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Old 02-21-2012, 08:02 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by sandypossum View Post
We once rescued a baby magpie (the swoop-and-remove-your-eye Australian kind, not the twee nick-your-baubles European kind) and fed it bits of meat with chopsticks. It would grab the meat and deftly flick it straight back into your face. Ungrateful beastie.
You're supposed to chew it up and vomit it into their mouths for them.
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Originally Posted by BigV View Post
As you would return a dish to the kitchen served uncooked, unprepared. You were being told, in the only way he knew how, to chew it and puke it before serving it.

FTR, I love the adjective "twee". Thanks!
Oh. never mind. V got here first. and agreed about the use of twee in that sentence.
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