Tuesday, December 21, 2010

"I say, Holmes, someone's pinched the Great Auk!"

An American has been charged with stealing 299 stuffed birds from a museum in England.

7 comments:

  1. Nah, it's a set up. Someone aukestrated it.

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  2. Stealing stuffed birds from stuffed shirts.

    TimT's comment = Brilliant.

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  3. Is that a parrot in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

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  4. This is for the birds!!
    ... the thief then took flight?

    Cheers

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  5. Of course the question is how they got out. No doubt with your appreciation of all things antipodean Paco you would be familiar with "budgie smugglers" -
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgie_smugglers. Are you sure this chap was a seppo and not from some other colony?

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  6. cac: This is more my style.

    It was definitely a seppo, all right.

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