Re: RARA-AVIS: Ellroy's birds [was: when a cigar is not a cigar award]

From: Jim Beaver ( jumblejim@prodigy.net)
Date: 16 Apr 2002

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Taboada" < matrxtech@yahoo.com> To: < rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 2:45 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Ellroy's birds [was: when a cigar is not a cigar award]

> Speaking of our feathered friends, James Ellroy is to be
> commented for his brilliant coinage "shitbird", one of the
> most comical insults I have heard in years.
>

I got called "shitbird" many, many times in Marine Corps bootcamp back in
'68. Does Ellroy's usage predate that?

Jim Beaver

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