Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rcb33483 From: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ArchTeryx) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Contact Notes of Winter Birds in Seattle Message-ID: <1990Nov26.163212.13984@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 26 Nov 90 16:32:12 GMT References: <11634@milton.u.washington.edu> <1990Nov26.005512.16482@massey.ac.nz> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 33 wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) writes: >In article <1990Nov26.005512.16482@massey.ac.nz> A.S.Chamove@massey.ac.nz >(A.S. Chamove) writes: >> >> I think a chickadee is what the rest of the rest of the world calls a Tit. >> >Aha! So that's why W. C. Fields called Mae West "My little chickadee"! >Sorry. Really, Sorry! >I said I wouldn't do it again, but I lied. >But honest, I won't do it again, promise... >Gosh you learn a lot in this newsgroup, though. :-) >-- Not to flame, but that's the oldest one in the birder's joke book. (At least, the implied pun is). And yes, chickadees are called tits in Europe. I believe it comes from Old English 'titr', which means small (BTW, 'titmouse' im America comes from 'titr mase' which means small bird). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- R. Cody Buchmann ^.^ "Kehaar" "He tell *me* the plan...I *know* the email: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu plan!" -Watership Down. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------