>"He who has a Tate's is lost."

"People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad
tracks." --Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Wonderful, Dale! At least a dime's worth.

Are you and other Tweets familiar with the British Broadcasting
Corporation's radio program, My Word, with Dennis Norden & Frank Muir? Each
weekly program featured a section late in the program in which each would
*improvise* a familiar phrase given at the beginning of the program such as
the above into a witty, sometimes brilliant shaggy dog story. The only
bird-related story I can find by them is based on a line from a hymn by
Mendelssohn, 'O, for the Wings, the Wings of a Dove'; it's only so-so by
their standards, and far too long to reproduce.

I don't know if My Word is still running, or if it's available via Public
Radio in the US. It shows up on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp from time to
time.

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
michael_price at mindlink.bc.ca