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Year of the Gallid

To: "David Rosalky" <>
Subject: Year of the Gallid
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 08:12:32 +1100
'Gallid' not there?! You might need more books. Could you find 'Triffid': it could be somewhere near that. Do you seriously expect that if the current trend continues people will say to one another: "There's a chicken crossing the road, and oh look there goes a quail, a fellow-member of the Order Galliformes (fowl-like birds), and what a coincidence there's a Guineafowl, yet another member of the Order Galliformes (fowl-like birds) following closely after it ...'





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