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A Really, Really Ex-Parrot
gyrogeerloose writes "According to a National Geographic News story, what may be the fossilized wing bone of an ancient parrot has been dubbed by its discoverers 'The Danish Blue' in honor of the famous Dead Parrot Sketch. If the 54 million year old bone did in fact belong to a parrot, it would be 'the oldest and most northerly remains of a parrot ever discovered.' There is some dispute among paleontologists about whether the bone was indeed that of a parrot. If it turns out to be so, however, it never had a chance to pine for the fjords — they were not carved out until an ice age millions of years after the bird lived."
...until you dug it up, you insensitive clods!
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Er... Shouldn't that be the 'Norwegian Blue'? :o\
It's not dead, it's resting!
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I discovered the only reason that it appears to be 54 million years old in the first place was that God had NAILED it there.
1 (short ton / firkin) = 89.1432354 slugs / keg
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