Subject: Re: Side-hill Gouger (was: Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Tales)
Date: Dec 14 22:53:25 1997
From: Jerold Converse - sanjer at televar.com


Michael Price wrote:
>
> With all *due* respect and deference to your Prof. Farfignewton (*where* did
> you say he took his degree? Hm; pity), Jerry, allow me to tell you of a more
> recent paper by Herr Doktor Helmut von Fenderbender (Das Gougen der Slopen
> in Der Bearen Uber den Alpen, 1989) extending the work of Martin (Bears over
> the Mountains: an altitudinal survey; with supplementary remarks on the
> Side-hill Gouger, a little-known species from the Great Basin, 1961) and
> Leopold von Fonebone's fine article in the July 1964 National Geographic,
> The Side-hill Gouger, Cattle's Friend or Foe? shows unequivocally that there
> is only *one* species of Side-hill Gouger, but that the direction
> taken--whether back or forth, or, as von Fenderbender points out in the
> interests of greater accuracy, left and right--is gender-, not
> species-characteristic. He demonstrates beyond Professor F.'s quibbles and
> nitpicking that the tracks on the trails show the females are always right
> and the males always left in the dust in a way dependent on the relationship
> between current popularity of Earth's geomagnetism and the way that water
> drains out of a bathtub.
>
> Michael Price We aren't flying...we're falling with style!
> Vancouver BC Canada -Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story
> mprice at mindlink.net

Jerry Converse writes:

Hmmmm--how could I snip any portion of such an exposition of the
English--err Canadian--I mean Canada language.
I am humbled. You have done far more research on the subject, and in
such a short time! I sit corrected. Or is it stand corredted.

Thanks
Jerry Converse
Grand Coulee,WA