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mark occomore
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ColinB
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You must spend ages trawling around for this stuff in order to be able to post links here, Marko!  |
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Mark Mayhew
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| Keep up the good work Mark Occomore. |
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| If your not interested Colin, why post a reply? |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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Has anything happened in Canada lately Mark? How did they see in 2011 in Toronto?
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ColinB
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | If your not interested Colin, why post a reply? |
I'm interested in the fact that you're (not "your", by the way) interested enough to post it here! |
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ruddlescat
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Didn't you know that this is an old Arkansas tradition revived by Bill Clinton when he was Governor of the State in the 1980s
Every New Year instead of eating Turkey as Americans do on Thanksgiving the State Governor hires a light plane and drops thousands of recently killed Blackbirds whilst the residents are asleep and then on the following morning the residents each have to try to gather up sixty Blackbirds and bake them in a pie
Slices of pie are then distributed around the city of Little Rock to the poor and needy including everyone eligible for food stamps and locally the occasion is nicknamed St Williams Day
Apparently there is a lot of argument in Arkansas at the moment as the present Governor not being a fan of Mr Clinton wishes to move the event to April 1st for some reason 
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| ruddlescat wrote: | | Every New Year instead of eating Turkey as Americans do on Thanksgiving the State Governor hires a light plane and drops thousands of recently killed Blackbirds whilst the residents are asleep and then on the following morning the residents each have to try to gather up sixty Blackbirds and bake them in a pie |
Marko, can you find a link and post it here please?
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becky sharp
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Helen May
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I almost posted that explanation of fireworks yesterday as I've seen it happen when we were in Florida some years ago.
There was a corporate display on the beach where we were staying and we'd seen it being set up during the day so walked along beachside to the hotel and watched it from there. We walked back to our hotel street side and all along the pavement and on the road were hundreds of dead birds, an absolutely horrible sight. The firework display was the loudest I've seen and 20 minutes later it was obviously the cause of death of these birds.
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becky sharp
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| Helen May wrote: | I almost posted that explanation of fireworks yesterday as I've seen it happen when we were in Florida some years ago.
There was a corporate display on the beach where we were staying and we'd seen it being set up during the day so walked along beachside to the hotel and watched it from there. We walked back to our hotel street side and all along the pavement and on the road were hundreds of dead birds, an absolutely horrible sight. The firework display was the loudest I've seen and 20 minutes later it was obviously the cause of death of these birds.
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It must have been,Helen |
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ruddlescat
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Apparently this subject is being discussed today on the Jeremy Vine Show
Wonder where someone got the idea from
I'm tempted to send in an e mail 
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Helen May
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Reading Becky's link I think the theory of them flying low to avoid explosions and hitting power lines could well be the case. Overhead power lines are far more common in the US than here and the road where we saw the dead birds had them at the side. We thought that when we saw them.
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