A miniature outhouse with toilet stands beside a folded paper ghost, empty clawfoot bath and empty blue-covered bed.

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Brick Tamland

I pooped a Cornish game hen.

— Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy • 2004

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker claims to have passed a Cornish game hen, making an impossible bodily boast in fictional dialogue. It is absurd bathroom humour, rather than a factual account.

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