Right Thinking From The Left Coast
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Aucune Cigogne, Aucun Bébé
by Lee

They might be useless against Nazis or terrorists, but the French really know how to take on waterfowl.

A satellite-tagged white stork whose progress was monitored by scientists for over 2,000 days was killed after it was electrocuted by power lines in France, a conservation group said on Wednesday.

BirdLife International said the stork, named Donna, had been tracked by satellite longer than any other bird on record and her death highlighted the dangers power lines pose to the elegant birds.

Well, at least we know why France’s birth rate is so low.

Posted by Lee on 03/09/05 at 03:43 PM (Discuss this in the forums)

Comments


Posted by on 03/09/05 at 04:58 PM from United States

Fried stork?? * * new French delicacy alert * *

Posted by Poosh on 03/09/05 at 05:03 PM from Europe

Oddly enough, the only time I was emotionally moved while watching Oliver Stone’s Alexander was when his horse got killed. That was pretty upsetting.

Since when did Alexander the Great have Scots in his army? Honestly…

Posted by on 03/09/05 at 05:15 PM from United States

I’m wondering why certain posts seem to have their comments shut down.  Is Lee doing it or is it a glitch?

Posted by on 03/09/05 at 05:38 PM from United States

I don’t know if it traffic related or what, I am having the same problem.

Posted by on 03/09/05 at 06:07 PM from United States

Me three.
I can’t get into read the comments on the Carbon Copy thread. Loads nuthin’.

Ah well…

Posted by Kilroy on 03/09/05 at 06:25 PM from United States

Me Four.
I can’t get into read the comments on the Carbon Copy thread. Loads nuthin’.

Ah well…

Strange things are afoot.

Posted by on 03/09/05 at 06:28 PM from United States

If Christine can’t post RTLC content, then noone can!

Posted by Kilroy on 03/09/05 at 06:29 PM from United States

Well sense this thread is about fried chicken.  Does anyone now anything about Option snowboards?  Looking into to buying one but I never met any one who uses that board.  Anyone, Anyone.

Posted by Lee on 03/09/05 at 06:39 PM from United States

There is an issue in the blog software I use where if you write a specific something it can screw up a post.  I’m not going t say what it is, becuase I don’t want asshats doing it maliciously.  But if you type a certain text string everything goes poo-poo.  It’s fixed now.

Posted by on 03/09/05 at 07:01 PM from United States

Although it was only a stork (a female stork at that) and its death was apparently accidental, the French military claimed that it had set the power lines there specifically to catch such “invading enemy storks”.  Thus, France claimed its first military victory since the Napoleanic wars. 

In the immortal words of Clancy Wiggum “That’s good work, boys”.

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