Hey Francis! What have you done with all the piafs?

Australia will donate billions of them to Paris upon request!

The word you want is Musée . . .

You need to contact The Independent an' tell 'em they ain't no such word as "museum" in Froggy talk . . .

you can have my share! Want some starlings, too?

And bloody blackbirds?

As a matter of fact, there is a French word Muséum, though used under special conditions :

Muséum


I see half the people consider myself antiornithologist...

They are absolutely...wrong.

Some Australian birds would be welcome...preferably night birds..

Steve, you are welcome in Paris to check it by yourself, I'll guide you...

Francis..I don't think you are necessarily antiornothologist if you eat birds....

Possibly if you eat ORNITHOLOGISTS, you might be!

But...if I eat free range chicken (which I do) am I antifreerange chicken?

I think not.

<blows whistle> enough semantics. What's Francis done with the sparrows. Thats what I want to know.

Deb, you nitpicker, you!

Steve - I edit them...
???

Because I "edith piaf"...

groan

Noisy miner birds free to good home. Every Parisian home should have one!

set of steak knives with every order.

post and packing additional.

Sparrows, starlings, blackbirds - these are not Australian birds - well - they may now have Oz accents - but they aren't Oz Birds - you lot can have them all back!

Aaustralian birds are much more interesting, and colourful!

Is that why you pussycats love to eat them so, Margo?

yep - give interesting feather patterns around the mouth!

I don't care what you say, Francis--muséum is wretched franglais, and i refuse to surrender to it . . .

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We have vile starlings here, too . . . and they have driven out many native species. The red-wing blackbird is making a come back, and long survived by roosting in the shrubbery in highway interchanges. We got the starling because a pack of precious bloody idjits in New York at the end of the nineteenth century decided to introduce into North America every species of bird mentioned in Shakespeare (how's that for sound ecological judgment?). They failed in their first thirteen attempts. Nothing daunted, they tried again, and we've been blighted ever since.

Fortunately, we have been spared the introduction of the particularly vile breed of wabbit known to the Antipodes.

(However, it has been considered French for centuries)

I'm not asking for you to surrender as you know it's a typical French thing

But I do not agree with the fact that it would be franglais. At most it could be Frantin or Latrais...

Hmmmm..(Humming bird)..

I was fascinated with humming birds since childhood. We had grape arbors, and trumpet vines would climb the trunks of the grapes, and attracted the humming birds.

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You stand convicted in the court of public opinion Francis. More than forty percent of those responding consider you responsible for the drastic decrease in sparrow population. That's more than the number of Americans who think the Shrub is doing a good job.

Why do you hate sparrows, Francis?

Hitchcok's fault..

So, you're using Tippy Hedren Syndrome as a defense?