These just came over birdchat. They may make you smile.
>"Traveling South"
>As migration approached, two elderly vultures doubted they could make the
>trip south, so they decided to go by airplane. When they checked their
>baggage, the attendant noticed that they were carrying two dead racoons. "Do
>you wish to check the raccoons through as luggage?" she asked.
>
>"No, thanks," replied the vultures. "They're carrion."
>Two crows are sitting on a fence when a jet airplane roars overhead about
>mach 2. One crow says wistfully to the other "I sure wish I could fly that
>fast...."
>The other crow replies "Well, if you had two butts and both of them on fire,
>you could!"
>
John Penhallurick
Associate Professor John M. Penhallurick<>
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