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Not sure what there is to say about this information
Dec 23, 2017, 9:13 PM
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but, while discussing Toledo earlier tonight, as usual, the origin of their minor league baseball team’s mascot, the Mud Hens, came up.
from Mud Hens team website -
“The nickname Mud Hens first arose in 1896......The park was surrounded by a marshland that was home to strange birds called American Coots, whose guttural clucks and grunts could be heard during games. These birds have also been known as marsh hens, rails -- and mud hens.”
Yep. It’s a Coot.
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Really sure what there is to say about this information...
Dec 23, 2017, 9:44 PM
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Toledo has a whole lot better reputation than Cola.
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South Carolina Mud Hens
Dec 23, 2017, 9:46 PM
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If I were a coot, I think I'd rather be called a mud hen than a ####. But that's just me.
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South Carolina Mud Hens
Dec 23, 2017, 9:55 PM
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If I were a coot, I think I'd rather be called a mud hen than a ####. But that's just me.
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Yeah. I was thinking
Dec 23, 2017, 9:58 PM
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poor Toledo, @71PR and @Cheeseburger38, but my brain won’t abide any sympathy for the whole state of Ohio.
I must be a bad person!
It’s a bad bad time of the year to be bad.
Holy Toledo!
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Re: Not sure what there is to say about this information
Dec 23, 2017, 10:24 PM
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Klinger from Mash 4077th was a huge fan ...being from Toledo .
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Klinger was an odd bird
Dec 23, 2017, 10:37 PM
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but I always liked him, at least.
Did he ever get that Section 8?
Message was edited by: oghost®
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Re: Not sure what there is to say about this information
Dec 23, 2017, 10:27 PM
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Sorry, never thought the term "coot" was nearly derisive enough nor sufficiently reflective of our necessary disrespect to the poultry. Nothing about a coot is clearly awful. I saw some in Hawaii and they were reasonably respectable birds, nor nearly as pathetic as our feathered #########. Let's start with dirtpeckers and work backward.
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Strictures self-evident to all respectable adults
Dec 23, 2017, 10:59 PM
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beg us to avoid the public use of their proper names - Emily Post (aka oghost)
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So a nickname for the dirt peckers are mud peckers?***
Dec 23, 2017, 10:48 PM
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