Re: "Rubber
Chicken"
Posted by R. Berg on December
03, 2001 In Reply to: Re: "Rubber Chicken"
posted by Barney on December 03, 2001
: : : : In current comedy
the phrase "rubber chicken" is occaisionally used. Can anyone provide insight
into the meaning (I suspect vulgar!) or origin of this phrase please?
: : :
Sometimes a rubber chicken is just a rubber chicken. Anyone have a different take
on the subject? There are rubber chicken "novelty items," although what's funny
about that escapes me. Then, isn't there an expression, "the rubber chicken circuit"?
A lecture tour, etc., where the presenter has to dine at a series of banquets
featuring rubbery chicken?
: : A rubber chicken is ALWAYS funny, like a spit
take, bodily noises, and the word "pickle." It's gold, Jerry, pure gold. As for
banquets on the rubber chicken circuit, yes, they exist too, and they're NEVER
funny.
: Strange to relate, I've encountered a number of rubber chickens in
my time and have noted two facts; none had feathers but all came complete with
head wings and feet. Now I don't know about anybody else but I find a bald chicken
singularly unfunny however many odd and 'un-chicken-like' noises it may make.
On rubber chickens I vote a resounding 'Not A Bit Funny'.
: The rubber chicken
circuit is very real with the chicken appearing under all guises but always sharing
the characteristics of inedible rubber.
The rubber chicken was a traditional
prop in two-man vaudeville comedy acts. One comedian would hit the other with
it. It can still be had at joke shops. A typical one is shown at http://www.surprise.com/traits/humor/rubber_chicken.cfm
(link below).
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