Foghorn Leghorn

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Foghorn Leghorn is a large, Southern-accented anthropomorphic adult rooster appearing in numerous Warner Brothers animated cartoons, especially Looney Tunes. Foghorn's voice was created by actor Mel Blanc, patterned after the character of Senator Claghorn, a blustering Southern politician who was a regular character on the Fred Allen radio show.

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• "That boy's about as sharp as a bowlin' ball!"
• "Son, I said, son..."
• "Here's a match. Now, don't set the world on fire."
• "Boy, your lips are movin' but you ain't sayin' nothin'!"
• "Nice boy, but he doesn't pay attention to a word you say."
• "I say!, I say!, The boy is bozerk!!"
• "Clunk enough people and we'll have a nation of lumpheads!"
• "Nice girl, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice."
• "That woman's as cold as a nudist on an iceberg."
• "She reminds me of Paul Revere's ride - a little light in the belfry."
• "Gal reminds me of the highway between Ft. Worth and Dallas - no curves."
• "As bare as a cooch dancer's midriff."
• "Say boy, you cover about as much as a flapper's skirt in a high wind!"
• "She's tryin' to make a pantywaist out of that poor kid."
• "That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver."
• "If that kid don't stop talkin' so much, he'll get his tongue sunburned."
• "Well, barbeque my hamhocks!"
• "That dog's as subtle as a hand grenade in a barrel of oatmeal."
• "That boy, I say, that boy's as strong as an ox! And just about as smart."
• "Look sister, is any of this filterin' through that little blue bonnet of yours?" (receives answer "Yes.") * "Well, woman, blink your eyes or somethin! Yeesh!"
• "You're doin' a lot of choppin' but no chips are flyin'!"
• "I've got this boy as fidgety as a bubble dancer with a slow leak."
• "You look like two miles of bad road."
• "That boy's just like a tattoo - gets under your skin."
• "This is gonna cause more confusion than a mouse in a burlesque show!"
• "I-I-I know what you're gonna say, son. When two halves is gone, there's nuthin' left - and you're right! It's a little ol' worm who wasn't there! Two nuthins is nuthin'. That's mathematics, son! You can argue with me but you can't argue with figures. Two half nuthins is a whole nuthin'!"
• "Lookit here, son, I say, son, did ya see that hawk after those hens? He scared 'em! That Rhode Island Red turned white. Then blue. Rhode Island. Red, white, and blue! That's a joke, son! A flag waver."
• "You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin' 'em and you keep missin' 'em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball! Eye. Ball. Eyeball! I almost had a gag, son. Joke, that is."
• "Okay, I'll shut up. Some fellas have to keep their tongues flappin' but not me. I was brought up right. My pa used to tell me to shut up and I'd shut up. I wouldn't say nothin'. One time darn near starved to death. WOULDN'T TELL HIM I WAS HUNGRY!"
• "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency!"
• "Boy's like a dead horse - got no get up and go."
• "Pay attention, boy! I'm cuttin' but you ain't bleedin'!"
• "Mutts - I say - mutts is nuts!"
• "I don't think this kid's got all his marbles. Shakes his head when he means yes and nods when he means no."
• "That boy's so dumb, he thinks a Mexican border pays rent!"
• "I don't need your love to keep me warm, Widow Hen. I have my bandages to keep me warm!"
• "You've gotta be a magician to keep a kid's attention more than two minutes nowadays!"
• "That sensitive mind won't stand being picked on!"
• "That dawg's busier than a centipede at a toe-counting contest."
• "Hey, Dawg! I've come to bury the hatchet! Heh heh heh. Not in your pointed head, Boy. I brung you a peace offerin'!"
• "The snow's so deep, the farmers have to jack up the cows so they can milk 'em!"
• "...an electric bowling ball, and an electric clock, tells you when it's time to bowl!"
• "That dawg is strictly G.I. - Gibbering Idiot, that is!"
• "My foot's getting hotter than a sweat-band in a fireman's helmet!"
• "OH that woman! Gotta mouth like an outboard moter, all the time putputputputputput!"
• "That boy's as timid as a canary at a cat-show."
• "I need, I say, I need a pointer, and that dog's got just the head for it. Pointed, that is!"
• "Go away, boy! Or I'll spank you where your feathers are thinnest!"
• "Boy's got a mouth like a cannon, always shooting it off."
• "Some like to bowl on the green, I'm gonna bowl on the white!"
• "Whatta ya doin' with a pump? Pumpin' for oil? You're crazy, boy. There's no oil within 500 miles of here. Geology of the ground's all wrong. Even if there WAS oil you'd need a drill not a tire pump."
• "Speakin' of figures, I put 2 and 2 together and come up with a 4-legged, smart alec mutt!"
• "Smart boy, got a mind like a steel trap - full of mice."
• "I said, now, I said, pay attention, boy!"
• "Well, hog gravy and chitlins!"
• "Y'know, I almost hated to spring one on that bonehead. Hey. I made a funny. Spring! Bone!"
• "Punchy as a drill press."
• "His muscles are as soggy as a used tea bag."
• "Nutty as a fruitcake."
• "Stand up, son, you're fallin' all over yourself."
