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'foul play' is an odd expression -- how did sport intrude?
why not 'foul act', or 'foul deed'?
What fowle play had we, that we came from thence? -WS, Tempest
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Oh, brave new world!
Fowl act: gobbled its last gobble; 'twas its swan song...
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Imagine eating swans and herons, as they did in Elizabethan days. As my wife's favorite grandfather used to say, you couldn't put a fork in the gravy.
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Mebbe they ate herons during the Gold Rush,too, wwh. Mebbe Clementine wore heron boxes, #9, instead of herring boxes on her feet before succumbing to the bubbling brine... If said heron boxes lead to her demise, that would be an example of fowl play.
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I never tasted any, but there used to be jokes about coot, which eat mostly fish, which gives taste few people like. There used to be a recipe for cooking them, which involved nailing them to a shingle, baking three hours, thowing the coot away and eating the shingle. I doubt very much that the early Colonists ate the Turkeys that were numerous, but too wary to be killed with weapons Colonists had. Remember, Ben Fanklin wanted the Turkey to be made the National emblem, because it was so smart.
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wwh, we're making a valliant effort of keeping this turkey going. I've never heard of eating coot shingles, or maybe shingles à la coot, but we have a traditional shad planking here in Virginia where shad are nailed to a plank, smoked, and then eaten. I don't believe Virginians eat the planks.  Speaking of Ben Franklin, I remember having read that he invented a device for getting items off high shelves. You wouldn't happen to know the name of that device, would you? Lusty Ben sometimes used it to Store Richard's Alamanc on the uppermost shelf of his library. Best regards, WobbleWobble
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coot shingles Dr. Bill, how would you treat a case of coot shingles? Or does this lapse too much into the veterinary for your expertise?  eating coot shingles A very tedious meal, indeed, WW! 
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Mebbe Clementine wore heron boxes, #9, instead of herring boxes.
Dear Dub-Duck:
that bit of distorted history is a foul canard.
a mis-read herring, for which you should be paddled.
(quacking-up -e)
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Ever-alert for beastly terms, the adjective for ducklike is (roll of drums with percussive paddles) anatine!
Oh, my duckling, oh, my duckling, oh, my duc......
ling, Anatine!
Best canards,
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anatidaephobia - the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you
q: what quacks, is dangerous and lives in a marsh?
a: a duck with a machine gun.
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