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(BBC)   Mail deliveries being interrupted due to terrifying seagulls. Subby suggests throwing rocks at them; leave no tern unstoned   (news.bbc.co.uk) divider line 88
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2010-06-24 07:09:31 AM
C'mon - this headline HAS to get a green
 
2010-06-24 07:37:58 AM
Groan...

+1
 
2010-06-24 07:38:50 AM
Well played, subby
 
2010-06-24 07:55:53 AM
Booooo.... hisssssss.... yay!

+1
 
2010-06-24 08:13:35 AM
Awesome headline
 
2010-06-24 08:13:38 AM
/slow clap building to standing ovation
 
2010-06-24 08:14:58 AM
Monkeylint: /slow clap building to standing ovation

*clap* *clap* *clap*
 
2010-06-24 08:16:33 AM
NICE HEADLINE.

that's worthy of a T-shirt. Nicely Done.
 
2010-06-24 08:16:50 AM
blog.muchmusic.com
 
2010-06-24 08:16:58 AM
ok.
 
2010-06-24 08:17:57 AM
img.photobucket.com
 
2010-06-24 08:19:44 AM
Don't throw rocks, throw marijuana brownies
 
2010-06-24 08:19:57 AM
Alka Seltzer to the rescue.

/know it's a myth
//+1 Subby
 
2010-06-24 08:20:48 AM
+1, Subby. Love it.
 
2010-06-24 08:21:16 AM
3.bp.blogspot.com
 
2010-06-24 08:21:50 AM
That headline is so bad I love it.

Fine job sub
 
2010-06-24 08:22:36 AM
I voted it up, but only because you deserved it.
 
2010-06-24 08:22:57 AM
I am going to name my next three kids after that headline
 
2010-06-24 08:23:43 AM
The gulls are just shaking people down for bread.
I used to feed em bread, there'd be like 50 of em fighting over a slice of Wonder Bread...then I'd break out the pellet gun.
 
2010-06-24 08:24:09 AM
Nice headline.
 
2010-06-24 08:26:33 AM
Awesome, subby.

I liked Robertson Davies' version - he described a young boy sitting on a piano keyboard, noting that the child "left no tone unsterned."
 
2010-06-24 08:27:14 AM
Dump Chickens!
 
2010-06-24 08:28:34 AM
pricklysquirrel.files.wordpress.com
 
2010-06-24 08:28:46 AM
Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: Don't throw rocks, throw marijuana brownies

Get the *MINUTE* rice!
 
2010-06-24 08:32:55 AM
Time for the Alka-selzer and Ex-lax biscuits!
 
2010-06-24 08:33:17 AM
I love a good pun.
 
2010-06-24 08:34:18 AM
Lame. This was stolen from my leave no turn unstoned ski-lift anecdote.
 
2010-06-24 08:34:36 AM
For some reason, my 1st thought was of the King short story Survivor Type.
 
2010-06-24 08:40:59 AM
Herb? Was that you? Link (new window)
 
2010-06-24 08:41:18 AM
Subby is a funny, funny guy.

+1.
 
2010-06-24 08:43:20 AM
Rats with wings. They are the only thing worse than pigeons.

Firecrackers work well.
 
2010-06-24 08:43:46 AM
You magnificent bastard

/1UP
 
2010-06-24 08:44:42 AM
That was an old Quigmans comic
 
2010-06-24 08:45:17 AM
Another Government Employee: Rats with wings. They are the only thing worse than pigeons.

Firecrackers work well.


BRILLIANT!
/2 up.
 
2010-06-24 08:45:26 AM
+1 Subby. Well played.
 
2010-06-24 08:46:51 AM
...which was a rip of the old Ogden Nash quote
 
2010-06-24 08:48:41 AM
...but well placed by Subby - context people, context!
 
2010-06-24 08:50:30 AM
+1, subby.
 
2010-06-24 08:51:45 AM
HungryHungryHippo: ...which was a rip of the old Ogden Nash quote

finally someone recognized it as Ogden Nash, and not subby

/but still, good use of it
 
2010-06-24 08:52:13 AM
" A man who would make a pun, would not scruple to cut a purse."
Samuel Johnson or Pepys, I forget which.
 
2010-06-24 08:52:28 AM
brava
+1 internets for subby

great way to start a day
 
2010-06-24 08:52:31 AM
Just open a bag of cheetos and scatter it all over the road. Cold McDonalds french fries work too. Then get a Prius and run them all over. That should work. You can also feed them cigarette butts or "spill" a shipment of Alka Seltzer, although you have to beat the rain on that one.
 
2010-06-24 08:52:58 AM
No joke ...

Pissed-off seagulls can be very nasty. I was attacked by a seagull some years ago because I came too close to its chick which had fallen out of its nest. It flapped around and squawked and screeched and pecked at my head - it was going for my eyes, I just know it!
I have been very wary of the nasty beasts ever since.

/Cool story, Bro!
 
2010-06-24 08:53:58 AM
Problem seagulls can be culled, said the RSPB

Even in the UK they say cull when they mean kill.
 
2010-06-24 08:55:34 AM
Thai Mai Xhu: Another Government Employee: Rats with wings. They are the only thing worse than pigeons.

Firecrackers work well.

BRILLIANT!
/2 up.


I was on my Uncle's dock in Savannah with a couple of cousins. We had just come in from the beach and had stopped for bbq and fries. My cousin was a guy that liked to talk with his hands. So, he was making a point while holding a fry. Seagull came and plucked the thing right out of his hand.

Well, he reached into a bag by the chair and pulled out a 1 1/2" ladyfinger. He lit it and held it up like the fry. Damn bird took the bait and got about 10 feet away went it went off.

We didn't get bothered again for the rest of the night.

/CSB, I know.
 
2010-06-24 08:58:17 AM
What a stoned tern may look like:

www.naturfoto-cz.de

Nice one subby, +1
 
2010-06-24 09:07:36 AM
jso2897: " A man who would make a pun, would not scruple to cut a purse."
Samuel Johnson or Pepys, I forget which.


Huh. Thought that was Francis Bacon writing as William M. Thackeray pretending to be the ghost of Bill Shaskper appearing to Chas. Dickens as he wrote Malory's _La Mort d'Artur_

/ With Anne Rice
 
2010-06-24 09:10:44 AM
Pair of heavy gloves, protective eyewear, snatch them out of the sky, dash them against a solid opbject, toss their carcass to the remainder, vacate the premises whistling theme from "National Geographic."


/ how i roll
 
2010-06-24 09:11:19 AM
I don't know what an opbject is, but an object will do.
 
2010-06-24 09:11:33 AM
+!

Nice joke to wake up to!
 
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