Re: NeoOffice - be honest now

In article <1ih5srl.ynzyjf16n7xphN%me9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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	   me9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "Bella Jones" writes:

> Andrew Stephenson <ames@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In article <1ih5c24.13293pf1bjaonsN%me9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >	     me9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "Bella Jones" writes:
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> > (How do I know it was a red legged partridge and not, say, some
> > Grey Partridge or pheasant doing imitations?  Playing the odds:
> > a RLP has been hanging about the house lately, including roosts
> > on my garage roof ridge in the afternoon, watching and calling.
> > They've been trouble ever since I chopped down that pear tree.)
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> This is all most odd!  Can you eat it?

The pear tree?  Nah, they tend to be a tad chewy and anyhow that
one was used for firewood.

The _A.rufa_?  Nah, it will be one of those painstakingly reared
by a local shoot-it-if-it-moves club then released into the wild
for a brief acquaintance with imagined freedom before it meets a
ghastly death.[*]  And therefore Property.  Anyhow I doubt I can
reach it on the garage roof before it flies off like a misfiring
squib.[**]  It will probably be put in my killfile.

[* : from gobbling old raisins I plan to dump on the lawn]
[** : partridges fly very oddly, in my limited experience]
-- 
Andrew Stephenson