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Posted on 12/20/2017 7:01:27 AM PST by Western Phil

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1 posted on 12/20/2017 7:01:27 AM PST by Western Phil
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To: Western Phil

I’ve always heard them pluralized as titmice, being the child of avid amateur birdwatchers.


2 posted on 12/20/2017 7:04:02 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Western Phil

Lost me at global warming


3 posted on 12/20/2017 7:04:20 AM PST by stanne
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To: Western Phil

Mice.


4 posted on 12/20/2017 7:05:06 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas, Mr. President, and another happy year!)
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To: Western Phil

I vote for tit-mouses.


5 posted on 12/20/2017 7:06:00 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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“mouses”...if you say “mice”, it implies little rodents.


6 posted on 12/20/2017 7:06:07 AM PST by gr8eman (Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
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To: Western Phil

That’s a tuft one.


7 posted on 12/20/2017 7:06:19 AM PST by arthurus (Q)
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Tufted tit-meese.


8 posted on 12/20/2017 7:06:45 AM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Western Phil

Tufted titmouses....................


9 posted on 12/20/2017 7:06:57 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Western Phil

That’s a tuft one.


10 posted on 12/20/2017 7:07:18 AM PST by arthurus (Q)
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https://natlands.org/mariton-tufted-titmice-or-titmouses/


11 posted on 12/20/2017 7:07:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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That’s a tuft one.

(titter)

12 posted on 12/20/2017 7:07:48 AM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Western Phil

That would be a “pair of tits” Phil.


13 posted on 12/20/2017 7:08:12 AM PST by DrainBamage
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Did a titmoose bite your sister?


14 posted on 12/20/2017 7:08:49 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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A tufted tit-moose once bit my seester....


15 posted on 12/20/2017 7:09:09 AM PST by Hessian (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: Red Badger
Mouse is both singular and plural.
Similar to 1 moose. 2 moose.
16 posted on 12/20/2017 7:09:56 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Western Phil

Don’t worry about the birds, you have a bigger problem with compound words.


17 posted on 12/20/2017 7:09:59 AM PST by FirstFlaBn
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but due to global warming and the fact that Atlanta and Long Island have been hogging all our snow


Early indication to stop reading, as everything else that follows is suspect nonsense.


18 posted on 12/20/2017 7:10:27 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: DrainBamage

They come in pairs.


19 posted on 12/20/2017 7:10:34 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: Western Phil

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/titmouse


20 posted on 12/20/2017 7:10:41 AM PST by deport
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