The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for November 24, 2023

Overheard at KFC: “That Myrtle, she always did have those heavy thighs!”

Those sloppy workmen are going to cockerel up the project.

Over the years I worked with many good ol’ boys in factories. They were a long way from home, having grown up in Southern states like Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. But they retained colorful sayings concerning women and “romance” that would turn the faces of current young women red in indignation.

I remember many of those sayings, and as a young man thought them very funny in their shockingly nonchalant crudeness. Times have changed, and darn it — I don’t dare repeat them here, even with substituting euphemisms.

Wanna has her for dinner eh.

In real life the roosters end up on the dinner table first, as one rooster is enough in the henhouse, hens do not crow, nor fight, and they lay eggs!

Typical. The ones doing the catcalls are really just chickens.

“I could just eat you up.”

“After work, let’s have some drinks and get fried!”

Should I assume TN hot chicken is a food?

If you’ll be my Dixie Chicken, I’ll be your Tennessee Lamb.

How about “Dixie Chicken?” >

Turkeys are so rude!!!

First gobbler wants to drill her.

“You’re the only 10 I see”

I thought Kentucky had a monopoly on the phrase “finger lickin’ good.”

At least he said “legs” and not “breast(s).”

Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! Otherwise known as the cat-call.

Is her name Hope? She has feathers.

She’s an easy lay.

You boys get it all out of your system yet?

As opposed to a Kentucky fried chicken that just sits around all day enjoying those secret herbs?