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Re: birding-aus OCD

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Subject: Re: birding-aus OCD
From: Laurence and Leanne Knight <>
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 18:46:30 +1000
David James wrote:
> 
> At 11:21 9/11/99 +1100, Brian Fleming and David Parker wrote:
> >> But at the end of the day what have we got out of it? An idea of the
> >> distribution of the species seen, sore eyes, a migrane or two, boosted
> egos and a
> >> self-induced tension of hope (hope that we're the winners) Good one!!
> >> What haven't we got out of it which we might have if we sat and watched a
> >> little longer.....
> 
> What a load of ignorant and self-righteous crap.
> 
> David James
> PO BOX 5225
> Townsville Mail Centre,
> Qld 4810, Australia


Talk about completely missing the point - after re-reading the original
item I think the above response fits the mould of the following onion
article ...  

http://www.theonion.com/onion3534/missing_the_point.html
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