Stool Pigeons
April 28th 2010 21:00
Several years ago, one of my friends and I worked for the same company. We had a supervisor who was famous for being petty. My friend took a dislike to him and gave him all sorts of nicknames.
One day, while I was busy working away, I heard her say, “He’s a stool pigeon.”
Another colleague overheard her and started laughing.
“What is a stool pigeon?” I asked. I remember coming across the term in Judy Blume’s Blubber but apart from that, I had not heard anyone use the term so I was unfamiliar with it.
The other colleague said, “It’s an informant.”
“Oh,” I said, “a dobber.” We all ended up laughing at my ignorance.
Cut to circa 2008/2009. I was listening to a funk music segment on FBI radio when I heard one of the presenters say they were going to play a song called Stool Pigeon by Kid Creole and the Coconuts. I immediately started laughing and wondered how the song went. They then put it on and I recognised it straight away. To this day, whenever someone mentions stool pigeons I think of my old friend and Kid Creole and vice versa.
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