Where's Miss Chicken?

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

{{{{{{{Teacock!}}}}}}} thank you sooo much, ducks! You really are a darling

OH god that takes me back to the days when people were constantly encasing your name in internet hugs.. and still there were those who managed to hug inappropriately, even online

 

[CorporalCaptain]

[...] recognizing that the speaker was foreign[...]

I respectfully disagree. It is not always that easy to recognize the origin of a poster. I myself have been mistaken for a native speaker on this very board more than once. I was even thratened with a ban, under the (false) assumption that I was a well-known Anglo-Canadian troll's dual.
As a general rule, you can recognize foreigners by their better command of grammar and spelling (no offense meant, just pointing out an - admittedly somewhat embarrassing - fact)

We might put it like this: "Two flies with one swatter!?! You're not from around these parts, are you?"

 

[scotpens]

Or "seven with one blow," perhaps?

That's an excellent example! Thank you!
As it lacks the 2 vs 1 component, it'd be impossible to recognize for a native speaker of English as similar to the birds/stone phrase. And I suppose Grimm's tales aren't that well known in the US though I recall having seen an abridged volume in a LA bookstore. (Interestingly, they edited quite a few endings, like the evil witch in Hänsel & Gretel not getting shoved into the oven and burnt to death.)

Many of the classic Grimm's fairy tales are known to American children -- at least they were when I was a tot. I had a book of the stories in their original versions, with no wussy censorship or P.C. bowdlerization. Some of those tales have endings that are pretty, well, grim.

So . . . where's Miss Chicken?

 

[RJDiogenes]

Looks like she forgot to leave a trail of bread crumbs. Who's up for a search party?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Hopefully one of her FB friends have informed her that she's the topic of a thread.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

We've determined that she's doing fine and posting on Facebook, but she might not want to return to posting at TrekBBS at this time (I can't go into details, since it was private), so I think we should just leave it there. When she feels up to posting here again, she will.

Since we know she's okay, I'm going to go ahead and shut this down. She's still available on Facebook if anyone wants to friend her there.