| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 236.1 | More "how to tell" | VAXUUM::COMPTON | | Thu Aug 10 1989 21:33 | 22 |
| Additions:
When the salad you were going to make for dinner goes instead to the
birds.
When you get dishpan hands from washing more bird dishes every day than
people dishes.
When the first thing you do upon arrival at home is do a beak-count in
the bird room to make sure nobody got out while you were at work.
When the local feed store manager gives you strange looks every week
when you order another 50 lbs. of corn cob bedding.
When you are getting up an hour earlier than usual just to put fresh
water dishes in every cage.
When the list of names for the birds is longer than the list of all
known living relatives.
When you feel compelled to reply to a note entitled "how to tell too
many birds" !!
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| 236.2 | and there is more | SVCRUS::KROLL | | Fri Aug 11 1989 17:15 | 20 |
| When there are more birds looking out the windows than are looking
in.
When the center peice for your dineing table is a bird stand.
when you do a beak count before setting the table so that you can
eat in peace.
When you tell your boss to "Go home and get pooped on and you both
laugh."
When you have covers on your coutch.
When there are more birds than humans on the coutch watching TV.
When the most used machine in the house is the vacuume cleaner.
and worse yet it is used so much you do not put it away any more.
When you only get a couple of hand fulls of pop corn before it is
all gone.
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| 236.3 | Few more if yu can stand it | ANT::MPCMAIL | | Fri Aug 11 1989 17:47 | 23 |
| When the birds in the house are less than outisde the house but
make the noise of 2,000 birds in total.
when you have to put the birds outside to get peace and quiet and
the nosie drifts through the windows.
Your birds start talking to the outside birds because they are tired
of their house companions.
When you wake you wake up in the middle of the night o hear crunch
crunch and realize it's only the birds not your SO eating the
crunchiest item in the house. Or terminates eating the house around
you.
You wear slippers with a 1" sole to the shells won't bury themseelves
into the bottom of your feet.
When you get up in the middle of the night without waking your SO
the birds wakeup your SO by various means...
and so on and so forth
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| 236.4 | But wait, there's more..... | WARLRD::SIMPSON | | Thu Aug 17 1989 18:30 | 6 |
| When someone rings the doorbell and, before you can get to the
door, your birds ask "Someone there?"
When your favorite Amazon solks on the bottom of the cage, refusing
to eat, because you just got "another one."
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| 236.5 | | CSC32::M_ROBSON | News item from the Banzia Institute | Thu Aug 17 1989 22:46 | 2 |
| When your fridge is full of healthy stuff (fruits, veggies...) and none
of it is for you.
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| 236.6 | | WARLRD::SIMPSON | | Fri Aug 18 1989 14:50 | 6 |
| When you resent the fact that the vet bills are not covered
by the company's Medical Insurance plan.
When the amount you've spent on birds, cages, toys, etc is higher
than the amount in your savings account.
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| 236.7 | | ANT::MPCMAIL | | Fri Aug 18 1989 16:34 | 3 |
| When you add up the total amount of bird's paid for and realize
that it caould have been a down payment for a house or paid for
half a new car.
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| 236.8 | joys of a bird house hold | SVCRUS::KROLL | | Fri Aug 18 1989 20:50 | 12 |
| When you take a shower togeather and it is not with your spouse.
When you start checking your shues before putting them on for nesting
materials.
When you have to throw out a full box of kleenex because some one
has made a nest of it during your unplaned after noon nap.
When you find yourself buying the same toy for every one so no one
bird will fight over it.
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| 236.9 | | CSC32::GORTMAKER | whatsa Gort? | Wed Aug 23 1989 12:20 | 13 |
| When you discover that you're broke and the only(lots of) food in the
house is birdseed.
When your neighbor informs you that "your dog dosent bother me when he
barks but boy does that parrot make some noise early in the mornings"
When you plant half your garden in broccoli when you don't even like
broccoli just because the birds do.
When the local feed store offers you credit "because you're such a good
customer".
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| 236.10 | borkes & pionus | SVCRUS::KROLL | | Tue Sep 05 1989 22:08 | 12 |
| when your favorate cousin visits and you get jelous because all
the birds hang out on her and act like you do not exist.
when the line up on the window sill get too many that some one is
always falling off.
when your back starts feeling like an airport.
when food dishes get eaten before they can make it to the cage.
when your favorate cock goes to sleep on your knee and you do not
won't to disturb him.
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| 236.11 | too many bourkes? | SVCRUS::KROLL | | Wed Jan 03 1990 18:55 | 12 |
| When you start calling all the cocks "cock-a-poop" and the hens
"poop-squeek".
when you realize you had better remodel the kitchen soon beacouse
the hens have decided the cabinates make cozy nest and you just
spent 30 min looking for them.
when you start stuffing plastic bags into the holes in the walls
to discourage the nest building there also.
When you put in a large cage and they still won't to come out to
fly all over the room.
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| 236.12 | and there is more | SVCRUS::KROLL | | Tue Jan 23 1990 23:16 | 7 |
| when you do your taxes and they take off with the W-2 forms.
when you find your self fighting to keep the big birds out of the
little birds cages and find all the little ones in the big ones instead.
when you gain rank by having one bird on each sholder. makes you
a full bird.
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