[Joe Allonby]

"Raucous" is often used to describe the behavior of certain birds:
magpies, jays, crows.


On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:45 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with the image you see, but it is worth noting that the
> combination of "raucous" with "dying" has a certain perversity about
> it.  "Raucous" behaviour is usually associated with uncouth wildness,
> inappropriate loudness, rough-housing, a certain willful breaking of
> decorum.  Combining this willfulness with a certainly undesired death
> is the perversity of this phrase.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's the image I get, accompanied by a lot of violent thrashing.
>> This is a case of getting the image across very succinctly.
>