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In post 1730, Norfolk Boy1 wrote:VOTE: Hayker

Haykers gonna Hayk Hayk Hayk.

Norway; first, aid me with the %s that a)Meta and b) the slip are the reasons for your vote.

Second, if there is belief in a 'slip', why is Mom not being wagonned?

In post 1737, Luca Blight wrote:VOTE: Nero

In post 4550, Andresvmb wrote:

In post 1730, Norfolk Boy1 wrote:VOTE: Hayker

Haykers gonna Hayk Hayk Hayk.

Norway; first, aid me with the %s that a)Meta and b) the slip are the reasons for your vote.

Second, if there is belief in a 'slip', why is Mom not being wagonned?

In post 1737, Luca Blight wrote:VOTE: Nero

And this is a key sequence for when scrutinizing Luca. Luca had just voted for Hayker. And then Norfolk does too. So just when maybe the momentum would not be enough to save Hayker from doom, Luca switches to Nero. Fascinating.

In post 4547, Andresvmb wrote:So there you go. Hayker could *easily* be Scum. And chkflip was trying to hard distance from Hayker yesterday given the plan to shoot DGB. Because once DGB flips Town, frankly chkflip becomes almost obvious Scum. So there was some planning going on there, and I’m not so sure it can be trusted.

etymonline.org wrote:

curry (v.)

late 13c., "to rub down a horse," from Anglo-French

curreier

"to curry-comb a horse," from Old French

correier

"put in order, prepare, curry," from

con-

, intensive prefix (see

com-

), + reier "arrange," from a Germanic source (see

ready

). Related:

Curried

;

currying

.

To

curry favor

"flatter, seek favor by officious show of courtesy or kindness" is an early 16c. folk-etymology alteration of

curry favel

(c. 1400) from Old French

correier fauvel

"to be false, hypocritical," literally "to curry the chestnut horse," chestnut horses in medieval French allegories being symbols of cunning and deceit. Compare German

den falben (hengst) streichen

"to flatter, cajole," literally "to stroke the dun-colored horse."

Old French

fauvel

(later

fauveau

) "fallow, dun," though the exact color intended in the early uses is vague, is a diminutive of

fauve

"fawn-colored horse, dark-colored thing, dull," for which see

Fauvist

. The secondary sense here is entangled with similar-sounding Old French

favele

"lying, deception," from Latin

fabella

, diminutive of

fabula

(see

fable

(n.)). In Middle English,

favel

was a common name for a horse, while the identical

favel

or

fauvel

(from Old French

favele

) meant "flattery, insincerity; duplicity, guile, intrigue," and was the name of a character in "Piers Plowman."

etymonline.org wrote:

bird (n.1)

"feathered, warm-blooded vertebrate animal of the class Aves," Old English

bird

, rare collateral form of

bridd

, originally "young bird, nestling" (the usual Old English for "bird" being

fugol

, for which see

fowl

(n.)), which is of uncertain origin with no cognates in any other Germanic language. The suggestion that it is related by umlaut to

brood

and

breed

is rejected by OED as "quite inadmissible." Metathesis of -r- and -i- was complete 15c. (compare

wright

).

Despite its early attestation,

bridd

is not necessarily the oldest form of

bird

. It is usually assumed that

-ir-

from

-ri-

arose by metathesis, but here, too, the Middle English form may go back to an ancient period. [Liberman]

Still up to c. 1400 it was often used in the specific sense "the young of a bird, fledgling, nestling, chick," and of the young of other animals (bees, fish, snakes) and human children.

The proper designation of the feathered creation is in E.

fowl

, which in course of time was specially applied to the gallinaceous tribe as the most important kind of bird for domestic use, and it was perhaps this appropriation of the word which led to the adoption of the name of the young animal as the general designation of the race. [Hensleigh Wedgwood, "A Dictionary of English Etymology," 1859]

Figurative sense of "secret source of information" is from 1540s. Meaning "man, fellow, person" is from 1799.

Bird-watching

attested from 1897.

Bird's-eye view

"the view as seen from above, as if by a bird in flight," is from 1762.

For the birds

recorded from 1944, supposedly in allusion to birds eating from droppings of horses and cattle. The

bird-spider

(1800) of the American tropics is a large sort of tarantula that can capture and kill small birds.

A byrde yn honde ys better than three yn the wode. [c. 1530]

The form with

bush

is attested by 1630s.

In post 4571, Luca Blight wrote:I also reassessed after the quiet flip and scumread Vax, while you told me he was Town.

In post 3870, Andresvmb wrote:

In post 3866, Luca Blight wrote:Why hasn’t Vax claimed yet

What exactly are you doing? Like why are you demanding people claim?

In post 3872, Andresvmb wrote:

In post 3871, Luca Blight wrote:Quiet hinted at a possible guilty on Vax, Andres.

You’re wasting a lot of time. Vax is probably Town, actually. Purely from today’s posting.

You know what I’m interested in? Between Titus and I, who would you vote?