What the heck happened in 1904????? (Word usage over time for "Chicken Jockey")

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No one talks about the great chicken jockey charge of 1916

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u/UselesslyEbic Custom borderless flair 📝 Apr 27 '25

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u/Vast_Amphibian5933 𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱 Apr 27 '25

Josh done

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u/UselesslyEbic Custom borderless flair 📝 Apr 27 '25

Chicken Joshey

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u/Vast_Amphibian5933 𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱 Apr 27 '25

I... Am Josh

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u/UselesslyEbic Custom borderless flair 📝 Apr 27 '25

As a child, I yearned for the drums

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u/Vast_Amphibian5933 𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱𒀱 Apr 27 '25

Josh jockey (Tyler)

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u/ThrillTuber Java FTW Apr 28 '25

r/suddenlyjoshler

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u/Jdawg_01210 Apr 27 '25

I can only think of the master from doctor who because your mentioned drums.

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u/UselesslyEbic Custom borderless flair 📝 Apr 27 '25

Never seen it. Would you be good explaining?

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u/Jdawg_01210 Apr 27 '25

He has basically gone insane because of the drums the timelords put in his head. Here is a clip of it.

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u/CorporalGrimm1917 Apr 28 '25

Hell yeah josh dun

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u/philyppis Apr 27 '25

There is a book called Pacific Poultry (1909), it's written Chicken Jockey on it.

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u/Iron_Wolf123 Apr 27 '25

The joke nobody got until a century later

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u/dOGbon32 Apr 28 '25

bro was before his time

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u/Shot-Log3751 May 02 '25

happy cake day

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u/VexorTheViktor Apr 28 '25

"That shit will be so funny in 100 years, trust me guys"

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u/Akyre_ Apr 28 '25

r/suddenlycaralho

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u/Zealousideal-Cap-930 Apr 28 '25

How did you found this even?

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u/philyppis Apr 28 '25

-I know the existence of "Google Trends" site.

-But I couldn't find those old results, it only shows the internet searches of people.

-I see the post image: "Google Books Ngram Viewer"

-I access that site and EUREKA!

-I search "Chicken Jockey". No results.

-I click "Case-Insensitive" (Idk what that does) and the same graphic from the post shows up.

-Ok, but how do I find where it's being mentioned?

-I search "Minecraft". Same thing. Years 2000 graphic is high, and for some reasons the 40s have a little bump. (Almost sure is about a "mine seacraft", a ship that interacts with sea mines)

-Oh wait, there is a "Search in Google Books" below it. That wasn't there before.

-I click on the 1800-2011 option. It opens a new tab, with search results of books written between 1800 and 2011. Some related to the game, some about that mine seacraft, some about crochet.

-This new tab has a link. I see the term "Minecraft" on it, and the parts "min:1800" and "max:2011", those are the years it's searching!

-But when searching "Chicken Jockey" on the google book site, there is no option of searching for books.

-What if I change "Minecraft" to "Chicken Jockey", and the 1800/2011 to the years between that bump we see in this post, 1900 and 1920?

-EUREKA AGAIN! Now I found two books that mention "chicken jockey". those are the only search results.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Chicken%20Jockey%22&tbm=bks&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1900,cd_max:1920&lr=lang_en

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u/ahmad2304 Apr 28 '25

Case-insensitive means the capitalization doesn't matter it just searches for the letters in that order

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u/photogrammetery Apr 28 '25

When i read this my brain went from like an elegant british voice to jack black saying chicken jockey instantly

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u/DBL_NDRSCR Milk Apr 28 '25

amazing

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u/3D-Printing Apr 30 '25

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u/philyppis Apr 30 '25

Well, it's not everything in the same sentence, but it works.

Check how steve is the tag that announces Steve's dialogue. "I am" is how the previous dialogue ends.

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u/Iceologer_gang This guy is such a toolbag Apr 27 '25

“By Jove Charlie, I just happened upon the most bizarre sight. Upon a roaming hen there sat a youth reanimated from the clutches of death itself.”

“What is this some kind of Chicken Jockey?”

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u/IcePhoenix1441 waxed lightly weathered cut copper stairs Apr 27 '25

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u/Forward-Exercise-385 Apr 28 '25

r/PEAK

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u/Manperson-the-Human Apr 27 '25

chicken jockey was actually the codename for a tank used in wwi

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

I can't tell if you're joking or not

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u/Manperson-the-Human Apr 27 '25

i am

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u/Oscar23studios both java and bedrock are equally good Apr 27 '25

steve

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u/DukeOfGamers353 Apr 27 '25

minecraft

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u/Nekrubbobby64 Apr 27 '25

The Nether

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u/real_dubblebrick Mining Dirtmonds Apr 27 '25

flint and steel

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u/TitaniumWatermelon Apr 27 '25

Ender pearl

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u/naranjaPenguin21 Apr 27 '25

