Okay, I've got one of these too. One day at work after returning from my
lunch-time stroll my boss asked where I'd gone that day. I told him I'd
been over to the nearby park and had run across a flock of ducks. I began
telling him about the different species in the flock - Mallards, American
Wigeon, etc. - when this very intelligent man looked at me and very
seriously said "you mean there's more than one kind of duck?"

I just about fell over!

Laurinda
Mountlake Terrace
RindaA at worldnet.att.net

----- Original Message -----
From: David Chelimer <chelimer at earthlink.net>
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 7:48 PM
Subject: Re. Amusing Anecdote


>
>
> My turn!
>
> About five years after I'd started birding, my mother got a call from a
> friend of hers. A bird she'd never noticed before had appeared in her
yard.
> Having heard me discuss field marks and the like, mom asked her for
details
> and phoned me to ask what I thought it might be.
>
> David: Hello?
>
> Mother: Hi. Claire phoned to tell me she's got an unusual bird in her yard
> and wants to know what it is.
>
> David: What does it look like?
>
> Mother: It looks like a sparrow, but it's not.
>
> David: (Choking and gasping noises)
>
>