The Top 10 Everything of 2009

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10. Ernie Anastos

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"Keep f___ing that chicken!"

New York City TV anchor Ernie Anastos' inexplicable on-air comment to weatherman Nick Gregory during a Sept. 16 newscast. Anastos, who started the banter with "It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast" — and, some speculate, meant to say "plucking" — later acknowledged that he "misspoke" and apologized "to anyone who may have been offended."

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