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As a boiled owl?!

I contend this phrase is both usual and customary, especially when referencing Dude Steel. Hence:

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If I recall correctly, the phrase originated in Samothrace, where it was first used to describe 18th century English tourists who had just been introduced to the cocktail known in the local vernacular as the Breath of Death, which consisted of five jiggers of ouzo with a dash of bitters. Those who survived their initiation to this cocktail would become as drunk as lords. Changing the locution from lords to boiled owls was but a short logical step.

Sounds eminently plausible.

Sounds eminently plausible.

-- Michael White.......

Yet Eminem sounds like he came from Plaus.

Plausibility is my maiden aunt's middle name on alternate Thursdays.