and I’ve only got the outline done!”
“Just keep fucking that chicken, dude.”
“The doctor says the cancer is inoperable.”
“Whoa, just keep fucking that chicken.”
In his autobiography “An Unseemly Man”, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt stated that his first sexual experience was with a chicken. Whatever one might think of him, one has to admire that level of authorial honesty.
Chicken Fucker! Do you need assistance!?
It sounded like “flucking” to me, and had I been watching the newscast without all the hoopla, I doubt I would have even noticed it, since “keep,” ending with a “p” preceded it. My mind probably would have elided the faint “f” sound entirely.
OK, too much thinking about Tolkien lately. I spent two full minutes trying to figure out why you were so emphatically telling someone to go to a treeherd. :smack:
Sorry if someone already mentioned this–I read an explanation somewhere shortly after it happened that “keep fuckin’ that chicken” is a KFC joke, which in other (non-nationally-televised) contexts might be a perfectly plausible follow-up to the Purdue-slogan crack.
See that bridge. I built that bridge. But do they call me **TWDuke **the bridge-builder?
There have been explanations of the origin of the phrase, but most of them seem like after-the-fact guesses with no documentation of prior use ((e.g., “fucking the chicken” is a journalistic phrase meaning flogging a boring or trivial story - yeah, sure it is).
There’s an old joke that ends “Mum’s in the kitchen fucking the chicken.” It could have been some odd stream of consciousness that went from take off on poultry marketing slogan to punchline of off-color joke.
If that were true there would be some reference to the phrase being related to KFC somewhere on the internet before Anastos said it. Google brings up nothing.
Looks like you’re right.
Zero reliability in terms of a cite, but here’s where I read it, second comment down. I’m not claiming that proves anything–just the offhand tone of the comment seemed believable at the time I read it.
Oddly, as I went poking around to see if I could find any other reference, I turned up that exact word-for-word comment on a bunch of different sites where the video had been posted. 
For no good reason whatsoever (not safe for workplaces that disapprove of the word “fucker”): Super Troopers
“Chicken” was once (maybe still is) a “term of endearmant” for a young boy among the gay community.
Oh, yeah.
Harry Von Zell, after a long and distinguished career in radio and television announcing, died in 1981. What was the lead in his obituary? His 1931 gaffe in introducing the President of the United States as “Hoobert Heever”.
Indeed – according to an acquaintance who worked for Flynt many years ago, he’s got a statue of the event in his foyer.
–Cliffy
Video and audio slowed down:
Definitely “fuckin’”