Dutch Dominoe Sparrow Slaughter

Fluffy the Kat · 11-19-2005, 09:18 AM

By golly. What's this world coming to, when the foolish game of dominoes is SO important that a poor sparrow, who's only fault was to mess up 93 billion dominoes, needs be dispached, in such haste? A Dutch Thing? I ask you.

wolf · 11-19-2005, 10:06 AM

The sparrow had to go anyway. Filthy beasts. The dominoes were a convenient excuse.

11-19-2005, 10:35 AM

Huh? Sparrows? Dominoes? Have the Dutch entered into some Vietnam style conflict with the avian world? Pray do tell more.

Cyclefrance · 11-19-2005, 10:49 AM

Yep, got me - thought there was going to be some picture clue or something. 93 billion dominoes, you say? Never knew there were so many. Only ever seen them being played with in working men's clubs in the north of England. Strange game in any event. Never saw any samll birds creating havoc with them either....? (not that northerners would stand for such things, only pigeons are tolerated in numbers...)

jinx · 11-19-2005, 11:01 AM

It was 23,000 dominoes. But my question is, how is something with the word "common" in its name considered endangered?

Cyclefrance · 11-19-2005, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by jinx

It was 23,000 dominoes. But my question is, how is something with the word "common" in its name considered endangered?

when it/they becomes uncommon, but no one's thought to change the name to reflect that.

Apparently sparrows have been dying off in their thousands. We used to see them all over London and suburb gardens when I was a lad, but now you hardly see them at all. Theories for their disappearance range from use of pesticides to being subject to some rare bird illness to predators, etc, etc. But one thig is for certain - there are far, far fewer numbers now of the common sparrow than there used to be...

xoxoxoBruce · 11-20-2005, 11:22 AM

No problem......you can have ours. All of them.

11-20-2005, 11:41 AM

Awwww... Can't we keep just one or two, Bruce?

Hey! I just remembered! A lot of ours ARE English sparrows that some idiot brought over on the Mayflower or something. Maybe we should restore them to their rightful habitat. Who wants to volunteer to round them all up?

Tonchi · 11-21-2005, 12:30 AM

Fluffy needs to read the forum more often. I already told everybody about this incident in the Domino Day thread a week ago

11-19-2005, 09:18 AM	#1
Fluffy the Kat Provocateur Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Smarmy Southern Cal. (2651E. Wall St., #2) Signal Hill,CA 90755 Posts: 9	Dutch Dominoe Sparrow Slaughter By golly. What's this world coming to, when the foolish game of dominoes is SO important that a poor sparrow, who's only fault was to mess up 93 billion dominoes, needs be dispached, in such haste? A Dutch Thing? I ask you. __________________ Fluffy The Kat

11-19-2005, 10:06 AM	#2
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	The sparrow had to go anyway. Filthy beasts. The dominoes were a convenient excuse. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

11-19-2005, 10:49 AM	#4
Cyclefrance Pump my ride! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Deep countryside of Surrey , England Posts: 1,890	Yep, got me - thought there was going to be some picture clue or something. 93 billion dominoes, you say? Never knew there were so many. Only ever seen them being played with in working men's clubs in the north of England. Strange game in any event. Never saw any samll birds creating havoc with them either....? (not that northerners would stand for such things, only pigeons are tolerated in numbers...) __________________ Always sufficient hills - never sufficient gears

11-19-2005, 11:01 AM	#5
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	It was 23,000 dominoes. But my question is, how is something with the word "common" in its name considered endangered? __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

11-20-2005, 11:22 AM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	No problem......you can have ours. All of them. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-19-2005, 10:35 AM	#3
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	Huh? Sparrows? Dominoes? Have the Dutch entered into some Vietnam style conflict with the avian world? Pray do tell more.

11-20-2005, 11:41 AM	#8
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	Awwww... Can't we keep just one or two, Bruce? Hey! I just remembered! A lot of ours ARE English sparrows that some idiot brought over on the Mayflower or something. Maybe we should restore them to their rightful habitat. Who wants to volunteer to round them all up?

11-21-2005, 12:30 AM	#9
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	Fluffy needs to read the forum more often. I already told everybody about this incident in the Domino Day thread a week ago __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.

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