The title is a Brooklynese way of saying " gets the bird ", which can refer to an obscene gesture, or as simply the " Bronx cheer "; in this case, it is also used metaphorically, as Bugs " gets " the bird ( a buzzard ) by playing a trick.
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The effort to get the bird listed is being considered by a sister agency in the Interior Department, the Fish and Wildlife Service, which must make its decision by Dec . 29 . Such a designation could lead to new restrictions on energy exploration and grazing on lands where the birds live.
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As he once famously remarked, " I do not turn my organizers or CIO members upside down and shake them to see what kind of literature falls out of their pockets . " He took the same line in private, when David Dubinsky of the ILGWU asked him about the communists on the SWOC staff; as he told Dubinsky, " Who gets the bird?
