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From: bob@delphi.uchicago.edu (Robert S. Lewis, Jr.)
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Subject: Re: nemesis birds
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.210820.14420@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 21:08:20 GMT
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In article <1991Jan31.012506.24606@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> sid@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Sid Johnson WB6VWH) writes:

>Keywords: ARRGGHH!

>I have noticed another characteristic of nemesis birds.  Once you finally
>see ONE, they are eveywhere.  Why is that?



Not only that, before you see one, all your nonbirdwatching friends
seem to see them everywhere too:

"You're a birdwatcher, huh?  Well last weekend when I was at XXX State
Park, I saw all these really huge woodpeckers.  They were really
neat..."