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As stable as a ring of PU-239
Join Date: Jun 2004
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I suppose it's easier to take care of a few boat loads of actual swans than a few boatloads of enchanted ballerinas whose forms switch between human and avian during a specified diurnal cycle.
And then again...
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When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Presumably, my lack of a better idea is contributory to the fact that I am delivering pizzas as a second job instead of rounding up birds.
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lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
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The swan roundup comes but once a year. It's like Marichiko and the phone books. Once you run out of swans, you run out of work.
Pizzas are steadier income. But when the weather gets bad, you might want to consider a more "indoor" part time job. Although I genuinely feel for our most frequent delivery guy at the hospital, and tip extra in really bad weather, I know that most people don't do that. He tells us. (usually in appreciation of a $5 tip on a $10 order. Yes, we are softies.)
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(marsupial with backward-facing pouch)
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Not only are they mean, they're also surprisingly strong. One swipe from a swan wing can break your leg. As for eating them: in Britain you have to get the Queen's permission first, because they all belong to her (with the exception of a few swans located on one stretch of the Thames, which belong to the Dyers and the Vintners Companies).
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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I wanna be a swanboy,
and you can be my swangirl, Looking like a hero, Six-gun at my side, Chewing my tobacco. Out on the horizon, I see a puff of smoke. Indians on the warpath, etc.
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Blatantly Homosapien
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Hmmm.... wing + leg = fracture. Ever wonder why they are so mean? Because they are so beautiful. The prettiest girls are always the meanest bitches.(local observation). I find it very interesting how the Queen can just "claim" all the swans in the country. What'd she do? Have a whim? OK............. "let me see now.......I really need to own every swan in the country. I'll call Tony & have him arrange it! Anybody wants a swan around here goes through me, mind you!" Does she own all the swans in other countries, or maybe just a controlling intrest? Intriguing, to say the least. British Terrorism: Swan abuse. heehee.................. ![]()
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I can hear my ears
Join Date: Oct 2003
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'Ride a white swan like the people of the Beltane
Wear your hair long, babe you can't go wrong' -T Rex. thank you
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#23 |
self=proclaimed ass looking for truth whatever that means
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Look a swan in the eyes, and you'll find it hard to decide if it's an innocent bird your admiring or Hannible Lector in disguise...... Sorry, I said I was finished with the term innocent.... I"ve never seen such evil in a persons eyes. However, this is probably justr my warped perception. Try it, and decide for yourself.
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Them crazy, them crazy
We gonna chase those crazy White swans out of town Chase those crazy white swans Out of town I and I build a cabin I and I plant the corn Didn't my people before me Slave for this country Now you look me with a scorn Then you eat up all my corn We gonna chase those crazy white swanns Chase them crazy Chase those crazy white swans out of town
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Griff Knows.
So does Paula Cole: Where is my Roger Tory Peterson* Where is my canal song* Where is my happy ending* Where have all the swanboys gone? Yippee aye Yippee yea BTW, I asked the Queen and she said the swans taste like a cross between a spotted owl and a California condor. But not like chicken!
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lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
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What with all the songs going about, I keep thinking of Loreena McKennit's Bonny Swan, you know the one where that girl kills her sister by throwing her in the river, and then she turns into a swan and then a harp that sings the tale of her murder at the wedding of her sister to her boyfriend? It makes more sense when you listen to it.
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