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If anything, it may make it worse since a Mumruffin is also known as a &#8220;bum towel.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, around and around we go:  Mumruffin, long-tailed tit, bum towel.  &#8220;Bum towel&#8221; sounds worse than &#8220;long-tailed tit&#8221; if it refers to the part of the anatomy and not to a vagrant.  Where does it all stop?  Where did it all begin?  For that matter, which came first, the mumruffin or the egg?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave you with this from Romane Clark and Paul Welsh, <em>Introduction to Logic<\/em> (1962):  &#8220;All vireos are blue-eyed, and no mumruffin is blue-eyed; therefore no vireo is a mumruffin.&#8221;  Of course, not all vireos are blue-eyed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumruffin. 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