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Fake US leg band gets pigeon a reprieve in Australia
AP ^ | Jan. 15, 2021 | ROD McGUIRK

Posted on 01/15/2021 3:16:26 PM PST by McGruff

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To: piasa

Glad the FBI didn’t investigate this Mr Pigeon would be sleeping with his forefathers. The info clearing the bird might be with Seth Riche’s Laptop.


21 posted on 01/15/2021 5:04:19 PM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: McGruff

There must be big money in counterfeit leg bands. Hmmmmmm


22 posted on 01/15/2021 6:46:15 PM PST by ALASKA (Trump will win resoundingly, but it's not going to be pretty. )
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To: McGruff

A little known fact.

Military Carrier pidgeons were spreading the Spanish flu during WWI far and wide as they were used throughout the theator and cross channel.

The reason the carrier pigeons were employed in the first place was that the artillery and troop movements throughout the region made other forms Communications telegraph and telephone impossible as lines were being continually destroyed.

Radio wasn’t really a practical idea for the field in those early years.


23 posted on 01/15/2021 7:08:10 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: ptsal

My fault, I must have been a little subtle with my Monty Python and search for the Holy Grail movie joke using swallows?

Great movie.


24 posted on 01/15/2021 8:21:06 PM PST by Hulka ( )
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To: McGruff

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25 posted on 01/15/2021 11:56:52 PM PST by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - multi issue voter)
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To: Hulka

Any movie...five minutes and sleep takes over.

Hollywood would starve based on my viewing habits.


26 posted on 01/16/2021 4:50:45 AM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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Yeah. Me too for a while yet, though search for the holy grail is a classic and good movie, many time used as a comedic reference here on FR.
Current stuff, o way do I watch. Tired of being mocked (white, male. Conservative, Christian). Tired of movies/tv always forcing homo, tran, inter-racial as being essential to making the world function.

Rant over.

Cheers.


27 posted on 01/16/2021 8:39:44 AM PST by Hulka ( )
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To: Hulka

How do you knooww so much about pigeons


28 posted on 01/16/2021 2:40:40 PM PST by freedomlover
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To: freedomlover

Depends. . .laden or unladen?


29 posted on 01/16/2021 4:32:08 PM PST by Hulka ( )
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To: freedomlover

Don’t know about penguins, but the net is chock full of interesting information on Swallows:

https://youtu.be/pWS8Mg-JWSg?t=94

https://youtu.be/liIlW-ovx0Y?t=60

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWS8Mg-JWSg

;-)


30 posted on 01/16/2021 4:46:37 PM PST by Hulka ( )
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