"Clean as a Safeway chicken" (law enforcement lingo?)

[Charles Doyle]

I heard that on The Closer last night too.  I assumed the
expression would have to be used (and interpreted)
ironically; I can't imagine a Safeway chicken is really
very "clean"--not nearly as clean as a whistle!

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:17:08 EDT
>From: Bapopik at AOL.COM
>Subject: "Clean as a Safeway chicken" (law enforcement
lingo?)
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
>I was watching THE CLOSER. My wife likes to repeat Kyra
Sedgwick's  trademark "Thank you!"
>...
>One police detective pronounced some suspect "clean as a
Safeway  chicken."

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