BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning

Subject: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Barry Finn
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 01:32 PM

I just recieved this via my e-mail this morning.

In an attempt to thwart the spread of bird flu,
George W. Bush has just ordered the bombing
of the Canary Islands.

Sorry to be the messenger of such bad tidings. Don't shoot me.
Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Wesley S
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 01:47 PM

It's about time he took action. Those canaries are just a bunch of yellow bellys anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: gnu
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 02:21 PM

There a flu bird on my window sill.....

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: gnu
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 02:22 PM

There's...

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 02:25 PM

Just to be on the safe side he'd better nuke Turkey.

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: jacqui.c
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 02:46 PM

The last time bird flue came up on the news around here was when Cheney had his little hunting accident. Then it all went quiet again.

I am interested in what else is happening each time they raise the spectre of death as a result of this disease - a good way to bury bad news, as a spin doctor in the UK said at the time of 9/11. Give people something to fear and maybe it stops them from looking at the real problems.....

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 03:01 PM

you could have a bird IN your 'flue' and it would be an entirely different problem from having 'flu' in your bird.

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: gnu
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 03:28 PM

Hmmm... nah... too easy... and sleazy.

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Peace
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 03:29 PM

Ouch!

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 03:46 PM

well, *I* was suggesting the sort of flue you find in your house....I can't imagine what other image the word conjures up for some.. ☺

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 04:29 PM

I had a little bird
It's name was Enza
I opened up the window
And out flew-Enza!

Thanks for the laugh, Barry!

How true, Jacqui. This admin. is very good at diverting attention, but I think too much is piling up and they are going to help themselves into a brick wall.

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Peace
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 04:31 PM

What I don't understand is how Bush getting bombed in the Canary Islands will thwart birds getting flu.

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Bert
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 04:34 PM

Well I told this joke to some friends and they thought I was serious.

Now exactly what does that say about our illustrious president.

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Peace
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 04:39 PM

Let's pray he doesn't bomb the Virgin Islands.

(I am leaving now."

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 05:06 PM

Calling Dr. Strangelove...ride 'em, cowboy!

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Peace
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 05:11 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Arnie
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 11:37 AM

Well, bird flu is now confirmed in France and as I live nr. the Channel which makes my house in the firing line. I've heard that it can spread to cats - if my moggies start going quack I'm gonna have to shoot them.....

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 11:36 AM

A bear, a lion and a chicken meet.

The Bear says: "If I roar in the forest, the entire forest is shivering with fear."

The Lion says: "If I roar in the desert, the entire desert is afraid of me."

Then the Chicken says: "Big deal. I only have to cough, and the entire planet sh*t's itself."

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Flash Company
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 11:37 AM

As Terry Wogan put it 'If I read one more 'Doom & Gloom' report in the papers I'm going to smoke 400 ciggies, drink a barrel of whisky, eat 50 Big Macs and fly to China and kiss a chicken!'

FC

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: David C. Carter
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 11:44 AM

"Swan Lake"is now banned from all Opera Houses here in France.

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: GUEST,Coyote Breath who is a sucker for bird stori
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 04:54 PM

I once had a bird in my flue. I borrowed a neighbor's landing net (used to coax a caught fish into the creel) I open the wood stove's door and banged on the stove pipe. I hoped I could catch the bird, which turned out to be a yellow bellied sapsucker, (really) in the hand net and take it safely outside. Nope! it managed to slip past the net and proceeded to fly frantically around my reading room (I had shut all the doors but the one to the outside). As it flew from my flue it beat against first one wall of the room and than another. It was covered with soot. It left wing and body prints on all the walls, severally. Finally it flew out of the room, out through my porch and up to a handy limb of my giant catalpa tree. There it scolded me for about five minutes before flying off.

Took me the better part of that day to clean the walls.

CB

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Gurney
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 03:28 AM

I once had to dismantle a gas stove to get a sparrow out of it.
They fall asleep and topple down the flue, and once inside, the only way is down. No room to spread their wings, of course.

I had the sense to open all the windows that would, and draw curtains on all the windows that wouldn't, first. No problem, she went straight out. Through two rooms. Perhaps sparrows are more intelligent than sapsuckers. Omnivores, you see.

If you have an open flue larger than 4", perhaps some chicken wire over or in it?

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Peace
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 10:28 PM

So far there have been 95 human deaths world-wide according to the WHO.

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 01:28 AM

Peace, what the hell would an over-the-hill rock band know about human deaths from bird flu? Next thing you know, there'll be a rock-opera about it.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 06:36 AM

Cockadoodle-atchoo!

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Extra, extra!!! Bird Flue Warning
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 08:18 AM

I believe GW is doing his bit against bird flue. So far he has bombed Turkey and invaded the Canary Islands.

:D