Keep Pluckin' That Chicken!

I've decided that I'm going to make that my new buzz-phrase.

It works really well as a snarky answer to someone who is engaged in or is going to engage in something that is so hopeless, so mind-numbingly futile, that you can only throw your hands up and say,

"Keep pluckin' that chicken!"

Mark Sanford, you're going to work on falling back in love with your wife? Keep pluckin' that chicken!

Joe Wilson, you want your Wikipedia entry to show that you did good things in Congress and look beyond your ill-mannered outburst for the rest of eternity? Keep pluckin' that chicken!

Sarah Palin, you want to be taken seriously as a human being? Keep pluckin' that chicken! You betcha!

In case you you don't know what I'm talking about, just go to YouTube and search for Ernie Anastos' F-bomb. I'm sure he had "plucking" in mind when he made the statement, but every now and then, an unfortunate rhyme will be standing nearby and will shoulder the intended word out of the way to grab its moment in the spotlight.

Happens to all of us.