Discussion: birds

No topic. Just wanted to see "birds" and "bees" in the same discussion list.

Oh boy.

Seems like a good place for this link ;)

bubo bubo

Check out paragraph six in particular.

Ok, make the thread animals, animals causing havoc in orienteering. I submit as an example, Troy de Haas tangling with a monkey while training in Hong Kong.

jj - that sounds like something piutepro could have written.

Hey, isn't that Geoff Bartley who's always at the bluegrass sessions at the Cantab on Tuesday nights?

People on AP go to the Cantab on Tuesday nights? People on AP go to the Cantab ever?

Is that bad?

Nope, just surprised. My sister used to frequent it, I didn't realize anybody else I knew did. Perhaps one more reason why she's made for O. ;-)

Me? Animals? Whistle pigs and vegan rottweilers? The moon over the grazing interstate? I don't know what you are talking about.

A potential scientific project is the "Guide to Attackpointed, Alpine & Laramanian Creatures", which will cover all sorts of jackrabbits, whistle pigs, marmots, beer moronists, highjacking turkeys, snow snakes, ingenious engineer beavers, glistening night cows, deer colliding with humans and white squirrels, not to speak of the currently banned word ------ ------, a pointy nosed sharp dented thing.

Yep, that's Geoff, the maestro of the Cantab open mike night. I've seen him play a couple of times, and have a bnnch of his albums, but I've never actually been inside the Cantab.

J-J, I want to add your unnamed animal to the AALC Guide, can you give some specs? A rattlebear? A moronoid? A singing marmot?

Sounds like a foreign film. Is the Cantab one of those places where people wear berets and snap their fingers between verses of poetry?

Maybe. On Wednesday nights they have Poetry Slams at the Cantab Lounge.

Wow, those guys look serious. Maybe we should combine the WOC with the Individual World Poetry Slam.

The M&Ms are quite slow in my experience. I almost stepped on one of them during some nightly runs. So this animal can be added to the Guide, which will be written as pure poetry. I have a chance to go to the WOC without having to compete with the new trail-o prodigy.

Good book to read - Rare Birds by Edward Riche (fiction). Takes place in Newfoundland. Hilarous. Guy runs an out-of -the way high end restaurant. Business is poor so they phone in a fake rare bird sighting that gets all the birders down looking for it, who naturally check out the restaurant. Business soars. Meanwhile his friend is building a personal subamarine and is paranoid that the RCMP and others are after him. Book is far better than the movie with William Hurt although Andy Jones is pretty good as the friend.

i may be slow
but i know where to go
can't say as much
for that out of touch
seed of Sauron
rank submoron
but i do not mean
to whine and keen
i'm on some roll
i've no control
over foul or fair
the rhyme takes me where
ever