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Swan, swan-shaped boat to part ways
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| 3/18/08
| AP
Posted on 03/18/2008 11:44:44 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
BERLIN - A long love story is over at a German zoo: Petra the swan and her swan-shaped paddleboat are parting ways.
Petra, a black swan, became a minor celebrity in 2006 when she became so attached to the boat — which is shaped like an oversized white swan — that she refused to leave its side.
Officials in the western city of Muenster decided to let her stay with it over the winter, bringing both bird and boat into a city zoo.
However, Petra met a live swan this winter. Zoo director Joerg Adler says she and her new mate — a white swan — are building a nest together.
The boat is to be returned to its local owner on Thursday.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: blackswan; germany
Black swan 'Petra' welcomes her 'partner', a swan-shaped pedal boat at a small lake at the Zoo in Muenster, western Germany, in this Friday March 9, 2007 file photo. A long love story is over at a German zoo: Petra the swan and her swan-shaped paddleboat are parting ways. Petra, a black swan, became a minor celebrity in 2006 when she became so attached to the boat — which is shaped like an oversized white swan — that she refused to leave its side. Officials in the western city of Muenster decided to let her stay with it over the winter, bringing both bird and boat into a city zoo. However, Petra met a live swan this winter. Zoo director Joerg Adler says she and her new mate — a white swan — are building a nest together. The boat is to be returned to its local owner on Thursday. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein/file)
To: Froufrou
I’m guessing the swan just finally got tired of the “strong, silent type”...
To: Hegemony Cricket; what_not2007; nuke rocketeer; RockinRight; Hoodlum91; new cruelty; MarkMyWord; ...
“I’m guessing the swan just finally got tired of the “strong, silent type...”
That, or it was just plain too much wood...
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posted on
03/18/2008 11:55:51 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: Hegemony Cricket
She couldn’t handle him anyway...
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posted on
03/18/2008 11:56:43 AM PDT
by
sit-rep
To: Froufrou
Damn... you beat me to it!!
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posted on
03/18/2008 11:57:12 AM PDT
by
sit-rep
To: NormsRevenge
Oh, what a swan song. ~sigh~
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posted on
03/18/2008 11:58:18 AM PDT
by
hoe_cake
To: sit-rep
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posted on
03/18/2008 12:00:20 PM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: what_not2007; NormsRevenge; Hegemony Cricket; sitetest; MarkMyWord; RockinRight; Hoodlum91
They say it may start with an innocent gander, but then work up to the whole gaggle...
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posted on
03/18/2008 12:03:01 PM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: windcliff
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posted on
03/18/2008 12:06:34 PM PDT
by
stylecouncilor
(I'm a loner Dottie; a rebel.)
To: Hegemony Cricket
I guess this puts the paddleboat swan in a fowl mood.
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posted on
03/18/2008 12:07:08 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Position Wanted: Expd Rep voter looking for a party that is actually conservative.)
To: Bigg Red; Hegemony Cricket; sit-rep
Things have certainly taken a tern for the worse...
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posted on
03/18/2008 12:26:01 PM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: Froufrou
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posted on
03/18/2008 12:41:00 PM PDT
by
sit-rep
To: Froufrou
Trumpet jokes all day long, but wooden you agree the Swan and boat had a Grebe kind of love?
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posted on
03/18/2008 12:58:00 PM PDT
by
Dysart
To: Dysart
I wood. With a tear in my eye, I hope Paddleboat has hooked up by now with a dinghy...
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posted on
03/18/2008 1:02:48 PM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: NormsRevenge; Slings and Arrows
*snort*
Who the heck runs the FreePun ping list, anyway? Cute story, fun thread.
Good of Petra to spare the boat’s owner a public relations hassle on recovering his paddle boat for the tourist season.
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posted on
03/18/2008 1:11:30 PM PDT
by
Titan Magroyne
("Shorn, dumb and bleating is no way to go through life, son." Yeah, close enough.)
To: Froufrou
They’re just wingin’ it now....
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posted on
03/19/2008 1:30:15 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Position Wanted: Expd Rep voter looking for a party that is actually conservative.)
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