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- Original-From: Ken Wolman <mhwpa!ktw>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:38:52 EST
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- From: ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
- Subject: Re: Gleanings (76)
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS" at Jan 25,
- 93 9:25 am
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- > 14) Foo Bird. (John Wm.)
- > Oh boy. I meant this in the sense of the mythical Foo Bird that
- > had one wing shorter than another and flew in ever-decreasing circles until
- > it disappeared by flying up its' own ass! There was a character in the comic
- > "Smokey Stover" that would pop up in a panel and say "Foo!" at random, and
- > there were also the WWII-era UFO's that were called "Foo-fighters" by USAAF
- > personnel. Partridge gives it as more-or-less a synonym for "gremlin" and
- > credits it to Australian (!) sources. I don't think so. (BTW, does anyone
- > remember what the catch-phrase in "Smokey Stover" was? I've either forgotten
- > it completely, or I'm having a worse than usual case of brain-lock today...)
-
- Once a man was taking a walk. When he stood under a tree, a very
- large, multicolored bird proceeded to shit on his head. Someone said,
- "You can't remove that birdshit or you'll die. Sorry about that."
- The victim was furious. "That's...<ridiculous>! I'm gonna go wash my
- hair immediately." He did, and of course, he immediately dropped
- dead. The motto? IF THE FOO SHITS, WEAR IT.
-
- Ken
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