• "You've gotta learn to stand on your own two feet, boy. I may not always be around to help you!"
• "It don't snow in the summertime. There's no 'r' in July."
• "Are you lookin' for a husband? Well, you're goin' about it all wrong, girlie. You don't bat him on the bean with a rollin' pin." (To audience) "That comes later."
• "Now to slip one under ol' squarebritches, hee hee hee."
• "My corn hurts. It must be goin' to snow."
• "Now what's that dog makin' all the hoop dee do about?"
• "Now what's the big idea bashin' me in the bazooka thataway, boy?"
• "Now that's no way for a kid to be wastin' his time, readin' that longhead gobbledygook."
• "There's somethin', I say, there's somethin' kinda yeeee about a kid that's never played baseball."
• (Looking through a telescope) "I don't see no flyin' saucer. All I see is air with a hole around it."
• "I don't see no hula hula girls."
• "We have been flim-flammed!"
• "This is gonna cause more confusion than a mouse in a burlesque show!"
• "Go away, boy, ya bother me!"
• "Kid don't stop talking so much he'll get his tongue sun burned."
• "I WON! I WON! I WON!" [looks at his bride Miss Prissy] "Hey, there musta been some way I coulda lost."
• "I'm just a loud-mouthed schnook!"
• "I'll prove that your mother is the best man!"
• "Some days it don't pay to get outta bed!"
• "Are you alright, son? I keep hearing the most terrifyin' sounds in there."
• "Place your bet - Ah say - place your bets, gentlemen. Winnner plays, loser stays. Everyone's a winne - well, not everyone."
• "The dawg's busier than a centipede at a toe-counting contest!"
• "Hey, do you think the young'uns could hear us?"
• "When the little woman comes home and finds the egg gone, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! What she'll do to me!"
• "Don't take me home! I don't want to roast in any old black oven! I'm scared of the dark!!"
• "That's impossible! You can't light a twig. It's scientifically unsound." [Strikes a twig across his bottom.] "Well, boy, where's the fire?"
• "Like my old mama used to say, 'being a mother is an awful headache'!"
• "Hey, boy, I'm a battleship! Let's see you sink me!"
• "There's nothin' worse than a blabber-mouth cat."
• "He's nutty over females!"
• "I say, that chick is more mixed up than a bunch of feather in a twister!"
• "Unhand those fair barnyard flowers!"
• "I don't know what you're doin' with that bowling ball, girly, but I'm not gonna stand by and let a lady do a man's job."
• "I've lost my voice! I can't sing! It's like being choked on a rope!"
• "Well, I'm a horse, I say, I'm a horse, myself!"
• "No no, boy! You're diggin' there and you KNOW the worm is over here."
• "If he's gonna be a chicken, then I'm gonna be a chicken HAWK!"
• "WEASEL! WEASEL IN THE CHICKEN YARD! GIT 'IM, DAWG!"
• "MOUNTAIN LION! BOBCAT! COYOTE! HEEEEEEEELP!!"
• "I thought I had a sittin' duck. But it turns out he had a pigeon."
• "Someone, I say, someone mention my name?"
• "But, honeybunch, he's nuthin' but a little ol' squab!"
• "I've got a splittin' headache!"
• "That's the first time someone else shot my mouth off!"
• "You gotta, I say, you gotta keep on your toes! Toes, that is!"
• "Hey, dog, how come you do me like you do-do-do"?
• "Well, my favorite fruit, and with holdin' grips, yet"!
• "Well, we got rid of that fox, and that's only the beginnin'!"
• "I'll just have it out with the boss! It's that kid or me! One of us has gotta go!" [is seen leaving in a poutry truck] "Well - ah say - Well, if you gotta go you gotta go."
• "I'm gonna do a figure 8, foreign version - Two cheese pizzas!"
• "H'yuck yuck yuck! Loooooooooove that dawg."
• "No, I'd better not look. I just might be in there."
• "Are ya listenin', boy? Boy's about as sharp as a cue ball!"
• "Boy! Where'd you go, boy? You plum vanished!"
• "Why, Henrietta. Wha - ah say - what in the world has happened to your legs?"
• "Always hit a bone when you're digging a hole."
• "He's not a bad boy. He's the worst! Worst, that is."
• "Fishin's fun, I like to fish - Do dah, do dah! I'll catch a lot if I get my wish - Oh the do dah day!"
• "Every day it's the same thing!"
• "This is a BOY?"
• "Hey, boy...Got any more of them longhead books?"
• "Don - ah say - don't bother me, Dawg! Can't you see I'm thinkin'?"
• "Just one of those days, I guess..."
• "Let's see if you can throw it this far. And put a little pepper on it."
• "Now I can enjoy my southern exposure!"
• "....zzzzzzzzzzzzz..... ah say...... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......... that is.......... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz........"
• "Alright, gal! Turn down your fandango!"
• "That's what I've been, I say, that's what I've been tellin you, boy! I am a chicken!"
• "That's a joke, son! You missed it! Flew right by ya!"
• "Adios, you chicken-pluckin' little stinker!"
• "Don't just stand there with your beak open! Say somethin'! Explain yourself! Yer tongue's flappin' but no noise is comin' outa yer big mouth!"
• "Pay attention to me, boy! I'm not just talkin' to hear my head roar! "
• "Don't you call me, I say, don't you call me a chicken, you...chicken!"

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