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An horrible historical note: the term fur-BLAM came upon us one day whilst
discussing less-than-civilized hypothetical sports, in this case hunting
squirrels with shotguns.  The conjured image of the post-shot
inwardly-rotating torus-shaped cloud of disembodied fur...ugh, icky.  Waste
of a friendly squirrel.  Bottle-feeding the little beggars into maturity is
much more rewarding.  The macabre aspect has faded, but we still remember
sometimes.  We use it to describe explosive clouds of fur, now.