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Zimbabwe -- Cathy Buckle -- Eat the Quelia birds
Letters written by Cathy Buckle ^ | 2005-08-13 | Cathy Buckle

Posted on 08/14/2005 10:02:31 AM PDT by Clive

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To: PLMerite

Yeah, I'm sure they were all happy as clams around 1980.
Congratulations to them.


41 posted on 08/14/2005 2:46:58 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: cyborg

We are stretched pretty thin at the moment - Idealistically, we should. Realistically, we can't.


42 posted on 08/14/2005 2:48:21 PM PDT by patton ("Hard Drive Cemetary" - forthcoming best seller)
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To: patton

I agree.


43 posted on 08/14/2005 2:49:26 PM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: dynachrome

I thought that was Oscar Wilde's?


44 posted on 08/14/2005 2:57:56 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!
Nevermind!

I'm not so Swift!

45 posted on 08/14/2005 2:58:58 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Clive
The Herald newspaper tells us we should find ways of catching, killing and canning Quelea birds and then exporting them

is the Herald a NY times subsidiary?

46 posted on 08/14/2005 3:03:16 PM PDT by alrea
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To: cyborg

"You would have left America for Rhodesia??"

This would have been when Carter was President. It sucked that much.


47 posted on 08/14/2005 3:32:11 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: PLMerite

I would have been right behind you in that case. Used to be called Salisbury but now I believe it's Harare. A friend of mine lives there. If Kerry became prez, I may have given it some thought! LOL


48 posted on 08/14/2005 3:36:32 PM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: cyborg

"I would have been right behind you in that case."

Damn, if I'd known that I might have done it. Although I suspect you were probably a bit *young* then. :)


49 posted on 08/14/2005 4:43:20 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: PLMerite

LOL maybe seven years old :o)


50 posted on 08/14/2005 5:00:39 PM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I believe it is from " A Modest Proposal" Jonathon Swift's 'solution' to the Irish famine of the time.


51 posted on 08/14/2005 5:44:29 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: Clive

thanks. linked to my blog

http://makaipa.blogspot.com


52 posted on 08/14/2005 6:04:11 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: cyborg

"LOL maybe seven years old :o)"

Wow! That makes a guy feel old.

Congrats on the upcoming nuptials by the way!


53 posted on 08/15/2005 9:13:01 AM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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