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  • While authorities were still piecing together the motivation behind the recidivist fowl's homicidal rampage, a chorus of Republican critics complained that pardoning the feathered killer was symptomatic of the Obama administration's misguided policies.

    Andy Borowitz: Pardoned White House Turkey Slays Nine 2009

  • It's stainless steel, it's got a kind of purposeful surgical quality to its manufacture, and once you've got the perforated Rectifying Probe jammed up the fowl's bottom, it's going to jolly well stay there through thick or thin!

    Rectified Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • It's stainless steel, it's got a kind of purposeful surgical quality to its manufacture, and once you've got the perforated Rectifying Probe jammed up the fowl's bottom, it's going to jolly well stay there through thick or thin!

    Archive 2009-06-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • Last week the popular free song-swapping service took a big step toward dodging the fowl's fate.

    The Odd Couple 2008

  • Implying, I gathered at once, both the dancer's act of imitating a chicken's walk, and the guitarist's replication of the barnyard fowl's characteristic claw-scratch and gullet-cackle.

    Fly, Fly Away 2006

  • Implying, I gathered at once, both the dancer's act of imitating a chicken's walk, and the guitarist's replication of the barnyard fowl's characteristic claw-scratch and gullet-cackle.

    February 2006 2006

  • Somewhere inside, I hoped and prayed, was the guidance unit that Bob Bascombe had been confident he could reprogram, turning the high-tech hut on fowl's legs into a Trojan horse.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

  • Like passengers in some outrageous amusement park ride, we were hoisted and secured to the right flank of the hut on fowl's legs.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

  • They were called yagas — a name originally bestowed by whimsical Russian technicians who thought the bipedal robotic fruit-harvesters resembled the hut on fowl's legs inhabited by the legendary sorceress Baba Yaga.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

  • The guinea fowl's potential to increase meat production among hungry countries should be given greater recognition.

    5 Chicken 1991

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