Pet Chickens + Grey Squirrels

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(1) Sarah E. Needleman, Fowl Fans See Golden Eggs in Catering to Pet-Chicken
Market; Niche Sales Include Toys, Saddles and Diapers; Costumes for Phillip
and Suzie. Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704178004575351121083644624.html

Note: flash in the pan
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flash+in+the+pan

(2) Natalie Angier, Nut? What Nut? The Squirrel Outwits to Survive. New York
Times, July 7, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/science/06angi.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=squirrel&st=cse

My comment:
(a)
(i) Rococo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo
(ii) Rococo (adj): "1: [an artistic style] 2: excessively ornate or
intricate"
(b) kvetch (vi; Yiddish): "to complain habitually : GRIPE"
(c) gesundheit (interjection; etymology: German, literally, health, from
gesund healthy (from Old High German gisunt) + -heit -hood): "—used to wish
good health especially to one who has just sneezed"

All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(d) Conventional wisdom is that a squirrel can not recall where it buries a
nut. While it is true that the same nut is uncovered and reburied,
conventional wisdom is that different squirrels are doing it, rather than
the same squirrel.

(3) C. Claiborne Ray, The Tale of the Tail. New York Times, July 7, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/science/06qna.html?scp=3&sq=squirrel&st=cse

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