More "popular" etymologies

[Laurence Horn]

Bob Fitzke <fitzke at VOYAGER.NET> provides this one:
>Re  Creative origins (what are the odds on this one being true?)
>
>Wildlife ID
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>According to the Knight-Ridder News Service, the inscription on the
>metal bands used by the U.S. Department of the Interior to tag
>migratory birds has been changed.  The bands used to bear the
>address of the Washington Biological Survey, abbreviated
>"WASH.  BIOL. SURV." until the agency received the following
>letter from an Arkansas camper:
>
>"Dear Sirs:
>
>While camping last week I shot one of your birds.  I think it was a
>crow. We followed the cooking instructions on the leg tag and I
>want to tell you it was horrible."
>
>The bands are now marked "Fish and Wildlife Service".
>

That's great, even if a bit demographically incorrect.  And to follow it, I
give you the derivation below, from something (whose authenticity I leave
for you to judge) that landed in my mailer last night:
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As ham sandwiches go, it was perfection.

A thick slab of ham, a fresh bun, crisp lettuce and plenty of
Dijon mustard. The corners of my jaw aching in anticipation, I carried
it to the picnic table in our backyard, picked it up with both hands
but was stopped by my wife suddenly at my side.

"Hold Johnny, (our six-week-old son), while I get my sandwich," she
said. I had him balanced between my left elbow and shoulder and was
reaching again for the ham sandwich when I noticed a streak of
mustard on my fingers. I love mustard. And I had no napkin.

I licked it off.

It was *not* mustard. No man ever put a baby down faster.

It was the first and only time I have sprinted with my tongue protruding.

With a washcloth in each hand I did the sort of routine shoeshine
boys do, only I did it on my tongue.

Later my wife said, "Now you know why they call that mustard
'Poupon.'"