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only_human 2013-09-04 15:01

A French Canard: [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/a-case-of-ruffled-feathers-egypt-authorities-examine-spy-swan-found-with-suspicious-device/2013/08/31/d1a8f58a-124a-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_story.html"]Egypt authorities detain French ‘spy’ bird found with tracker[/URL]

kladner 2013-09-04 20:14

[QUOTE=xilman;351876]Je ne egret rien.[/QUOTE]

Je regrette beaucoup, mais j'aime bien les aigrettes!

kladner 2013-09-04 20:19

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[QUOTE=only_human;351877]A French [U][B]Canard[/B][/U]: [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/a-case-of-ruffled-feathers-egypt-authorities-examine-spy-swan-found-with-suspicious-device/2013/08/31/d1a8f58a-124a-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_story.html"]Egypt authorities detain French ‘spy’ bird found with tracker[/URL][/QUOTE]

Make up your mind! Is it a duck, an egret, or a stork? :smile:

firejuggler 2013-09-04 20:43

it's neither a bird or a plane, it's superman!

only_human 2013-09-04 20:47

[QUOTE=kladner;351933]Make up your mind! Is it a duck, an egret, or a stork? :smile:[/QUOTE]I was more definitive when I coined the quip on Slashdot:
[QUOTE]Comment: Re:In soviet Egypt (Score 4, Funny)
by only_human on Monday September 02, 2013 @03:57AM (#44737401) Attached to: Egyptian Authorities Detain French "Spy" Bird Found With Tracker

Not a swan, a mean french duck because this is a vicious canard.[/QUOTE]

Batalov 2013-09-04 20:56

[QUOTE=only_human;351877]A French Canard: [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/a-case-of-ruffled-feathers-egypt-authorities-examine-spy-swan-found-with-suspicious-device/2013/08/31/d1a8f58a-124a-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_story.html"]Egypt authorities detain French ‘spy’ bird found with tracker[/URL][/QUOTE]
[URL="http://insovietrussiajokes.wordpress.com/"]In Soviet Russia[/URL], French ‘spy’ bird detains Egypt authorities!

kladner 2013-09-04 21:45

[QUOTE=only_human;351938]I was more definitive when I coined the quip on Slashdot:[/QUOTE]

LOL! :grin:

ewmayer 2013-09-04 23:05

[QUOTE=firejuggler;351937]it's neither a bird or a plane, it's superman![/QUOTE]

As per his secret contract with the NSA, when in avian disguise and engaged in fowl behavior on their behalf, his official anti-super-hero [or is it super-antihero?] name is, spycraft-appropriately, "Crypto Knight."

[Mr. Kent originally wanted to go by the storkish moniker of "Red Heron", but his handlers didn't like the connotations of fecklessness produced by the sound of that in the ear. "There's just something fishy about the sound of that one," one was overheard saying.]

LaurV 2013-09-05 03:34

[QUOTE=kladner;351933]Make up your mind! Is it a duck, an egret, or a stork? :smile:[/QUOTE]
Yes.

only_human 2013-09-05 07:27

Stork ducks as egrets take flight
 
[QUOTE=kladner;351933]Make up your mind! Is it a duck, an egret, or a stork? :smile:[/QUOTE][QUOTE]A yellow-billed [B]stork [/B]at Pete's Pond in Botswana [B]ducks [/B]as dozens of cattle [B]egrets [/B]take off. Seen on National Geographic's WildCam Africa.
[/QUOTE]
Cattle egrets happen.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw-DkROKBXc[/url]
[YOUTUBE]xw-DkROKBXc[/YOUTUBE]
(A stork, duck, and egret walk into a bar)
"We heard that you had watered foul drinks that are [URL="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-for-the-birds-mean.htm"]for the birds[/URL]."

kladner 2013-09-05 12:43

[QUOTE=only_human;351977]Cattle egrets happen.
(A stork, duck, and egret walk into a bar)
"We heard that you had watered foul drinks that are [URL="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-for-the-birds-mean.htm"]for the birds[/URL]."[/QUOTE]

:surrender:help::bow:


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