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Re: anachronistic parrot

To: (John Leonard)
Subject: Re: anachronistic parrot
From: John Penhallurick <>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 10:25:09 +1100
John,
An Eastern Rosella made another amazing appearance in a trashy film called
"The Golden Child" where it appeared to be a manifestation of some sort of
supernatural spirit!

John Penhallurick



At 08:56 6/03/98 +1100, you wrote:
>A few weeks ago we were debating whether Queen Elizabeth I could have had a
>Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.
>
>I recently saw a video of the BBC's version of Fielding's Tom Jones, and in
>the first episode Squire Weston returns to his west country house from
>Bristol with a present for his daughter Sophia?this turns out to be an
>Eastern Rosella; the date, the 1720s!
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>John Leonard (Dr),
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>Woden, ACT 2606
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>'it is always more acceptable... to be precisely wrong
>than to be vaguely right.'
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