[Sca-cooks] Okay, it's "Very Stupid Question" time...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 18, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Elise Fleming wrote:

> Adamantius wrote:
>
>> Of course, when my eldest brother was little, he went with my father
>> to the Prospect Park Zoo one Sunday in early November of  
>> approximately
>> 1949 (at the time they lived in Brooklyn). There was a large,  
>> reddish-
>> brown bird with a large, fanlike tail assembly. It was in a cage
>> marked, "Silver Pheasant. Habitat -- China".  (snip)
>
> Reminds me of the time my family was at a zoo where the cage's sign  
> read
> "American wolf".  Inside the cage was only a human male... My father
> thought this was hilarious.  (The man was cleaning the cage but  
> still...)


I'm sure that was just his job. But I suspect you oughtta have seen  
him on the dance floor for that full Tex Avery effect...

Those silk stockings with the seams up the back will give away your  
true wolf every time...

Adamantius




"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls,  
when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's  
bellies."
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