[Ads-l] the duck test

[James Landau]

At a food bank the server handing out frozen chickens told a customer who asked if this were a frozen chicken, "If it looks like a chicken and quacks like a chicken...".  A few people later a customer asked if this were turkey and the server replied, "If it looks like turkey and quacks like turkey, it's chicken."
Aside: across the aisle from the poultry section was a refrrgerator holding containers marked "HOT SALSA KEEP REFRIGERATED".
James Landau
jjjrlandau at netscape.com

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