That's an absolutely great story, Connor. :-) What happened to your budgie? Paul p.s. hopefully it never gets posted, but sorry to any anti-quoted content militants about the excessive quoting in the previous version of this message. On 6/15/05, Connor McDonald <mcdonald.connor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >=20 > So I start climbing this stupid tree, knowing full well that I'll > never get this stupid bird, and that even if I did, I would wring its > stupid little neck....30 mins later, I'm teetering at about 80ft and > the branches won't support my weight anymore. So I climb back down, > covered in sweat and scratches, but the effort seems to have appeased > my wife... >=20 > So I spend another 10 mins crapping on about how "its better now that > the the little bird is free" etc etc, knowing full well the > neighbour's cat will have him for dinner within a matter of hours. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l