# new KFC commercial kids playing baseball...OH SNAP! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2010, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kfc-commercial-kids-playing-baseball-oh-snap/541273 "2010-05-30T07:40:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kfc-commercial-kids-playing-baseball-oh-snap/541273/21 "2010-06-01T16:15:40Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > If Urban Dictionary has taught me anything, it’s that you can’t walk five feet without tripping over some perfectly ordinary word that has been repurposed as the name for some sexual act. Huh huh huh…you said “repurposed”…huh huh huh. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kfc-commercial-kids-playing-baseball-oh-snap/541273/22 "2010-06-01T16:26:15Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > The new trend is to repurpose a dirty word for a political organization. Perhaps you mean the other way around. If not, I’m totally voting the straight dirty sanchez ticket in 2012. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kfc-commercial-kids-playing-baseball-oh-snap/541273/23 "2010-06-01T22:21:16Z")
“KFC - so good you’ll want to lick the box” ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kfc-commercial-kids-playing-baseball-oh-snap/541273/24 "2010-06-02T01:13:51Z")
I guess “that’s one tasty cock, mom!” was too much to hope for. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kfc-commercial-kids-playing-baseball-oh-snap/541273/25 "2010-06-02T01:17:59Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > The new trend is to repurpose a dirty word for a political organization. > [@Enderw24](#): > > Perhaps you mean the other way around. I’m pretty sure that was a reference to _teabag, -ger, -ging_. I can’t thing of any other-way-around examples. I know there have been campaigns to associate a politician’s name with something “dirty,” e.g. _santorum_, but those aren’t organizations and I don’t know of any that have really entered the vernacular. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kfc-commercial-kids-playing-baseball-oh-snap/541273/26 "2010-06-02T06:43:25Z")
well personally I think that asking “does your mom Pitch too” is right on up there at the height of mama jokes, with the full on implication that you already “Know” that the bitch can catch but I suppose it really is just me ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kfc-commercial-kids-playing-baseball-oh-snap/541273/27 "2010-06-02T11:45:30Z")
I have a sense of humor that stopped at age twelve, but even I think you are reading more into the commercial than is reasonable. It is not even funny in your context. ---
**Author:** ![Negative\_Lite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Negative\_Lite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Negative_Lite)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kfc-commercial-kids-playing-baseball-oh-snap/541273/28 "2010-06-02T11:59:51Z")
And I thought when the other kids called my mom “Gravy Train” they were talking about the great grub … ---
**Author:** ![PetW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PetW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PetW)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kfc-commercial-kids-playing-baseball-oh-snap/541273/29 "2010-06-03T11:32:39Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > I’m pretty sure that was a reference to _teabag, -ger, -ging_. I can’t thing of any other-way-around examples. I know there have been campaigns to associate a politician’s name with something “dirty,” e.g. _santorum_, but those aren’t organizations and I don’t know of any that have really entered the vernacular. And this: > [@](#): > > In an unintentional but [hilarious nod](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/anti-gay-rights-calls-its-marriage.php) to gay sex chatters everywhere, the National Organization for Marriage has dubbed their campaign “2 Million for Marriage”. Or 2M4M. Whoops. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kfc-commercial-kids-playing-baseball-oh-snap/541273/30 "2010-06-03T16:31:47Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I have a sense of humor that stopped at age twelve, but even I think you are reading more into the commercial than is reasonable. > > It is not even funny in your context. Agreed. Unlike “teabagger”, there are far too many absolutely normal and commonplace uses of the word “pitcher” to see the OP as anything more than a stretch. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kfc-commercial-kids-playing-baseball-oh-snap/541273/31 "2010-06-03T18:09:11Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > So should I be drinking from the pitcher then? Yes, afterwards. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kfc-commercial-kids-playing-baseball-oh-snap/541273.md?page=1)