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Title: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: TG on November 12, 2007, 04:20:56 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7091284.stm

H5 type, we are all doomed.

In Turkey's as well. Buy Goose!
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Grumpmeister on November 12, 2007, 04:55:37 PM
Given that Nick is supporting goose I'm half expecting to hear that an even more dangerous virus has decimated their population fairly soon.  noooo:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 12, 2007, 05:29:08 PM
Go Goose!
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: grumpyoldsoldier on November 12, 2007, 08:26:31 PM
Any truth in the rumour that goose quacks like duck quacks do not echo? I lie awake at night worrying about these things
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 12, 2007, 08:52:48 PM
That, I am assured, is a myth. ::)
Source: http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_info/duck/


Anyway geese "Honk" not "Quack".
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 12, 2007, 09:00:16 PM
PS ~ GOS If you read all that link I provided about Echoing Duck calls you'll soon be asleep. lol:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Shy Talk on November 12, 2007, 11:21:05 PM
That, I am assured, is a myth. ::)
Source: http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_info/duck/


Anyway geese "Honk" not "Quack".

Smell that bad do they ?? eyes:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Barman on November 13, 2007, 05:07:52 AM
Poor Darwin... thank goodness for turnips...  noooo:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Darwins Selection on November 13, 2007, 09:53:26 AM
Poor Darwin... thank goodness for turnips...  noooo:

As I have explained in an earlier post, we have elected not to involve ourselves with Meleagris gallopavo this year.

I accept that the short-term memory of many of the inmates regulars may have seen this information evaporate of course.

This latest scare merely confirms the choice was probably correct.
Long live Turnips (and Rape naturally). whistle:

Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Nick on November 13, 2007, 10:36:00 AM
We have been invited to a local Chinese family for Xmas lunch. Spring rolls with holly on prolly cry:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Barman on November 13, 2007, 11:02:13 AM
Poor Darwin... thank goodness for turnips...  noooo:

As I have explained in an earlier post, we have elected not to involve ourselves with Meleagris gallopavo this year.

I accept that the short-term memory of many of the inmates regulars may have seen this information evaporate of course.

This latest scare merely confirms the choice was probably correct.
Long live Turnips (and Rape naturally). whistle:


Not even one left?
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 13, 2007, 11:21:36 AM
Most farmers of my acquaintance would rather sit down to a decent beef joint at Christmas anyway.
We are yet undecided at Snoopy Towers but Goose it is for New Year's Day and that bird is already in the freezer.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Nick on November 13, 2007, 11:24:31 AM
I usually stuff them with prunes. It's a foible!
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 13, 2007, 11:25:27 AM
I usually stuff them with prunes. It's a foible!

We tend toward apricots ~ it avoids the shits.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Nick on November 13, 2007, 11:28:28 AM
You don't have to eat the prunes, you just stuff it with prunes. Oh, and an orange!

Goose fat = fab roasties

Not something you can say about turkeys, or even turnips.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 13, 2007, 11:31:26 AM
Turnip is animal fodder. End of debate. evil:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Nick on November 13, 2007, 11:39:58 AM
Quite so. I have never been keen on parships either. Or Swedes, whatever they are.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Darwins Selection on November 13, 2007, 11:44:07 AM
 tunble:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Nick on November 13, 2007, 11:46:39 AM
Turnip recipe


Boil 3 or 4 turnips till they are three parts cooked.
Take them up, drain them, cut them into slices, and fry them in hot fat till they are lightly browned and quite tender.
Drain them, and serve with fried or boiled cutlets.
Or peel them and cut them into very thin slices.
Let them lie in cold water for an hour, and drain them.
Dissolve a slice of butter in a stewpan, and in this dissolve 1 tablespoon of chopped onion for five minutes.
Put in the slices of turnip, sprinkle a little pepper and salt over, and let them steam till they are soft.
A spoonful or two of water may be added if there is any fear that they will burn.
Then throw them away and order a pizza
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 13, 2007, 12:07:08 PM
Turnip recipe


Boil 3 or 4 turnips till they are three parts cooked.
Take them up, drain them, cut them into slices, and fry them in hot fat till they are lightly browned and quite tender.
Drain them, and serve with fried or boiled cutlets.
Or peel them and cut them into very thin slices.
Let them lie in cold water for an hour, and drain them.
Dissolve a slice of butter in a stewpan, and in this dissolve 1 tablespoon of chopped onion for five minutes.
Put in the slices of turnip, sprinkle a little pepper and salt over, and let them steam till they are soft.
A spoonful or two of water may be added if there is any fear that they will burn.
Then throw them away and order a pizza

