RX: "They found a pigeon from WWI or WWII in a chimney... dead of course..."
Me: "Well I didn't think it had retired there. 'It was living in the chimney. Had gone quite mad.'"
RX: "It thought it was a bat! All black with soot and hanging upside down. Shell-shocked, most likely..."
Books. Bikes. Boomsticks.
“I only regret that I have but one face to palm for my country.”
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Overheard in the Office (Last Night)...
I was exclaiming over a photo from WWI which I did not recollect having seen before, of the Royal Pigeon Snafflers motorcycling away from the Royal Pigeon-Snaffling Lorry with wicker spanners full of pigeons. As one would imagine it would at Roseholme Cottage, this somehow led to a discussion of carrier pigeons...
'E's just restin'!
ReplyDelete(I know it's entirely gratuitous but I wanted to let you know that SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE reads you on a Sunday morning)
gvi
IIRC, they think it was from the D-Day landings and had a coded message on its leg. Last I knew the GCHQ was trying to decode it.
ReplyDeletehttp://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/17/15970511-unbreakable-wwii-carrier-pigeon-code-cracked-says-canadian-enthusiast
ReplyDeleteI know, it just popped up that way.
Ulises from CA
I believe you meant spanniers.
ReplyDeleteAnd you do know about the "pigeon spies" the fake German pigeons, right?
I think you might mean "panniers."
ReplyDelete"Spanners" is British for wrench.
I don't know what "spanniers" are, unless they are misspelled people from Spain.
They are a "play on words" which is a type of humor found among my people.
ReplyDeleteThis was a pretty hilarious post, and the comments were every bit as good. :)
ReplyDeleteA pune or play on words...
ReplyDeleteAlso known as a spanner to our cousins across the pond...
BGM
Good one!! :-)
ReplyDeleteVaguely simian, yes. Also somewhat reminiscent of Alley Oop in a toup'.
ReplyDeleteHe's not dead, he's just sleeping! (Sorry, I'm just jazzed over the biggest Second Coming since Brian's. A Python reunion? Be still, my heart.)
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