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Thank you all; I had intended to spend the day in quiet seclusion but a birthday phone call from my cranky old father killed that plan (you know how hard it is for an old crank to do well-wishing? or how entertaining?)
One Swell Foop is an officially designated spoonerism for One Fell Swoop (and for the record, I started using it two years before Piers Anthony; but then my favorite part of his books is the bad punning).
And yes, Foop is an all-purpose word. It's very foopy, foops well with others, practices foopery, can be full frontal foop and is often foopist. So foop you.