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"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
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> Ophelia wrote:
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>> "Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
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>> > Ophelia wrote:
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>> >> > wrote in message
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>> >> > On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:23:41 -0700, koko > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>On 20 Sep 2015 18:00:52 GMT, notbob > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>>On 2015-09-20, > wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>> Soak the grain in alcohol, go to the park, feed pigeons, within
>> >> >>>> ten
>> >> >>>> minutes you can pick up however many pigeons you wish.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>Would you mind revealing which park you go to?
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>nb
>> >> >>
>> >> >>Aren't pigeons also known as squab?
>> >> >>
>> >> >>koko
>> >> >
>> >> > As I understand it squab are baby chickens of a few weeks old but I
>> >> > have seen pigeon offered on menus as squab, some don't care for the
>> >> > idea of eating pigeon
>> >>
>> >> Not here. Squab is pigeon and sometimes game birds. When I was a
>> >> child,
>> >> my father raced and bred pigeons. Any that didn't perform well went
>> >> into
>> >> the
>> >> pot To this day I won't eat pigeon.
>> >
>> >
>> > Old Russian folk proverb: "A snipe drowns in its own bog..."
>>
>> You will need to explain that one
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>
> I am reading a Nikita Khrushchev biography and that was one of his quips
> when he was threatening the Allies' presence in West Berlin during the
> late 50's... ;-)

Ahhh! Thanks

) It makes sense

I did give it more though after my last
reply and I was getting there <g>

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