# Quotable Foghorn Leghorn! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2002, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-foghorn-leghorn/141120 "2002-12-07T11:26:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-foghorn-leghorn/141120/21 "2002-12-09T03:45:05Z")
“That boy is busier than two centipedes at a toe-counting contest!” - Jinx 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-foghorn-leghorn/141120/22 "2002-12-09T03:51:05Z")
It’s not a Foghornism, but it was directed at Foghorn Leghorn when the Chicken Hawk begs his father to take him on his first hunt for a chicken. But, the young Chicken Hawk doesn’t know what a chicken looks like! Of course, Foghorn tricks the unsuspecting Chicken Hawk to go after the Dog as a pheasant, IIRC. Eventually, the Dog makes the Chicken Hawk realize he’s no pheasant hawk, and he goes after Foghorn Leghorn once more. Then, his father comes by, tired of listening to Foghorn run his yap and says: “That’s no chicken, son…that’s a loud-mouthed snook!” - Father of the Chicken Hawk! The cartoon ends with the young Chicken Hawk saying: “Chicken or Snook, either way he’ll look good on my table!” - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![I\_am\_Sparticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@I\_am\_Sparticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_am_Sparticus)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-foghorn-leghorn/141120/23 "2002-12-09T03:52:47Z")
Another vote for: “fortunately, ah keep mah feathers numbahed for just such an emergency.” ---
**Author:** ![Swede\_Hollow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Swede\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swede_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-foghorn-leghorn/141120/24 "2002-12-10T01:15:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Papermache Prince \* > \*\*Hear Foghorn Leghorn [here](http://www.earthstation1.com/Foghorn_Leghorn.html). > > And the human original, the fictional Senator Cleghorn, [here](http://www.earthstation1.com/radio.html). \*\* Kenny Delmar as _Senator Beuaregard Claghorn_ on **The Fred Allen Show** premiered in late 1945. His character was based on a Texas rancher that had given him a ride once. _Foghorn Leghorn_ premiered in 1946, not very long after the premier of _Senator Claghorn_. Cartoons record the voice track before doing any of the animation, and animation back then was all done by hand. It would have been excedingly difficult to hear the character on **The Fred Allen Show** , base the voice on _Senator Claghorn_, then animate the 'toon in such a short time. Plus the character name of _Foghorn Leghorn_ was given to the character even before a voice had been developed for it. _Foghorn Leghorn_ was based on a Vaudeville character that Mel Blanc saw many years earlier (and who was probably also the source for another similar character on the older radio program “Blue Monday Jamboree”). Source: **That’s Not All Folks!** by Mel Brooks (with Philip Bashe). I second **Jinx** ’s “I better not look…I just might be in there!” as one of the best quotes. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-foghorn-leghorn/141120/25 "2002-12-10T02:32:13Z")
One of my favorites, about Prissy Hen: “That gal reminds me of the road between Dallas and Fort Worth. No curves.” But yes, Jinx’s is one of the best. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-foghorn-leghorn/141120/26 "2002-12-10T02:42:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shade \* > \*\*Not him personally but “Ah say, ah say, ONE o’ these things has justgotta be a horse!” \*\* Wasn’t that the baby chickenhawk saying, “One of these things, ah say one of these things, has **got** to be a chicken!” ? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotable-foghorn-leghorn/141120.md?page=1)