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Never heard a name for them before. Perhaps it's a left bank thing! How about "a coagulation of accumulated detritus"?
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That sounds like the coad name for them.......
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And of course, a coad in da dose bakes you sdeeze.
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it seems that the term 'bunny' has been overloaded; here's one such usage:
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[perh. a. OF. bugne, beugne, var. forms of bigne, a swelling caused by a blow; cf. boine (dial.) under BOIN v.; also BUNION.]
A lump, hump, or swelling; spec. a soft watery swelling on the joints of animals.
dust lumps??
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poor bunnies, getting blamed and named for all ills. anyone remember the horrer flik "Night of the Lupis"?
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Thanks for the link, Fr. Steve. Mine is in the shape of a house, but the sentiment is the same. It's nice to know where I can get another should I decide to gift someone. 
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Those were the good old days. A local independent TV station screened a really bad sci fi or horror film every Friday night and called the program "Creature Feature." One developed a whole vocabulary of B-film references. And "The Night of the Lepus" contributed mightily to it. The premise was one popular in 1972: science producing unintended negative consequences. A rancher hires two scientists to inoculate the wild rabbits, who are annoying his cattle, with something that will make them stop breeding. Instead, the elixir makes them 25 feet tall and carnivorous. "In order to facilitate their growth, the rabbits need extra protein, and what better source than the relatively slow-moving human population that surrounds their huge subterranean lairs?" ~ New York Times. The best part of the whole movie is the "special effects" in which real bunnies are filmed in slow motion, trampling balsa-wood replicas of farmhouses and towns. One doubts that the producers had quite as much audience laughter in mind as is produced by these scenes. An amazing thing about "Lepus" was the number of well-known actors in it: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley, and Paul Fix. Officer Lopez: "Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/P.S. lepus = Latin for hare. The scientific name of the black-tailed jack rabbit is Lepus californicus.
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well-known actors … : Stuart Whitman
Who?
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Stuart Whitman appeared in over a hundred movies. He started out with bit parts in sci-fi movies of the fifties like "When Worlds Collide" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still." It is fun to recognize him in these minor roles, as a fellow who later played leading parts. He appeared in "Ten North Frederick" in 1958, in "Murder Incorporated" in 1960, in "The Longest Day" in 1962, in "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines in 1965, and in about six jillion made-for-TV movies and TV series. You'd recognize him. http://www.thegoldenyears.org/whitman.html
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