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Re: More puns in new vocab

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• Subject: Re: More puns in new vocab
• Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:30:37 -0500 (EST)
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> >> parbIng - "a mid-sized bird with particularly garish coloring 
> >>            (at least from a Klingon point of view"
> 
> Anyone figured this one out yet?  PARRot perhaps, but {-bIng}?  The only
> Klingon {bIng} we know of is a noun meaning "area below, area under". Someone
> suggested BING Crosby, IIRC, but I've never considered him to be
> particularly garish.

Are there any golf fans out there?  "under par" golf term.  Garish could apply 
to the style of clothing golfers wear.  There's something called a "birdie" in 
golf also.


DloraH

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