Query: "birds and bees"

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:54 PM -0500 2/15/06, Wilson Gray wrote:
>I'm surprised that there's any bird whatsoever with a penis. I reckon it
>depends upon how you define "penis." Has anyone ever found a bird with a
>vagina? IAC, if you've grown up in a house whose back porch faces a chicken
>yard or dated a woman whose student-assistant job was masturbating turkeys
>for the California ag school at UC Davis, there can be no doubt in your mind
>that birds fuck, irregardless of whether they have penises and vaginas.
>I'm surprised that there's any bird whatsoever with a penis. I reckon it
>depends upon how you define "penis."

I really miss Bill Clinton.

>Has anyone ever found a bird with a
>vagina?

Not me, but then I haven't been looking for one.  (I'm a mammal guy myself.)

>  IAC, if you've grown up in a house whose back porch faces a chicken
>yard or dated a woman whose student-assistant job was masturbating turkeys
>for the California ag school at UC Davis, there can be no doubt in your mind
>that birds fuck, irregardless of whether they have penises and vaginas.
>...

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