Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> > ???? Do they have Frank Perdue chickens in France?  Say it ain't so,
> > Joe!
>
> Wel, since I have no idea what you're referring to, I'll say it indeed ai= > n't
> so ;))) . What is it about? :)
Well, you said "It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang", which
immediately echoed the very well known (in this country) slogan of the Perdue
Chicken company, "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken".  Unlike most
corporations, the ads for this company are (or were) actually narrated by the
founder of the company, Frank Perdue.

(According to legend, this chicken slogan got dreadfully mangled in Spanish,
coming out "It takes a hard man to arouse a chicken" or something of the sort.
Take this cum grano salis.)

And then my mind was running on military matters for some reason, and the
"franc-tireur/enfant-perdu" hybrid naturally arose in it.

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