From ehrhardt@ivy.nenu.edu.cn Thu Apr 1 06:45:10 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id GAA29244 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 06:45:08 -0800 Received: from ivy.nenu.edu.cn (ivy.nenu.edu.cn [202.198.129.254]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with SMTP id GAA23391 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 06:44:49 -0800 Received: from [202.198.131.66] by ivy.nenu.edu.cn; (5.65/1.1.8.2/31Oct97-0127PM) id AA25941; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 22:45:03 +0800 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19990402020431.0076c4c4@ivy.nenu.edu.cn> X-Sender: ehrhardt@ivy.nenu.edu.cn X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 02:53:32 +1200 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Chris Ehrhardt Subject: Re: Fabrio and the Bird (apologies to WBY) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Are you sure this thread didn't *start* on 1st April? Chris. Ehrhardt At 03:54 AM 01-04-99 -0800, you wrote: >A news story said it was a goose. Doubtless all a modern-day Zeus might >manage {grin}. Jay Leno's comment, was, I believe (I heard it third-hand): >"It was inevitable that two bird-brains should meet." > >Jack Kolb >Dept. of English, UCLA >kolb@ucla.edu > >>Is there any possibility that the bird could have been other than a >>pigeon? Although this type seems likely for the context of an amusement >>park, it does not provide very interesting material for interpretation. >>What would Suetonius have made of this? :-) >>Lisa Au(an)g(e)r >> > > .