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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Fowl peck, but some humans pick on their unfortunate spouses. Examples:
Her husband is henpicked & the whole Beckham family is 1 big joke…
www.entertainmentwise.com/article.asp?id=23000&view=all
Bad ideas in the history of Superman comics …Superman, whiny, henpicked, incompetent crybaby with a major yellow streak.
forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=198556
Basho He also wrote the longest Chinese novel, ‘Hsing shih yin yuan’, describing the unhappy marriage of a shrew and her henpicked husband.
www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n … /4For.html
Instead, we picked a theme—The Best and Worst of Coupledom—and selected songs about henpicked husbands, wife-beaters, and cheaters …
anotherfuckingwedding.com/
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did you know that birds are incredibly accurate at spotting bad pills on a pharmaceuticals production line?
They can “pick” them out.
Is it that much of a true image shift, though? Bcs “picking,” by a bird, would be done by pecking. I’m wondering if it’s just a mispronounciation/spelling.
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