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Don't buy used silverware
« on: November 01, 2009, 09:16:54 AM »
You never know where it's been  :o

Looks nice and shiny.
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Re: Don't buy used silverware
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2009, 09:37:58 AM »
She could probably sue several resteraunts for serving meals with out proper instructions on what to eat and what not to eat ;).
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Re: Don't buy used silverware
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2009, 05:02:44 PM »
Quote from: rahock on November 01, 2009, 09:37:58 AM
She could probably sue several resteraunts for serving meals with out proper instructions on what to eat and what not to eat ;).
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Only here in the US ;D
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Re: Don't buy used silverware
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2009, 03:35:40 AM »
She was probably a magpie in an earlier life. Amazing that she survived too. I'd recommend cuttlery made from digestible plastic in the future, vitamin-enriched.
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Re: Don't buy used silverware
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2009, 08:56:08 AM »
Quote from: uwe on November 02, 2009, 03:35:40 AM
She was probably a magpie in an earlier life.

THAT is brilliant!
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« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2009, 09:17:38 AM »
And of course, it never occurred to her that this might be a teeny little problem.
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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2009, 09:32:35 AM »
Too bad she doesn't want to swallow swords; she'd be a natural for a sideshow act.
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Re: Don't buy used silverware
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2009, 05:02:25 AM »
Quote from: uwe on November 02, 2009, 03:35:40 AM
She was probably a magpie in an earlier life.

A species not commonly referenced here in the US - outside of Heckle and Jeckle cartoons, anyway. ;D
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« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2009, 06:12:51 AM »
i thought Heckle and Jeckle were crows
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Re: Don't buy used silverware
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2009, 09:06:19 AM »
They look more like crows to me, but the world's untimate authority on everything (wikipedia) sez Magpies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckle_and_Jeckle
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« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2009, 09:15:40 AM »
Don't you have magpies in the US? I didn't know.





A relative to crows and ravens, it's a pretty and smart bird, quite combative too though their reputation as nest robbers eradicating all other species is a myth. It used to be rather rare in urban places, but judging from how often you see it in recent years, it has - like the blackbird which was solely a forest bird a hundred years ago - become hemerophile (now there's a word to look up!) over time.  
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« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2009, 09:19:06 AM »
Heckle and Jeckle were crows. And weren't they created to sport traits associated with black people which has seen them fall into (undeserved) pc disgrace?
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« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2009, 09:32:44 AM »
Quote from: uwe on November 03, 2009, 09:19:06 AM
Heckle and Jeckle were crows. And weren't they created to sport traits associated with black people which has seen them fall into (undeserved) pc disgrace?

I think that's right....although one had a Brooklyn accent, the other a British accent.  But they've disappeared along with Speedy Gonzales, and the Tijuana Toads, and Forghorn Leghorn (parody of rednecks?  I haven't figured that one out).
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« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2009, 09:38:47 AM »
Heckle and Jeckle were always said to be magpies in the cartoons. Sure they didn't look anything like magpies, but since when do cartoons look accurate?

Yes we have magpies, more in the western states.
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« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2009, 09:44:03 AM »
Quote from: Pilgrim on November 03, 2009, 09:32:44 AM
I think that's right....although one had a Brooklyn accent, the other a British accent.  But they've disappeared along with Speedy Gonzales, and the Tijuana Toads, and Forghorn Leghorn (parody of rednecks?  I haven't figured that one out).

Foghorn Leghorn was based on Senator Beauregard Claghorn, a radio character on the Fred Allen Show played by Kenny Delmar. I read an interview with Delmar, who I think was from Boston, he said the idea for the character came from a train trip he took where he sat next to a long-winded Texan who talked like that.

He made a movie, too: http://www.archive.org/details/its_a_joke_son (no way would this be made today).
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