Exactly ~ an alternative is to throw them directly into a field full of sheep or cattle ~ saves all that preparation time.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Nick on November 13, 2007, 12:08:12 PM
And then eat the cow/sheep*
























* delete as appropriate. Add also shoes or other clothing
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Barman on November 13, 2007, 01:25:27 PM
tunble:
A wind farm now is it?
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: The Moan Ranger on November 13, 2007, 03:36:47 PM
It's the H5N1 strain.  scared2:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Barman on November 13, 2007, 03:38:01 PM
It's the H5N1 strain.  scared2:
scared2:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 13, 2007, 03:41:29 PM
WTF is going on? F&M in Surrey, Blue Tongue in East Anglia, H5N1 Bird Flu in Suffolk.
It'll be plagues of locusts and such next. We have offended the Gods!

GET RID OF NU LABOUR NOW  GET RID OF NU LABOUR NOW  GET RID OF NU LABOUR NOW  GET RID OF NU LABOUR NOW
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: The Moan Ranger on November 13, 2007, 03:46:00 PM
Why so sad? Some estimates say that if it turns into a pandemic, it could wipe our 25% of the population. Which is a good thing.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Barman on November 13, 2007, 03:49:47 PM
We have F & M too!
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Nick on November 13, 2007, 03:55:14 PM
What you and Landlady. Who foot and who mouth?
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Uncle Mort on November 13, 2007, 03:56:50 PM
Why so sad? Some estimates say that if it turns into a pandemic, it could wipe our 25% of the population. Which is a good thing.

Not if you're in the 25%  eeek:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Barman on November 13, 2007, 03:57:27 PM
What you and Landlady. Who foot and who mouth?
It seems I have just put my foot in my mouth…   Banghead
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Nick on November 13, 2007, 03:57:52 PM
Let's make sure we are in the 75% then Uncle!
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Uncle Mort on November 13, 2007, 03:59:22 PM
I've got a bit of a cold at the moment  scared2:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Barman on November 13, 2007, 04:01:22 PM
I've got a bit of a cold at the moment  scared2:
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Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Uncle Mort on November 13, 2007, 04:04:47 PM
Thanks but I'd prefer a humanist funeral.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Barman on November 13, 2007, 04:06:33 PM
Thanks but I'd prefer a humanist funeral.
I don't have an emoticon for that...  noooo:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 13, 2007, 04:10:38 PM
Allow Me
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Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: The Moan Ranger on November 13, 2007, 04:23:30 PM
Hilary Benn is about to make a statement about the outbreak.


We are all saved!   whistle: whistle: whistle:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Nick on November 13, 2007, 04:27:48 PM
He's not a patch on his old dad!
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Uncle Mort on November 13, 2007, 04:34:33 PM
very few stand comparison with good old Wedgie.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 13, 2007, 04:42:40 PM
I met Tony Benn's Agent once, when Benn was Member for Bristol.
He reckoned he had worked with him for twenty years and that Mr Benn was as mad as a fish.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: The Moan Ranger on November 13, 2007, 05:04:43 PM
Mad as a fish certainly, but he has always stuck to his principles and how many other politicians can you say that about, apart from Ian Paisley? Who is also mad as a fish.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 13, 2007, 05:11:20 PM
Oh it wasn't a complaint ~ merely an aside. Personally I have always found him to be plausible, a good speaker and ..... as mad as a fish.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: The Moan Ranger on November 13, 2007, 05:23:39 PM
As an aside, why are our aquatic friends the yardstick for being mad. I thought fish were good for the brain? Now, mad as a BSE riddled bovine would make sense...or a menstrual woman...or Nick...
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Nick on November 13, 2007, 05:47:47 PM
K?
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 13, 2007, 05:53:47 PM
As an aside, why are our aquatic friends the yardstick for being mad. I thought fish were good for the brain? Now, mad as a BSE riddled bovine would make sense...or a menstrual woman...or Nick...

Mad as a fish ~ I dunno why. I have often heard mad as a box of frogs used instead.
As for Nick ~ I know him and he is far from mad so that would be the last thing I'd say.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: The Moan Ranger on November 13, 2007, 07:35:27 PM
Ugly as a box of frogs. Mad as a bottle fish.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 13, 2007, 07:53:36 PM
Do you not feel that this is all a matter of:
(i) Where you grew up/went to school
(ii) What your parents used to say
(iii) Popular expressions used where you work/socialise
(iv) a sure sign of our mutual boredom.

