# what was the chicken greeting in indiana jones and the last crusade? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-chicken-greeting-in-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/230622 "2004-02-23T05:48:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![writ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/47e85d/32.png) [@writ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/writ)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-chicken-greeting-in-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/230622/1 "2004-02-23T05:48:59Z")
when dr. jones senior sneaks into the nazi tank, he is surprised to meet the museum curator guy – and they do a weird call and response greeting, part of it involves a bizarre chicken dance. what is this? is it some ivy league handshake? a 1920s pop song reference? ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-chicken-greeting-in-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/230622/2 "2004-02-23T05:56:51Z")
[thread=240248]Is this what you’re talking about?[/thread] “Genius of the Restoration” “Aid to our Resuscitation” ---
**Author:** ![writ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/47e85d/32.png) [@writ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/writ)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-chicken-greeting-in-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/230622/3 "2004-02-23T19:58:28Z")
yes this is the one! since there doesn’t seem to be very much conclusive information about it, i’m starting to suspect this is purely fictitious, along the lines of ba-weep-gra-na-weep-nini-bon. Anyone have evidence to the contrary?