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#44401
10/12/2001 6:26 PM
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Technolgy strikes another blow for faster communication:
"The rapacious advance of technology has claimed the jobs of more innocent victims: 400 pigeons.
The Orissa state pigeon carrier service in India is cruelly sacking two-thirds of its winged workforce because of the increasing use of the internet and email.
A spokesman for the pigeon carrier service said: "We are going to retrench the pigeons to save the 5.4m rupees (£78,000) we spend annually on them."
Fear not: the practice of "retrenching pigeons" has nothing to do with ovens and pastry. The dole-birds will be handed over to the state's wildlife department, bless their little feathers.”
(with thanks to Jon at Silicon.com)
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#44402
10/12/2001 6:53 PM
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Perhaps they could put stools in their roosts so the birds could start a new career as stool pigeons. [ducking-for-cover e-con]
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#44403
10/12/2001 6:55 PM
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Forgot to note in my earlier post that when I saw the title of your posting I thought it was going to be something about the notes on gestures in the Insults thread.
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#44404
10/13/2001 2:43 AM
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Dear Mav: Maybe you could make a buck, buying the pigeons and selling them to the Taliban. The way things are going, that may be the only way they can send messages.
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#44405
10/13/2001 2:07 PM
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when I saw the title of your posting I thought it was going to be something about the notes on gestures in the Insults thread
Just goes to show ya' that we tend to quickly click on titilating headers!
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#44406
10/13/2001 2:29 PM
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WOW - Leave me out of "we"... in this case.
I thought fer-sure someone would have pointed out by now; "it" is usually referred to as "flipping them the bird" in the US... and more specifically, nobody talks about "it"... they "just do it".
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#44407
10/14/2001 3:16 PM
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WOW - Leave me out of "we"... in this case.
OK.
Sorry.
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#44408
10/14/2001 3:42 PM
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Being so used to not being *grouped and attempting to insure *accurate reflection are often in conflict. I'm sorry for unintentionally provoking an apology, especially from Mom.
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