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Re: birding-aus tick lists

To: John Leonard <>
Subject: Re: birding-aus tick lists
From: "M. Scott O'Keeffe" <>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:39:01 +1000
John Leonard wrote:
> 
> I just love the debate about tick-lists, which shows the strong cultural
> inheritance of Protestantism; ie we have bird-watchers from all over
> Australia secretly agonising over the truth of their lists, with their own
> conscience as the only reference.
> 
> If ticking had been invented in Mediaeval times it would have been so much
> simpler. You would have kept a list and included on it whatever you liked,
> and then just before you died you would have sent it (together with a very
> large number of gold pieces) to the Pope, who would have told you that it
> was all right, and you could have died happy!
> 
> John Leonard
> 
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.... and think of the potential for "religious" artifacts:  "This was
HIS squeaker.."
-- 
"Beware of Half-truths... you may have the wrong half"

M. Scott O'Keeffe
Centre for Conservation Biology
University of Queensland

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