Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!joet
From: joet@mmintl.UUCP (Joe Thornton)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Skippy, what's wrong with you?
Message-ID: <2628@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 87 23:16:04 GMT
References: <9086@utzoo.UUCP> <31@cfiprod.UUCP>
Reply-To: joet@mmintl.UUCP (Joe Thornton)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT.
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I doubt that there is anything wrong with the "bird-pet-haters"
of the University of Toronto.  I expect that they feel, like me,
that life is too short to be bothered with long accounts of 
constipated budgies and such matters.

On the other hand, I am amused by some of the articles related to
this, especially the baiting of haranguing harridans like Tracy
Larrabee and Susan Scheide... :-)

If somebody can organize the renaming of this group, that would 
be fine with me (I tried to email someone about my preferences
but failed to get through).  Otherwise I guess we'll all survive
with a modicum of tolerance and a sense of humor.

As for the real business, birdwatching, I wish I could make useful
contributions but I'm pretty incompetent.  I will report though that
I spent last Sunday in the El Yunque tropical rain forest in Puerto
Rico (wonderful place) and, inevitably, did not see any of the 
endangered Puerto Rican parrots.  How ecstatic I would have been
to see one... [You see, I really do love parrots. :-)]

	Joe