Kathy, the English sparrow is also a deliberate introduction.
Spike: I'm not a monster. Xander: Yes! You are a monster. Vampires are monsters! They make monster movies about them! Spike: Well, yeah. Got me there.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Betsy HP - Jan 06, 2006 8:54:43 am PST #8221 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Betsy HP - Jan 06, 2006 8:56:36 am PST #8222 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
In 1903, W.L. Dawson wrote "Without question the most deplorable event in the history of American ornithology was the introduction of the English Sparrow."
Jesse - Jan 06, 2006 8:57:56 am PST #8223 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yeah, I just realized the reason it isn't all good: I don't feeeel like working now! I want to screw around and sleep all day tomorrow and NOT WORK. Ah well. paid by the hour, paid by the hour, paid by the hour
§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 8:58:10 am PST #8224 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My lord. A Famima has opened in Westwood opposite a Bristol Farms. That's way too much swish grocery near me.
I can't wait to go look.
msbelle - Jan 06, 2006 9:07:47 am PST #8225 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
swish grocery..
Am picturing Austin Scarlet and Carson Kreeley grocery shopping.
tommyrot - Jan 06, 2006 9:09:05 am PST #8226 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In 1903, W.L. Dawson wrote "Without question the most deplorable event in the history of American ornithology was the introduction of the English Sparrow."
Yes, but what would we have done without all those coconuts?
Jessica - Jan 06, 2006 9:10:15 am PST #8227 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
the most deplorable event in the history of American ornithology
I love that there's a ranking for this.
Betsy HP - Jan 06, 2006 9:15:22 am PST #8228 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Was the passenger pigeon dead by 1903? Because that ought to be number 1.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 06, 2006 9:15:42 am PST #8229 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
In 1903, W.L. Dawson wrote "Without question the most deplorable event in the history of American ornithology was the introduction of the English Sparrow."
Yes, but what would we have done without all those coconuts?
Who said anything about doing without? The swallows brought the coconuts.
Gudanov - Jan 06, 2006 9:18:32 am PST #8230 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
And I believe it was African swallows that did the coconut carrying, not European swallows.