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To: Calpernia
Neat, Cal! Good to see you back in your old Finest form.....have missed your waves. :)
43 posted on 09/30/2003 7:48:00 AM PDT by Billie
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To: Billie
Goodmorning Billie! You should know better than to encourage me with the wav files :) Now I'll be posting them all day!

Click the Canary!

Tidbit:

The Canary bird came from the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa. The birds are named after the islands, not the other way around. Curiously, the Romans named them the "Dog" Islands, for the inhabitants bred an extremely large type of dog. As might be expected, the ever pragmatic Romans were more interested in fierce, guard dogs, than in little singing birds! "Canary" is a corruption of "canis", Latin for dog.

68 posted on 09/30/2003 8:19:08 AM PDT by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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