K10D idea of a seagull:
http://mutley.hypermart.net/SeaGull.jpg
Larry
Walt Wayman wrote:
> You won't see many seagulls this far inland, about 200 miles, except
> occasionaly on the lakes. We call pigeons, who are about the same sort of
> nasty pests, and seagulls, "flying rats" in these here parts. Jonathan
> Livingston Seagull be damned.
>
> Walt
>
> --
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> Edward Weston
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> From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> Horrible, dark, greasy, tough meat. Gawd knows what you lubricate
>> with one - not a jet engine, that's for sure.
>> 'Seagull' covers a lot of ground - English ones are normally mid-
>> sized Herring Gulls. Here we have small Silver Gulls and the big
>> Black-backed Pacific Gull which does not flock or adapt to human
>> presence in the same way although it is not particularly shy.
>> They are highly adaptable scavengers - as they naturally clean up
>> beach and marine carrion they are quite happy to eat what we drop.
>> Mix that with a bold and aggressive temperament and you have a pest.
>> Here 'seagull' is a nickname for that kind of person who always
>> materialises when you have chips and begs a few.
>> My father was also RN in the second major unpleasantness - drove an
>> LCT at Anzio and took part in the PQ convoys on the Scylla. He always
>> had plenty of stories but none of them about seagull fishing.
>> The modern equivalent would be urban rat fishing in alleys. Damn good
>> sport I believe.
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
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