From: Miriam English (miriam@werple.net.au)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 02:46:01 MDT
At 03:49 PM 26/09/2001, Andrew Clough wrote:
>>one percent of falling raisins would strike and mutilate stock and
>>children, raising a cry for vengeance.
>
>They *do* have parracutes.
The question on everybody's lips is: are parrakeets strong enough to ferry
raisins safely to the ground? :-)
>Afganistan is a big country, people can hear planes approaching, and I
>can't see livestock being mutilated by packages of the size I imagine
>(2x2x2). Frightened or injured...maybe. But not mutilated.
And besides they could roast the parrakeets for added protein, adding to
nutritional value of the meal and more than making up for the occasional
scream from someone with a dead parrakeet buried beak-first in the top of
their head.
:-)
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