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featherynscaleHrm... a lot of good theories were shared here -- nobody advanced my thought, though, which was that the phrase might be descended from the saying that someone has 'bats in the belfry'. Ah well.
First up, special point to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
malvito, whose answer did not appear in the lists, but who thought that I made up the phrase, which I thought was very funny.
And now, on to the other bits:ottercat (who compared fungus in guano to mercury in hats in answer #4) and saffronhare (who posited "upside-down, shrieking, shitting groups" in #9) tied for the lead in this round with 6 points each. ottercat initially appeared to garner 7 votes, but in fact voted for his own answer, so he joins adammaker at the LJ-Balderdash whipping post.
In second place,jackbabalon, who told the story of the infamous Guano Mushroom in answer #3, got 3 votes.
In other vote-getting news,adammaker (who thought it might relate to the guano-gathering madness of Peruvian migrant workers), kittenpants (who posited that the phrase was a ruder corruption of an only moderately impolite Spanish phrase), triadruid (who tried to sell us a batshit aphrodisiac), and zerself (who gained a vote for use of the phrase 'moron repellant'), got a vote each.
saffronhare - 10
druidevo - 7
kittenpants - 6
ottercat - 6
zerself - 6
jackbabalon - 3
diermuid - 2
lexpendragon - 2
matchgirl42 - 2
8elements - 1
adammaker - 1
fionnabhar - 1
hekatatia - 1
infintysquared - 1
lordkalkin - 1
malvito - 1
rfunk - 1
sxypaganmom - 1
triadruid - 1
First up, special point to
malvito, whose answer did not appear in the lists, but who thought that I made up the phrase, which I thought was very funny. And now, on to the other bits:
ottercat (who compared fungus in guano to mercury in hats in answer #4) and saffronhare (who posited "upside-down, shrieking, shitting groups" in #9) tied for the lead in this round with 6 points each. ottercat initially appeared to garner 7 votes, but in fact voted for his own answer, so he joins adammaker at the LJ-Balderdash whipping post. In second place,
jackbabalon, who told the story of the infamous Guano Mushroom in answer #3, got 3 votes.In other vote-getting news,
adammaker (who thought it might relate to the guano-gathering madness of Peruvian migrant workers), kittenpants (who posited that the phrase was a ruder corruption of an only moderately impolite Spanish phrase), triadruid (who tried to sell us a batshit aphrodisiac), and zerself (who gained a vote for use of the phrase 'moron repellant'), got a vote each.saffronhare - 10
druidevo - 7
kittenpants - 6
ottercat - 6
zerself - 6
jackbabalon - 3
diermuid - 2
lexpendragon - 2
matchgirl42 - 2
8elements - 1
adammaker - 1
fionnabhar - 1
hekatatia - 1
infintysquared - 1
lordkalkin - 1
malvito - 1
rfunk - 1
sxypaganmom - 1
triadruid - 1
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I've been bad.....
Date: 2005-11-30 07:34 pm (UTC)So, when do I get my beating?
Actually, it was more being unfamiliar with the concept than anything else. So, I shan't vote for myself again ;-)
Re: I've been bad.....
Date: 2005-11-30 08:16 pm (UTC)Sometime when we're in the same room, I think. I greatly prefer deferred real-world beatings to immediate cyber-beatings.
Also, must beat
Re: I've been bad.....
Date: 2005-11-30 08:23 pm (UTC)Woohoo!
Date: 2005-11-30 08:21 pm (UTC).
Wait. Was that my outside voice?
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::Ahem:: Never mind.
Re: Woohoo!
Date: 2005-11-30 08:24 pm (UTC)::in and out::
*ahem*
Re: Woohoo!
Date: 2005-11-30 09:04 pm (UTC)Re: Woohoo!
Date: 2005-11-30 09:26 pm (UTC)Re: Woohoo!
Date: 2005-11-30 09:31 pm (UTC)Re: Woohoo!
Date: 2005-11-30 11:06 pm (UTC)What? It's an existing rumor!
no subject
Date: 2005-11-30 08:34 pm (UTC)http://www.american.edu/TED/guano.htm
The Guano Administration WAS created by Peru in 1908, and I still think that fact is very funny.
no subject
Date: 2005-11-30 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-02 03:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-02 03:35 pm (UTC)And I know that, too. Sorry 'bout that.
Ever have one of those weeks when you feel like what's left of your brains-- the really resilient neurons that you haven't yet managed to kill off through intoxication, sneezing, or holding your breath until you turn blue-- have just decided to decamp and are now leaving via your left ear? 'Cause I am.