Nonsense Question Of The day

[cincygreg]

We call a some birds fowl. In fact by definition fowl are any domesticated bird used for food, such as a turkey, chicken or duck. Now, when we say something smells or tastes bad or rotten we often say that it tastes or smells foul. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...
Do we need to discern between the two in conversation? If someone says "that left a foul taste in my mouth", do we need to ask them if it tasted bad of merely tasted like chicken? Should we just assume that they are using foul with a u and not fowl with a w? Is it fair to the fowl that we do not discern between foul and fowl in coverstaion or do you think that the fowl understand the differnece when we speak of something tasting or smelling foul?
Do you think the chickens, ducks and turkeys even care?

LOL!


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<font color="#a52a2a"><font size="1">[ November 17, 2004 11:19 AM: Message edited by: cincygreg ]</font></font>

<font color="#a52a2a" size="1">[ November 17, 2004 11:20 AM: Message edited by: cincygreg ]</font>

[reason]

Well, greg, this exact situation happened one afternoon at the lunch table at work. A coworker doesn't like the chicken on the salad bar, and exclaims as I'm eating, "That stuff's foul!"

To which I chuckled.

In the end, the situation was not nearly as complicated as your scenario above, as people understood the context of the comment and the humor of the unintended pun.

Organic people are just smart that way.