# Deadly Bird Flew

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 21, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadly-bird-flew/285923 "2005-01-21T15:55:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadly-bird-flew/285923/1 "2005-01-21T15:55:14Z")

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This morning, I listened to Morning Edition on the drive in. As I was just digesting my first few sips of tea, I heard:

“Another person has died from bird flew in Vietnam.”

For a moment, my brain tried in vain to come to grips with this. Buh? Birds flying in Vietnam? What? Killing people? Huh?"

“This raises the bird flew death toll to 7 in Southeast Asia.”

Huh? What? Bird flew death toll? What the hell have I been missing?

“Hundreds of thousands of chickens have been slaughtered in an attempt to halt the spread of the _influenza_ epidemic.”

:smack:

Just had to share.

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**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadly-bird-flew/285923/2 "2005-01-21T16:48:16Z")

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Did I ever tell y’all about the time I read a recipe that called for “dry red wine” and I pondered, for quite some time, where one might purchase powdered wine? Would it come in packets like gravy mix? Would it be near the cooking sherry, and would I need ID to purchase it? DAYS later someone used the phrase “dry martini” and a little teeny voice in my head said, “Oh.”

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**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadly-bird-flew/285923/3 "2005-01-21T16:50:19Z")

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> [@Podkayne](#):
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> This morning, I listened to Morning Edition on the drive in. As I was just digesting my first few sips of tea, I heard:
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> “Another person has died from bird flew in Vietnam.”

They finally tracked down Tippi Hedren.

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**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadly-bird-flew/285923/4 "2005-01-21T18:34:26Z")

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There was a children’s rhyme in the 1918 flu epidemic which went:

I had a little birdie  
Her name was Enza  
I opened the window  
And in flew Enza!