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  Questions & Answers: Horsefeathers
It refers, as indicated in your letter, to the tapered boards laid on wood shingle roofs to provide a flat surface for asphalt shingles to be laid on in re-roofing.
The term “feathering strips,” meaning the same thing, is found in some roofing manuals.
It seems most likely that it began either as a bowdlerised variant of horseshit or as an expression of the view that something is highly unlikely, about as probable as that pigs might fly...
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The 3 most famous being Groucho with his splendid one-liners and superb put-downs, Chico with his scams and crazy affected Italian accent and the silent Harpo with his childlike horseplay and marvellous musical skills.
The Marx Brothers Collection features the following films: Animal Crackers; Monkey Business; Horse Feathers; Duck Soup.
The Marx Brothers Box Set features the following films: A Night At The Opera; A Day At The Races; Big Store; Night In Casablanca; At The Circus; Go West.
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 Why A Duck? -- UK Bookstore
To learn more about any of these films, pay a visit to my A Night At The Movies page.
After two sailors (Groucho and William Bendix) are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realise that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.
This book contains a metric carload of conversations with Perelman, who wrote the screenplays for the Marx films, "Monkey Business" and "Horse Feathers." And it features a chapter where Perelman, Groucho, and Kenneth Tynan talk about funny men.
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A companion book to my new Six - DVD set including The Coconuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers and Duck Soup.
John K: The Ren & Stimpy Show Seasons 1 & 2
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