I've always liked "Nutty as a fruit cake" but nobody seems to use that one anymore.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Misunderstood on November 13, 2007, 10:28:20 PM
Do you not feel that this is all a matter of:
(i) Where you grew up/went to school
(ii) What your parents used to say
(iii) Popular expressions used where you work/socialise
(iv) a sure sign of our mutual boredom.

I've always liked "Nutty as a fruit cake" but nobody seems to use that one anymore.

Mad as a hatter, ~ as a March hare. etc.

I really must protest.  These damned recipes are beginning to pop up willy-nilly all over the place and as a wilfully confirmed 'stranger to a kitchen' I am getting fed up with them.

If I have to put up with computers in the computer section and motors in the petrol-head shop (even though I have a diesel  evil: ) then these wretched recipes should go into a cooking slot which I can avoid with gusto and two veg.   
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Barman on November 14, 2007, 05:56:12 AM
Do you not feel that this is all a matter of:
(i) Where you grew up/went to school
(ii) What your parents used to say
(iii) Popular expressions used where you work/socialise
(iv) a sure sign of our mutual boredom.

I've always liked "Nutty as a fruit cake" but nobody seems to use that one anymore.

Mad as a hatter, ~ as a March hare. etc.

I really must protest.  These damned recipes are beginning to pop up willy-nilly all over the place and as a wilfully confirmed 'stranger to a kitchen' I am getting fed up with them.

If I have to put up with computers in the computer section and motors in the petrol-head shop (even though I have a diesel  evil: ) then these wretched recipes should go into a cooking slot which I can avoid with gusto and two veg.   
Ahem...

I suggested that...  whistle:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Darwins Selection on November 14, 2007, 08:41:12 AM
I've always liked "Nutty as a fruit cake" but nobody seems to use that one anymore.

I do.  redface:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 14, 2007, 08:42:11 AM
I've always liked "Nutty as a fruit cake" but nobody seems to use that one anymore.

I do.  redface:

Oh you sweet old fashioned thing you.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Darwins Selection on November 14, 2007, 08:47:01 AM
I've always liked "Nutty as a fruit cake" but nobody seems to use that one anymore.

I do.  redface:

Oh you sweet old fashioned thing you.

I also refer to "Marks and Sparks" and "The Home Service" on the "Wireless".

Keep our heritage alive I say. ;D
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 14, 2007, 08:53:28 AM
I've always liked "Nutty as a fruit cake" but nobody seems to use that one anymore.

I do.  redface:

Oh you sweet old fashioned thing you.

I also refer to "Marks and Sparks" and "The Home Service" on the "Wireless".

Keep our heritage alive I say. ;D

Standards must be maintained.
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: MargaRita on November 14, 2007, 04:15:54 PM


I also refer to "The Home Service" on the "Wireless".



Don't you mean "steam radio"?

Anyway, so happy you have got out of your turkeys. 
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Darwins Selection on November 14, 2007, 04:33:09 PM
I also refer to "The Home Service" on the "Wireless".


Don't you mean "steam radio"?

Anyway, so happy you have got out of your turkeys. 

Steam radio as you say. Dials marked not only with the wavelengths, but "Hilversum", "Luxembourg", "Droitwich" and other exotic places, but never "Berlin" in later years.

I am glad you are understanding and supportive about the Turkeys, I was planning to give you one at Christmas but I suppose you will have to make do with a simple Goose now.  cry:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: MargaRita on November 14, 2007, 04:44:06 PM


I was planning to give you one at Christmas but I suppose you will have to make do with a simple Goose now.  cry:

Whatever you can spare.


At my age, one is grateful for anything one can get for free.  eyes:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Barman on November 14, 2007, 04:48:09 PM
I am glad you are understanding and supportive about the Turkeys, I was planning to give you one at Christmas but I suppose you will have to make do with a simple Goose now.  cry:
Snigger...
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Darwins Selection on November 14, 2007, 04:48:36 PM


I was planning to give you one at Christmas but I suppose you will have to make do with a simple Goose now.  cry:

Whatever you can spare.


At my age, one is grateful for anything one can get for free.  eyes:

  happy100 whistle:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 14, 2007, 04:49:21 PM
Lurve raises its ugly head again  sick2:
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Barman on November 14, 2007, 04:50:18 PM
Lurve raises its ugly helmet again  sick2:
Snigger
Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Snoopy on November 14, 2007, 04:54:45 PM
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Title: Re: Yipee! Bird flu is back.
Post by: Darwins Selection on November 14, 2007, 04:59:54 PM
Lurve raises its ugly head again  sick2:

Do you mind?

How would you like it if I took the Mickey out of your every post?

Oh, I see. . . . . . .  redface: