Hi! Mick,

In a message to Howie Coombe you wrote:

 >>> Here's a thousand words worth...

 HC>> Is it?.

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 >>>               { }
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 >>>               | |
 >>>            .-.! !.-.
 >>>          .-!  ! !  !.-.
 >>>          ! !       !  ;
 >>>          \           ;
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 >>>            |       | Probably not what you had in mind...

 HC>> No it is not what i had in mind although it is what i have come
 HC>> to expect from this place.

 ML> I'd put on a latex glove before birding a poly :)
                                               ^^^^
Based on personal experience, I'd use leathers for handling one of them
thar cracker-cracking birds.  ;-)

Oh, you mean pollie!  They orta be pickled in specimen jars.  =:)

Cheers,
Paul.

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