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Jul 5Liked by Dr. David Thor

I loved the photo of your uncle when he was a girl but seems like once upon a time the gentleman really seemed to dig fancy clothes with all the frills. Bird bros have those fine feathers that the lady birds fancy. They don't seem to mind at all that the males are better dressed while the females are plain-Janes. You'll not see that among the human realtors, especially when they're on a billboard.

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Jul 5Liked by Dr. David Thor

I grew up in the hood with the Red-winged blackbirds, never had one do a fly-by pecking at me.

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In that story, the red-wingers were screaming at me but they didn’t actually land on my helmet and peck. But in Toronto the did. One did a land-and-peck and from then on I went past her nest with a helmet on. Urban blackbirds, am I right? It’s all about real estate with those types.

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Just this morning a wren in the city shat on my head as I was leaving work. I was going to go back inside to wash it off but the prep cook was so miserable when I was leaving that I figured it would be better to just go home and take a shower, except my daughter was in my shower. So I had a snack and waited. My daughter laughed at me when I told her a bird shat on my head and I didn't want the prep cook to see me because he might take it as a bad omen. If I could have counted on the cook to laugh at me I would have gone back in to cheer him up but it ain't that way with him.

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Jun 30Liked by Dr. David Thor

How come you don’t have a Brazilian followers?

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Jun 30Liked by Dr. David Thor

lol

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Where did I get the idea that even two subscribers were two too many for y'all? Is this some kind of Jedi mind data mining trick? I thought you only needed an ashtray, a paddle game, a remote control, matches, a lamp, a chair, a magazine and that's all you need! What are y@, some kinda jerk? I'm going to follow you like a puppy, ha!

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