When a Rooster (cult member from southern Illinois) becomes a scone. These are highly trained men in many aspects and you should be on high alert when around one. These soldiers are excessively well in consuming alcohol, gambling, stealing women, smoking anything that burns, and are highly trained experts in hand to hand combat as well as firearm combat. Also major dickheads. Just not the person you want to test, absolute TOP G's all around.
Man we just ran into a group of Rooster Scone's and they were smoking marb reds and had 6 blondes with them. What a group a badass men. I sure wouldn't mess with them.
by dirtymoney93 September 16, 2022
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It is also "Rooster argument". The origin comes from the callsign of Bradley Bradshaw "Rooster" from movie Top Gun: Maverick. In the movie, Rooster and his pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell escape a hostile airbase using a F-14A Tomcat before being intercepted by a pair of 5th-Generation Sukhoi Su-57 Felon fighters. Maverick says that the F-14A objectively cannot handle a 5th-Gen fighter but Rooster refutes by dropping the famous quote: "It's not the plane, it's the pilot". (Rooster also said this earlier in the film where he got furious towards Maverick pulling out his papers in the academy.)

A lot of the people who are into military aviation (especially in video games) who debate the 'hard factors' of an aircraft (i.e. debating the flight performance of the F-86F vs MiG-15bis) will usually use this quote to refute the argument based on their skill or in general. Completely ignoring the point of the argument just so they feel better.
Kyle: "According to the data I gathered, this plane has a better thrust to weight ratio and turn rate than this other plane..."
Tim: "Doesn't matter. It depends on who is flying it."
Kyle: "Are you really gonna drop the Rooster quote?"
by StarBeatShuwa-APFSDSType10 December 12, 2022
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