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Let's see-- a fancy of...fools?
Why? We already have the perfect phrase a ship of fools.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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True...I'd forgotten that.
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Okay, then--got any other ideas for a flight of fancy?
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A Fancy of Nancys (no offense intended) of Débutantes of Calligraphers of Dans of Fops of Figure Skaters ...I should go now
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A Fancy of NancysA Fancy of Pantsys
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Pity, Owl's gone again....off with Rocky Racoon.
"Her name was Magil and she called herself Lil But everyone knew her as Nancy"
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but then again, (back to the murder of crows), aren't crows and ravens and such supposed to be harbingers of doom? and they do tend to make a terrible noise and float around battlefields. They also eat my neighbours chicks, ducklings and baby pheasants...murderous things
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Many Native American nations consider them to be gods, or messengers of gods, even talismanic good creatures. They are often in the totems of the Pacific Coast peoples.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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bexter! Good ta see ya, feller! [blowing kiss e] And yes, they are murderous, thieving things. I saw one take a baby songbird out of its nest a few years ago, the little one hanging limply from the claws as the parents fluttered frantically but uselessly. And I remember many years ago reading a story where a crow would fly into some house and steal shiny jewelry, thus getting one of the inhabitants in trouble till they found the stash. A British story, I think...hmm, it may have been a magpie. [shrug] But didn't Dickon of The Secret Garden have a crow as a pet?
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And crows figure largely in HBO's "The Game of Thrones".
----please, draw me a sheep----
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