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"anatidaephobia
the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you (coined by Gary Larson, The Far Side)"
A note on the above quote from the highly astute tsuwm's catalogue of words:
When you search anatidaephobia on One Look Dictionaries, tsuwm's is the only one that lists anatidaephobia.
I'll suggest another he may choose to add to his catalogue, one created just for him:
anatidaffobia: the fear that somewhere, somehow, a well-know Looney tune duck is watching you.
Quacked up,
WoodDuck
PS: What do you call those whistles that make duck, turkey, and nightingale sounds? Are they just called duck calls, turkey calls, and nightingale calls?
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A-hem: [stern look at all the silliness posts e]  'foul play' is an odd expression -- how did sport intrude?Well, could it have transferred over from the expression "fair or foul"? Fair used to be an adjective used to describe a good-looking female, among other things; point being that it has long been associated with positives. So, if any kind of interaction (business deal, a sport) occurred more or less as expected, it could have been described as fair. And I'll bet foul just developed as the "natural" opposite.
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Well, we are certainly all fair ladies here, aren't we, and all else are foul and most definitely not fowl. 
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Well, not really. Though at two different times I owned the US equivalent of a Fairlady. The first one I called Eliza and the second one Audrey.
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he Spirit sings:
SABRINA fair
Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of Lillies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair,
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Listen for dear honour's sake,
Goddess of the silver lake,
Listen and save!
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"Well, not really. Though at two different times I owned the US equivalent of a Fairlady.
The first one I called Eliza and the second one Audrey. "
Dear TEd: I figured out you called the first one Eliza, because it would Doolittle.
I haven't been able to figure out why you called the second one Audrey.
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Eliza Doolittle, true, wwh, was a fair lady--
And Audren Hepburn played her--
And Ted could have owned them both in the form of a videotape...or recording of some other kind...
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'foul play' is an odd expression -- how did sport intrude?
Well, could it have transferred over from the expression "fair or foul"?
But, but ... "fair or foul" is a sports term. See: baseball - base runner - line drive - along foul line - waiting for ump's signal...
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My understanding: My Fair Lady had been a huge stage success, starring Julie Andrews. But when it came time to cast the movie version the producers, seeking the box-office appeal of a "star" name, passed over Ms. Andrews and selected Ms. Hepburn -- who unfortunately cannot sing. The difficulty was resolved by having her songs dubbed ... by Ms. Andrews.
Which hardly seems fair to the original fair lady.
Ms. Andrews, however, had the last laugh. Not being occupied with the production of My Fair Lady, she was available to take the lead in another movie, which proved rather successful: The Sound of Music.
Edit: Sparteye, below, is correct in her correction.
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Well, Andrews' dubbing is ironic, isn't it? Oh, wrong thread. Sorry.
It's also ironic that we're discussing Doolittle and Hepburn in light of the PM that was sent me today.
Still, wrong thread. Sorry again.
What is the adjective for turkey
Not dubbed,
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