Goose/The Finger

[Dennis R. Preston]

I'm as ignorant as Mark. What bird? Why bird at all?

dInIs

>On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, carljweber wrote:
>
>#Goose/The Finger
>#
>#A little offer of twined thread synthesis. The "finger" is otherwise "the
>#bird," and otherwise f.u. Everybody knows what bird.
>
>Then I guess I'm nobody. I've never known what bird, if any,
>was referred to. You are evidently assuming that it's the
>goose, by association with the verb "to goose". Can you
>prove it? --- And am I the only one so ignorant?
>
>-- Mark A. Mandel

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