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To: Rambi who wrote (11194)6/23/1998 10:48:00 PM
From: jhild  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
Thought that you might enjoy this:

3lefties.com

We frequently see the broad billed birds here on the ranch. They are splendid when you get a chance to see them up close.

Here is another treatment of the same subject:

mosdesign.com

But I think it is missing a key ingredient.



To: Rambi who wrote (11194)6/24/1998 12:24:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
Dignity?! I will have you know I have a whole lotta dignity. You might say I have dignity coming out my... oh forget it.
I am compelled to tip my hat to you however. That is perhaps the most picturesque, understated way anyone on SI has given me the bird. Must be the syntactically sensitive Southern socialite in you. You crusade singlehandedly to maintain a certain ineffable gentility in your corner of the WWF ring that is become SI.

As I grow old, slow and porous of synapse - I must admit I have that certain je ne sais Jacques!

Maybe I better take eom's advice about those preservatives. Yo! Bartender! Another shot o' Jacques...