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From: mm@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (Mike Mahler)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Lost Homing Pigeon
Keywords: cockroach, vermin
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Date: 6 Sep 90 17:05:46 GMT
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In article <1990Sep6.140149.18599@granite.cr.bull.com> horvath@granite.cr.bull.com (John Horvath) writes:
>What distinquishes this bird from any other pidgeon? 

	It's little flight goggles and carrier pouch.

>Why is it a homing pidgeon? 

	It's tame and has bands on both legs one of which 
	has a message holder band on top of the other.

>If its really a homing pidgeon, could it really be lost? 
>Another words, isn't the term "lost homing pidgeon" an
>oxymoron? Don't all pidgeons do these kinds of annoying things?

	Have bugs?  Yes.

>And more questions: After all that talk about what we were
>going to discuss in this group, why are you talking about an
>invertebrate? Everyone knows that pidgeons are really cockroaches,
>not birds.      ;')

	Wings rats they are.