Salting the tail
Dan Berleant
Postscript to the discussion about whether you can catch a bird
by putting salt on its tail: according to Simon, you actually
can, surprisingly enough.
Simple Simon met a pieman, Going to the fair:
Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Let me tastte your ware."
Says the pieman "Simple Simon, show me first your penny,"
Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Indeed I haven't any".
Simple Simon went a-fishing, for to catch a whale:
All the water he could find was in his mother's pail!
Simple Simon went to look if plums grew on a thistle:
He pricked his fingers very much, which made poor Simon whistle.
He went to catch a dicky bird, and thought he could not fail,
Because he had a little aalt, to put upon its tail.
He went for water with a sieve, but soon it ran all through:
And now poor Simple Simon, bids you all adieu.
John Wichers
>
>Postscript to the discussion about whether you can catch a bird
>by putting salt on its tail: according to Simon, you actually
>can, surprisingly enough.
[deleted]
>He went to catch a dicky bird, and thought he could not fail,
>Because he had a little aalt, to put upon its tail.
No, he said you could catch a bird if you had a little "aalt",
whatever that is. It sounds like an Alka-seltzer derivative, if
you ask me.
--John "good thing no one asked me" Wichers
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Larry Setlow
Speaking of birds and Alka-Seltzer, can anyone lend credence to the
story that if you toss an Alka-Seltzer up to a begging sea gull, it
will eat it, and [...] explode?
It's worked every time I've tried it.
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John Temples
>No, he said you could catch a bird if you had a little "aalt",
>whatever that is. It sounds like an Alka-seltzer derivative, if
>you ask me.
Speaking of birds and Alka-Seltzer, can anyone lend credence to the
story that if you toss an Alka-Seltzer up to a begging sea gull, it
will eat it, and the chemical reaction caused when it hits its stomach
will cause the sea gull to explode?
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Andrew Clayton
>
>Postscript to the discussion about whether you can catch a bird
>by putting salt on its tail: according to Simon, you actually
>can, surprisingly enough.
[deleted]
>He went to catch a dicky bird, and thought he could not fail,
>Because he had a little aalt, to put upon its tail.
aalt==salt.
I guess if the salt was propelled by a small enough shotgun, that
there would be some 'dicky bird' left.
Otherwise, you're off your rocker!
:-)
Dac
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Pete Ashdown
>>Postscript to the discussion about whether you can catch a bird
>>by putting salt on its tail: according to Simon, you actually
>>can, surprisingly enough.
>>He went to catch a dicky bird, and thought he could not fail,
>>Because he had a little aalt, to put upon its tail.
>aalt==salt.
>I guess if the salt was propelled by a small enough shotgun, that
>there would be some 'dicky bird' left.
>Otherwise, you're off your rocker!
I asked my mother about this when I was young and gullible. She explained that
if you are close enough to the bird to put salt on its tail and the bird is
dumb enough to let you do it, then you are obviously able to wrap your paws
around him as well.
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Pete Young
> Speaking of birds and Alka-Seltzer, can anyone lend credence to the
> story that if you toss an Alka-Seltzer up to a begging sea gull, it
> will eat it, and the chemical reaction caused when it hits its stomach
> will cause the sea gull to explode?
I may even be able to add something to this old groaner of an UL .
Several of my former colleagues in the engineering industry were
employed at Dounreay in Scotland, where the fast breeder reactor is.
Sodium is plentiful at Dounreay, since it forms the primary coolant for the
reactor. You all know what sodium does when it comes into contact with
water?
Anyway the claim is that when the shift workers got bored they would
feed sodium sandwiches to the gulls to cause them to explode.
ObUL: Large parts of the north of Scotland are covered in feathers
and seagull sh*te .
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British Telecom Research Labs, Martlesham Heath IPSWICH IP5 7RE UK
Dan Hartung
>by putting salt on its tail: according to Simon, you actually
>can, surprisingly enough.
>
>He went to catch a dicky bird, and thought he could not fail,
>Because he had a little aalt, to put upon its tail.
At last .... an authoritative reference!
Dan "Entering 'Who Killed Cock Robin' as Evidence in the Murder Trial" Hartung
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Mike Dedek
|> In article <21...@cs.utexas.edu> berl...@cs.utexas.edu (Dan Berleant) writes:
|> >
|> >He went to catch a dicky bird, and thought he could not fail,
|> >Because he had a little aalt, to put upon its tail.
|>
|> aalt==salt.
|>
What the FAQ is a 'dicky' bird?
-Mike 'dicky man' Dedek
TJ Wood WA3VQJ
>Speaking of birds and Alka-Seltzer, can anyone lend credence to the
>story that if you toss an Alka-Seltzer up to a begging sea gull, it
>will eat it, and the chemical reaction caused when it hits its stomach
>will cause the sea gull to explode?
Yes, It's ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
Terry "KABOOM" Wood
PS: But only in Pittsburgh
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bill nelson
de...@meaddata.com (Mike Dedek) / 7:10 am Jul 11, 1991 / writes:
|> >He went to catch a dicky bird, and thought he could not fail,
^^^^^
|> >Because he had a little aalt, to put upon its tail.
|>
|> aalt==salt.
|>
>What the FAQ is a 'dicky' bird?
>-Mike 'dicky man' Dedek
A 'dicky' or 'dickey' bird is any small bird.
Bill