Yes, but did he?
I love the look on the female anchor's face.
"Keep f---ing that chicken" appears to have no widely-understood meaning, with commenters on US blogs suggesting that he probably meant to say plucking.
I like the thought of Telegraph reporter Moore searching desperately on Urbandictionary.com trying to figure out what this charming Americanism might mean.
Holy Christ, that is the funniest thing I've seen in *years.*
"Keep f---ing that chicken" appears to have no widely-understood meaning, with commenters on US blogs suggesting that he probably meant to say plucking.
Commenters on US blogs are probably mistaken.
with commenters on US blogs suggesting that he probably meant to say plucking.
When I want to encourage the UPS guy, that's what I usually say: "Keep plucking that chicken."
???
Maybe "tender forecast" made him think of chickens? Because chickens are tender. But not if you overcook them!
We take you live now to England, where everyone has only one spoon.
Well, there is an extended Frank Perdue joke going on (why?) -- "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken forecast" etc. So yeah I think he intended to say "plucking."
The best part is the weather guy responding, "OK, I'll do that."
Do iPod headphones not work in PC computers or is my headset jack broken?
You know how if you spend a lot of time with someone, you grow to resemble each other more over time? This was true of Frank Perdue and chickens.
11: iPod headphones are normal headphones; they should work. Are you sure (1) that you're in the right output and (2) that your computer's sound is not muted and/or volumed down?
Got it now. I've never hook-up sound for this machine, but chicken loving was sufficient motivation.
So yeah I think he intended to say "plucking."
I think it's more likely he was thinking of
this.
maybe Mr Weatherman runs a bookmobile on the weekend. maybe
Saying "you keep plucking that chicken" after an extended riff on a decades old chicken advertising slogan is, in itself, pretty pathetic.
I will never stop laughing. Crying?
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), upset by crowded conditions on the D.C. subway during this weekend's "Tea Party," sent a letter to "Washington's Metro system complaining that the taxpayer-funded subway system was unable to properly transport protesters to the rally to protest government spending and expansion.
'These individuals came all the way from Southeast Texas to protest the excessive spending and growing government intrusion by the 111th Congress and the new Obama administration,' Brady wrote. 'These participants, whose tax dollars were used to create and maintain this public transit system, were frustrated and disappointed that our nation's capital did not make a great effort to simply provide a basic level of transit for them.'"
Also, Molly notes that it is fun to move the emphasis around in the phrase: "You keep fucking THAT chicken"
And "YOU, keep fucking that chicken"
You KEEP fucking that chicken. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You keep! Fucking that, chicken.
Diminishing returns are my watchword.
PETA is encouraging geese or turkeys on the grounds of lesser cruelty.
You keep fucking!
[aside] That chicken...
No, I'll have the veal, thanks. [keeps fucking that]
NO THANKS I'D PREFER THE LIVER
I keep hearing the phrase to the tune of "I'm Fucking Matt Damon."
31: That's a side effect of most over-the-counter sinus meds.
Maybe "tender forecast" made him think of chickens? Because chickens are tender. But not if you overcook them!
if you fuck a chicken long and hard enough, you will eventually tenderize it.
I feel like [fucking a] chicken tonight!
Keep on plucking that mother pheasant, you pleasant mother pheasant plucker.
36: From that link:
The American version of the product quickly failed; however, it is still popular in Australia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, where there exists spin-off products such as "Beef Tonight", and more recently "Sausages Tonight".
!!!
38: And that article was a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. After expanding it, you can reflect on your poor time-use decisions.
3: I don't dare look it up at work, but wasn't there a joke on an early South Park episode about fucking a chicken? As in, it's very difficult? That's probably what he was thinking of.
40: The link in 17 is what you are thinking of.
There is, of course, also the Sandler tune.
#38. What a missed opportunity to name "Sausages Tonight" "Sausage Time!"
A certain relevant google image search doesn't seem to provide the results it once did. Very sad.
41: Ah, duh. Not only do I not dare google "south park chicken sex" at work, I don't even dare follow links in comment threads.
Actually, I usually do follow links, but I copy-paste them into something else first so that I can see if it's something blocked. I guess I just missed that one.
Perhaps Ernie was making a reference to a joke, the canonical version of which I can't seem to turn up on brief googling, whose punchline is something like, "You should have been here yesterday. Some guy was fucking a chicken!"
44: I guess the image didn't depict the kind of extracurricular activity a hiring committee is usually looking for.
" A great chicken like that, you don't fuck it all at once!"
*cackle*
I just watched it again. This will never get old.
This is why they usually script the banter.
That theory didn't work so well for Ron "Go fuck yourself San Diego!" Burgundy.
As a professional Internet comment reader, this has got to be the funniest thread I've ever read.
I mean, 27! "You! Keep Fucking! That? Chicken?"
Because chickens are tender. But not if you overcook them!
Who fucks a cooked chicken, pervert.
This is about chicken, but really more about peoples' kids not eating.