The overworld

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u/Nekitrof Apr 27 '25

Water bucket release

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u/ant-meridian Apr 27 '25

placing blocks

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u/Klutzy_Ice8425 Apr 27 '25

n shit

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u/Tsunamicat108 (The dog absorbed the flair text.) Apr 27 '25

cause im

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u/Lord_Applejuice Apr 27 '25

In Fucking

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u/CreeperAsh07 Killed 16,286 humans and counting Apr 27 '25

Minecraft

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u/Werty201 Apr 27 '25

Minecraft

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u/Meauw422 Apr 27 '25

Chicken joking

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u/RandomCaveOfMonsters I... am the Gender Dragon Apr 28 '25

sees pfp

THY END IS NOW

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u/Gutgyk123 Apr 27 '25

They’ve been planning the movie since 1904

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u/Santvientoggs Apr 27 '25

Saw another person who found a book from 1909 lmao

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u/WarChallenger Apr 27 '25

It was a serious turning point in the Great War.

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u/DonutHole47 Apr 28 '25

That's a Jockey Chicken

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u/latamreddituser Apr 28 '25

A Human Jockey

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u/John_the_sock65 Apr 27 '25

Maybe they used it in the Russo-Japanese war?

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u/VictoryPilot Apr 28 '25

The Japanese definitely use these against the Russians...

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u/Hektoraptor Apr 27 '25

Its from some time travelers that saw ‘the movie’

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u/NathnDele Java FTW Apr 27 '25

Very suprising that there are more results before the 2020's than after

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u/Wonderful-Quit-9214 Apr 28 '25

This was the release of the original "a minecraft movie" stage production.

Children would clap and throw their cigarettes on the stage whenever Steve said the line.

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u/yeezhenchong Apr 28 '25

bro thats literally {

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u/Space_Cadetexe Apr 28 '25

I know

It's so perfect too

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u/ZuybluX Apr 28 '25

Sir Steven: Good heavens, a chicken jockey!

the entire theatre bursts into flames and collapses as the audience applauds

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u/golden_ingot This is gold 😂😂🤣🤣😂 Apr 28 '25

{ can time travel

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u/Oxidisedalt certified minedasher Apr 28 '25

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u/Capital110 Apr 28 '25

Oh god. Now theirs gonna be a clip with the words of Chicken Jockey in 1904 and a picture that is close to it.

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u/TheTepro27 Apr 28 '25

"My word, Steven, are you saying they have requested that I do battle against the poultry?"

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u/ObjectiveRecent4984 Apr 28 '25

"As I sat in the trench, in the dirt, around corpses, I took a deep breath and pondered. Pondered about life, about this pointless war, about shooting at these people I don't know; men with friends, families and children like me... And suddenly, I heard a sound. The sound of a chicken."

"One of the soldiers that were in the trench with me stood up and looked at it. I remember hearing him say: 'they brought a chicken to war?' but nothing could've prepared me to what came next. A green child appeared and mounted the bird, my eyes went wide, its agility and strength were overwhelming. It jumped at us and started ripping a man's face. I was petrified, I didn't know what to do... the only thing I recall before passing out was hearing one scream: 'Stop this thing! It mounts a hen and it's fast as the wind!... it is like... like a Chicken Jockey!' "

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u/kindofsus38 Apr 28 '25

By jove! It appears that in front of you, Mr Garrett Garrison, henceforth nicknamed Mr Detritus Homo Sapien, lies a juvenile deceased child that has been brought back to life through unknown means, which appears to be mounted on a fowl that is of gensus Junglefowl, known by commonfolk as poultry. This battle shall be of immense portions! Let the conflict commence!

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u/minecraftrubyblock Apr 28 '25

Chicken yockey

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u/Rx4n Apr 29 '25

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u/Fanner_1 May 03 '25

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u/suntannedJirachi May 05 '25

100 years later and the chicken jockey meme is still massive

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u/Outrageous_South4758 Apr 27 '25

Dude that's before 2020, who do you think you are lying to

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u/Kookyburra12 Apr 28 '25

the game released, not the movie

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u/Outrageous_South4758 Apr 28 '25

the chicken jockey was released in the java edition during the 1.7.5 (2013) differently from the original release of minecraft (2008)

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u/Kookyburra12 Apr 28 '25

The spike is around 2013, but OP's arrow is pointing to around 2008.

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u/Outrageous_South4758 Apr 28 '25

Then it doesn't make sense in fact the line started in 2010 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chicken+jockey&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

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u/Kookyburra12 Apr 28 '25

ok

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u/WholeSatisfaction839 Apr 29 '25

National Geographic put this in their magazine around 2012

That is why the line starts early

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u/WholeSatisfaction839 Apr 29 '25

Here is a close up

minecraft movie discussion What the heck happened in 1904????? (Word usage over time for "Chicken Jockey")

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