Posted by susan C on October 10, 2001, at 19:44:24
In reply to Earwigs ..., posted by Willow on October 10, 2001, at 18:59:14
> How 'bout: Buyer beware.
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> Don't put your eggs all in one basket. (Translation - don't put all your savings in one mutual fund)
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> This great book that you quote, what is the title and isbn no. ? Is it a reference book?
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> Could you look up PEACOCK for me?
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> Do birds have ears? If so I would like to come back as an earwig.
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> LOVE Willowboy, you sure ask alot...0-965-37945,
but i am not sure it is translated into Canadian language version...8;o)interesting bit...The male peacock's beauty and bearing led to its name becoming a synonym for a vain, self-conscious person and to the expression proud as a peacock. Britain's George III, during one of his attacks of insanity, insisted on ending every sentence in all of his speeches with the word peacock. His ministers cured him of this by telling him that peacock was a beautiful word but a royal one that a king should whisper when speaking before his subjects so they couldn't hear it. As a result the speeches of George III were less absurd...
All perhaps a lesson for our times here in America...
are you going to make me retype the whole book?
Now birds ears, hens teeth, out of 1000 books i ought to have bird anatomy...maybe the only place it was, was the 1976 enclyclodepia i just got rid of....They have 'ear patches'
mouse with wrinkled brow
susan C
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