The bird

[Robin Hamilton]

> Paul johnson
> I have a clear memory of a phrase (which I may mangle) "Like fishes
> mount, like birdies perch, sit on this" accompanied by the finger
> gesture we've grown to love so well. And that would have been no later
> than 1950 when I left high school

All god's chikuns gott mittuns.

R.

(graduate of, "This was the bird that never sang, this was the fish that
never swam ..." et alia and so on.)

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