On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> Was I too subtle?
>

It was a bit too subtle to be sure you knew what I was talking about, but I
really liked the variation on the theme that I thought you were probably
doing.

And by the way, you were, I hope you realize, essentially suggesting that
coconuts are migratory (or at least that one particular one was).  Extra
points for that, intentional or not.

mike

>
> In the movie, King Arthur and Patsy were asked where they got the coconut
> that Patsy was using to create the sound of horse's hooves. It was
> proposed that a swallow had carried the coconut to the Isle by gripping
> the husk with its claws. This, of course, is a silly idea.
>
> In your case, a bird which might have been a swallow was seen. Mike South
> asked whether it had traces of coconut husk on its claws.
>
> So if a bird, rather than a tropical seed, was found far from home with
> husk on its claws, then the obvious, equally silly idea, is that the
> swallow floated ashore on a coconut.
>
> Jeez.
>
> If you have to explain it . . .
>
> --
>
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
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>
>
> On 11/20/2009 1:35 PM David Beierl wrote:
>
>  At 02:20 PM 11/20/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>
>>> Are you suggesting that it drifted ashore on the back of a coconut?
>>>
>>
>> Not exactly.  If you watch a movie called Monty Python and the Holy
>> Grail or something close to it, you'll understand the reference.
>>
>> :)
>> d
>>
>>