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Hrm... 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] 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: [livejournal.com profile] ottercat (who compared fungus in guano to mercury in hats in answer #4) and [livejournal.com profile] saffronhare (who posited "upside-down, shrieking, shitting groups" in #9) tied for the lead in this round with 6 points each. [livejournal.com profile] ottercat initially appeared to garner 7 votes, but in fact voted for his own answer, so he joins [livejournal.com profile] adammaker at the LJ-Balderdash whipping post.

In second place, [livejournal.com profile] jackbabalon, who told the story of the infamous Guano Mushroom in answer #3, got 3 votes.

In other vote-getting news, [livejournal.com profile] adammaker (who thought it might relate to the guano-gathering madness of Peruvian migrant workers), [livejournal.com profile] kittenpants (who posited that the phrase was a ruder corruption of an only moderately impolite Spanish phrase), [livejournal.com profile] triadruid (who tried to sell us a batshit aphrodisiac), and [livejournal.com profile] 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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