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Why is this a paintball sport? And where's the text? Una, are you okay? |
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Shit, he didn't die in the middle of inventing, did he? |
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I just got a phone call from the terrorists. They want 3 billion dollars and political amnesty, or they are going to kill [UB] and keep posting oddities under his name. What should I do?! |
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//Why is this a paintball sport?// |
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Q. What happens when you put a bomb inside a pigeon? |
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A. Red paintball with feathers. |
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I'm fine. I just don't think this idea needs any text. |
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Or is that what the terrorists want us to think? |
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There are no terrorists. The world ran out of communists, so they had to think of someone else to rail against. |
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Or is that what the communists want us to think? |
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But this would be a great (or terrible, depending upon your POV) way of spreading H5N1 over a wide area. |
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Rat/pigeon, chomp boom - the musical |
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Bathroom Pope Coming ! is of course the hidden message
that we must all prepare for, a la Da Vinci Code style. |
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There are a number of popular stories about this, feeding seagulls/rats/pigeons with bread soaked in WD-40/Seltzer or rice or beans and they'll explode due to the buildup of gas. I've never seen any evidence that this is true but snopes informs me that the pigeon/rice variant is a load of hooey. |
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I'm afraid you'll be feeding the pigeons with fish [UB]. |
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To the best of my knowledge, John Kettley did not write a song about pigeons. And nor did Michael Fish. |
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Wags, I heard the same thing, only in a bread-sandwich of bicarbinate of soda variation. |
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Aren't the Inuit supposed to have coiled a sharpened spring of whalebone in a chunk of frozen meat to kill polar bears? |
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There's no meat in this idea. |
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I was think more like fulminate of mercury, or RDX. Really big bang, broadcast pigeon, like a meeting between a paintball and a brick. |
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I still lean towards terrorism. Did UnaBubba have any birthmarks we could check for on this impostor? |
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"...so any bird that takes the bait'll
find it absolutely fatal
I'm persecuting pigeons in Trafalgar Square". Bill Oddie.
The preceding lines read "It's appalling, I agree, but
I'll innoculate a peanut
With a powder that would paralyse a bear" |
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(For Po) I've recently adopted a pigeon with an injured wing. I'm treating it kindly and it's just started to fly again. I will probably not release it because it is domesticated and non-native, but I'll try to give it a good life. |
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I have it on good authority that the effect you desire can be sought by wrapping lithium in bread and feeding it to the seagulls. |
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Mmmmm.... bread.... what th' *BOOOM* |
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Is it even possible to make anything that small explode? |
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spidermother. domesticated in such a short time? |
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I believe (must check my facts) that they mate for life but I have been observing that the males are pretty frisky at the moment and the females are expending huge amounts of energy by avoiding the attentions of their admirers. I hope that the fat they are burning is worth while... (it probably is as they are a very successful species - we would value them far more, if there were fewer of them.) |
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I've been admiring the gulls on the common tonight too. I forgot how big they are. |
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//they mate for life // Wow! They must be knackered. |
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[po] //domesticated in such a short time// It was domesticated before I found it - quite approachable, band on leg. It still biffs me with its wings when I get too close though. |
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its someone's homing pigeon then! they keep records of those birds I am sure. |
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Time to write a ransom note then. |
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//Aren't the Inuit supposed to have coiled a sharpened spring of whalebone in a chunk of frozen meat to kill polar bears?// |
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Ah, you're think of the wolf-traps. They bend a sharpened bone, freeze it in fat, and lay them around. Wolf comes along, eats it, and when the fat warms up, *SHINK*, and the wolf is impaled from the inside. |
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Might work for polar bears too. |
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Perhaps you could send the ransom note to the owner. Just tie it to the pigeon and let it make its way home. It will know where it lives. |
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Unfortunately I can't send it back one piece at a time that way... |
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I emailed the local homing pigeon people (thanks [po]) with the number on the leg band. Haven't heard back yet. Email me if you want to talk about non-exploding pigeons some more, [po], so we can stop bothering [UB] (unless he finds it particularly entertaining). |
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I like how the conversation changed from killing to loving. I also like the way seagulls glide around my hometown, Broad Channel, on windy days. They don't even flap their wings, they just coast in one place, like beautiful floating statues. |
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Seagulls are just seagoing pigeons. |
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// I have it on good authority that the effect you desire can be sought by wrapping lithium in bread and feeding it to the seagulls. |
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Mmmmm.... bread.... what th' *BOOOM* // |
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Panandol (or whatever it is called in different regions) has the same effect. Stick a tablet into the bread, throw it to them, they eat it, they fly off...... BANG.
Never tried it myself for the simple reason that I wouldn't want it to happen to me. I also had a pet pigeon years ago. It used to follow me everywhere. I called it "Piggy". One day it flew over the neighbours fence and got eaten by their dogs. :( |
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