BS: Endangered Species

Subject: BS: Endangered Species
From: EBarnacle
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 11:41 AM

This came over the wire this morning:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061029/ap_on_bi_ge/flamingo_s_swan_song

Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 01:17 PM

ah, yes....sad indeed. But I do know someone...a Mudcat member in fact, who provides a sanctuary for the poor things. I think their species will endure for the foreseeable future.

Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 03:23 PM

Another victim of avian flu, and not doubt the government is covering it up to prevent panic.

Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species
From: autolycus
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 04:05 PM

Perhaps we are an endangered species.




    Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 12:50 PM

Article incomplete and biased. No mention of the endangered garden gnome.

Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 01:23 PM

That's because of the lack of a sufficiently precise Gnomenclature.

Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species
From: Amos
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 01:58 PM

I have to demur -- being agnomostic. I do not have sufficient evidence to conclude that garden gnomes are credible.

But there are several songs about them in the Song Challenge history.




A

Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species
From: autolycus
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 04:30 PM

Ah, so we're saying we don't care if we're gnominally an endangered species?




    Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 04:55 PM

I think you all have the entirely wrong gnominclature!

Anyway, MaryinKentucky spotted one a while back near her home and there is a later photo of one in blushing pink, which will always be protected, if I have anything to say about it! You may view these rare birds by clicking here and scrolling down..

Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 06:49 PM

I would like to point out that I don't actually COLLECT flamingoes -- it's just that I'm a flamingo magnet.

It all started back in the early '80s when I had some flamingo jewelry and made an offhand remark to Curmudgeon that I thought it would be a nice idea if we had somewhere between 100 and 250 pink plastic flamingoes (cuz everyone knows less than a 100 is tacky) going up and down the driveway --with little white Christmas tree lights strung between them. And the cats could sell postcards and people would come from as far away as...Epping, NH (next town over).

Then he started giving me flamingoes, and other people started giving me flamingoes.

I actually did get a boxed set of the original Featherstone flamingoes made in Massachusetts for my birthday this year.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species
From: Paul Burke
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 03:46 AM

On our block, all of the guys call her flamingo
Cos her nose is long and sharp,
And she's always eating fish.
When she walks she looks so fine, like a flamingo,
Cos her knees bend the wrong way,
And she's ankle deep in mud...