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From: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello)
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Subject: Re: Terndy Species Nicknames
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.083026@Unify.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 15:30:26 GMT
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In article <1991Apr18.230929.24136@milton.u.washington.edu>,
jespah@milton.u.washington.edu (Kathleen Hunt) writes:

> >BBB : Boring Brown Bird - any as yet unidentified sparrow, fall warbler, etc.
> >			Of course as soon as it's identified it loses the
> >			"boring", unless it really is :-)
> I've heard this as a more charitable "LBB", for "little brown bird".

I've heard it as LBJ - little brown job.


> -- 
> that I could have killed any number of them with my geological hammer."
> (Charles Darwin)       Kathleen Hunt / jespah@milton.u.washington.edu

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