"Of all the possible mispronunciations of that name, you seem to have stumbled upon absolutely the worst one.
55: My father still yells "I will shove it up your ass" when I say I don't want to eat something. It is an issue.
I've never met your dad, but I'll bet if you dropped your pants and gave him the brown wink, it would be the last time he said that to you.
58 sounds like a recipe for pot roast up the ass.
Or, AWturducken.
hmm, you guys I'm feeling nervous. you see, the only ever fly in the ointment is that the landlord of the dream house is a bit on the active alcoholic side (I originally met her through the program but she's not sober). so just now a friend told me that her friend C. has also been offered the place, as a roommate with the girl currently living there. (landlord just goes back and forth from Bangkok and is rarely there) C's only ever talked to the roommate while I've been in contact with the actual lease-holder, as I found out when I talked to her just now. so that gives me hope that the landlord is fucking over the roommate rather than me. she did say at some point, we have to get this decided so I can let the roommate know, i.e. said roomie doesn't yet know she might be about to get kicked out. but who knows? I think C. already gave notice on her current place. somebody is getting screwed in this situation and I just hope it's not me. the fact is that taking on more roommates is easier than emptying out your whole house for people to move into. but that's why I've offered to do all this furniture-selling and arranginating for landlord girl. maybe I should up my offer slightly? it's already at the very outmost edge of affordable, though. fingers crossed till we get that goddamn lease signed. and keep fucking that chicken.
did iggy pop ever sue the band JET over "are you gonna be my girl" being a note-for-note ripoff of "lust for life"? he fucking should have.
60: Hm, yuck, and thanks for the update. Is there any way to chat up some of the landlord's other tenants who are in other places? Normally I'd advocate for chatting up the current tenants, but that sounds like a nonstarter.
Also, does she own chickens?
61: Wikipedia agrees, with qualifications:
"Are You Gonna Be My Girl" is a song by the Australian rock band Jet, featured on their 2003 album Get Born. It was the first single from the album, released in 2003 in Australia and the UK, and in 2004 in the United States. The song is often cited for similarities to Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" and The White Stripes's "Screwdriver".[1][2] However, the beat has been found to have been common in numerous 60s' Motown songs, including "I'm Ready For Love" by Martha And The Vandellas and "You Can't Hurry Love" by The Supremes.
Jet have also 'paid tribute' to songs by Oasis, and AC/DC. Ripping of Oasis is really some kind of meta-ripping-off, mind.
she does rent out one other place in singapore, a penthouse condo she owns, but I really have no way of contacting those people. basically it's hard to get a lease for a black-and-white colonial house, all of which are owned by the government and then managed by a quasi-private firm. this woman wants to spend all her time in bangkok rather than just most of it, but doesn't want to lose her precious lease, hence she wants me to take it over with the proviso that she can sleep there occasionally when she's in town. I know her to be something between flaky and unethical from previous encounters but have been willing to overlook the possible disadvantages of having a sketchy landlord because the house is so amazing and the rent so awesome. so I'm not exactly surprised someone is getting screwed, I just don't want it to be me. and actually, now that I've talked to C. I feel somewhat sorry for her too. just not sorry enough that I don't hope I WILL TRIUMPH.
I hate it when I'm the only one awake. or maybe (euro time-zone) people are actually working? no response to emails or texts from mystery landlord. whoooo knooows?
And I wish you well in triumphing over flaky landlords.
Geez Ala, do u really want landlord grief in u r life?
(awake, but pinned to the sofa w/ one arm free)
Also awake, and working. Not that that stops me checking Unfogged.*
* large chunks of my job involve waiting for files to move around.
yeah, I know, if she's this flaky now what will she come up with during the tenancy. urg. if it wasn't my actual dream house...I am biting my nails off. should be settled one way or another soon, but I feel like I have been waiting for stressful things to happen for too long.
How many people know she's on the sauce? Maybe ttaM can calmly explain to her that you mean serious f'ing business. Blackmail is the best mail.
I have keys to the place and it was funny to go over and see basically nothing in the kitchen except 6 or 7 bottles of various flavors of absolut. she wants to have a kid and it's my hope that realizing she can't not drink while pregnant will bring her back into the AA fold, we'll see. she doesn't think it's a problem, or not THE problem. unless people think that they aren't willing to quit. it's insidious like that.
If you are subletting, are you legally protected or is this a gray-market lease? The house sounds fantastic, but a semi-honest landlord like that can make it ++ungood. Big potential for lots of drama.
she doesn't think it is a problem. Oy.
nothing in the kitchen except 6 or 7 bottles of various flavors of absolut
All that fruit — that's like 2000% of her RDA vitamins and minerals right there!
Is it just me or is flavored vodka the Boone's Farm of the no longer young set?
On the OP: Jon Stewart did a funny bit on Anastos, which was even funnier when I didn't know what was coming.
This piece on the history of attempted invasions of Afghanistan is also quite worth watching.
Oops, I mean that 32 as a response to 31 is extremely funny. (Sorry, Bave.)
