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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:45:36 -0800
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Friday bird AKICIV (All Knowledge is Contained in Vandom)
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
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Was I too subtle?

In the movie, King Arthur and Patsy were asked where they got the coconut that Patsy was using to create the sound of horse's hooves. It was proposed that a swallow had carried the coconut to the Isle by gripping the husk with its claws. This, of course, is a silly idea.

In your case, a bird which might have been a swallow was seen. Mike South asked whether it had traces of coconut husk on its claws.

So if a bird, rather than a tropical seed, was found far from home with husk on its claws, then the obvious, equally silly idea, is that the swallow floated ashore on a coconut.

Jeez.

If you have to explain it . . .

-- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) Bend, OR KG6RCR

On 11/20/2009 1:35 PM David Beierl wrote:

> At 02:20 PM 11/20/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: >> Are you suggesting that it drifted ashore on the back of a coconut? > > Not exactly. If you watch a movie called Monty Python and the Holy > Grail or something close to it, you'll understand the reference. > > :) > d >


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