Pluff recalled the last time revolver sales went through the roof — back in the 1970s.

Now, Dr Pluff: you only got 5 per cent of your patients down to their pants.

He's as Lowcountry as pluff mud, with no fancy degrees.

Rescuers borrowed a boat to get the 70-pound nanny out of the waist- deep pluff mud as it worked its way through the marsh.

Pluff said the argument for allowing semiautomatic pistols might be overstated, at least when it comes to self-defense.

"From an accuracy standpoint, from a reliability standpoint, revolvers are still very popular," Pluff said.

If you are traveling with children, at least one of them will encrust a sneaker with sandy, souffle-like "pluff" mud from the creek.

Other Common Names: Grey and white native thrush, Duke Wellington, pluff.

But, Pluff said, when it comes to safety inside the home — a major question in the minds of policymakers — semiautomatics and revolvers are no different.

If the soft pluff of the gun ever came, it was lost in the clattering hoofbeats, in the roar of the blood in his ears.

The BVs trek through waist-deep pluff mud to keep up with the current Mud King leading the run.

The rest of us, barefoot, discovered that pluff mud has that name because "pluff" is the sound it makes when you lift your foot.

Continuing NY 54A bends northeastward into the hamlet of Pluff Point, which consists of a few farms.

If you put that gun on a table and nobody touches it and nobody misuses it, that gun will never go off," Pluff said.

"If there's a total ban on all semiautomatic handguns, oh, absolutely," said Paul Pluff, spokesman for Smith & Wesson, the nation's top revolver manufacturer.

"Clint Eastwood — for several years — he was salesman of the year," Pluff said of the actor who portrayed vigilante cop Harry Callahan.

Some variations of the name Blouf include: Blouffe, Ploof, Plouff, Plouffe, Pluff, etc..

David Plouffe ( PLUFF) went on morning network news shows Tuesday to voice confidence in Obama's chances to win the presidency over John McCain.

He is a son of Vivian L. Pluff of Onsted, Michigan, and Gary S. Johnson of Richland, Pennsylvania.

But David Plouffe (pluff), the man who managed Barack Obama's winning presidential campaign last year, said he thought the elections presented a "mixed picture" and should not be overblown by either party.

"Even though [Obama] has a lot going for him, he's not very pro-gun," said Paul Pluff, a spokesman for Massachusetts-based Smith & Wesson, which has reported higher sales.

Obama campaign manager David Plouffe (PLUFF) says that 65,000 new donors contributed to the Obama campaign and that more than 2 million now have given Obama money for his presidential bid.

In a letter sent Saturday to the commission, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe (PLUFF) said Congressman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois will be their representative in further discussions about the debates.

Her short story "Seed Money" won the 2002 Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Open and "Pluff Mud" won the 2004 Colossal Short Story Contest, sponsored by the Columbia (South Carolina) Free Times.

This morning's New York Times reports that Plouffe (pronounced Pluff) is leaving to spend more time with his kids and do more consultancy - what else?! - in the private sector, where presumably he'll be able to charge gazillions for insights into how the Obama Administration is run.