Dutch Dominoe Sparrow Slaughter
 

By golly. What's this world coming to, when the foolish game of dominoes is SO important that a poor sparrow, who's only fault was to mess up 93 billion dominoes, needs be dispached, in such haste? A Dutch Thing? I ask you.

The sparrow had to go anyway. Filthy beasts. The dominoes were a convenient excuse.

Huh? Sparrows? Dominoes? Have the Dutch entered into some Vietnam style conflict with the avian world? Pray do tell more. :confused:

Yep, got me - thought there was going to be some picture clue or something. 93 billion dominoes, you say? Never knew there were so many. Only ever seen them being played with in working men's clubs in the north of England. Strange game in any event. Never saw any samll birds creating havoc with them either....? (not that northerners would stand for such things, only pigeons are tolerated in numbers...)

It was 23,000 dominoes. But my question is, how is something with the word "common" in its name considered endangered?

when it/they becomes uncommon, but no one's thought to change the name to reflect that.

Apparently sparrows have been dying off in their thousands. We used to see them all over London and suburb gardens when I was a lad, but now you hardly see them at all. Theories for their disappearance range from use of pesticides to being subject to some rare bird illness to predators, etc, etc. But one thig is for certain - there are far, far fewer numbers now of the common sparrow than there used to be...

No problem......you can have ours. All of them. :)

Awwww... Can't we keep just one or two, Bruce?

Hey! I just remembered! A lot of ours ARE English sparrows that some idiot brought over on the Mayflower or something. Maybe we should restore them to their rightful habitat. Who wants to volunteer to round them all up? :lol:

Fluffy needs to read the forum more often. I already told everybody about this incident in the Domino Day thread a week ago ;)