"Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Dan Goncharoff]

Isn't a challenge bringing a parrot to the library?
DanG



On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 10/11/2011 11:15 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>> > Pirate scholars maintain that there is no evidence that "walking the
>> > plank" was a popular diversion . . .
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>>"Pirate scholars" -- this brings to mind the image of a peg-legged,
>>eye-patched, parrot-bearing researcher walking to reference desk asking
>>"Arrh, where be the special collections, matey??"
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> I see a peg-legged, eye-patched parrot, parrots being especially
> intelligent and talking birds.
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> Joel
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