SC - I am So Ashamed! (long)

[KallipygosRed at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/26/00 1:42:41 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
olwentheodd at hotmail.com writes:

> Anybody know how far back slingshots go?  I thought that went back to BC.  
>  So why didn't they use those??  A lot easier than climbing a building.
>  Olwen
Well, according to the Baron, they were looking for masses of them at once, 
say 20 or 30 birds, and used weighted nets to get whole groups that could be 
killed and cooked for presentation to the table. I would suspect that taking 
down one at a time would be awful time consuming, not to mention throw off 
the cooking time if they brought in birds at different times for dressing and 
cooking.

Lars