RE: [semi-ot, SG] cutting edge technology and 25mm pigeons

Yeah.. that's the report I remember seeing.. I laughed at the KFC part.
Joe

>From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: RE: [semi-ot, SG] cutting edge technology and 25mm pigeons
>Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:50:58 +0000
>
> >G'day,
> >
> >> Aw, come on.. I KNOW we don't still use them for messaging on
> >> the boat!! I am an IT for crying out load..
> >
> >I suddenly got an image of a line of pigeons fluttering along behind
a 
>boat
> >holding a serious of trailing blue cables up off the ocean so they
don't 
>get
> >wet ;)
> >
> >> And it is a falacy that the meat isn't all chicken
> >> on cruise... it is just that you lose your taste
> >> buds after the first three months and everything tastes like
> >> it COULD be a pigeon!! :-)
> >
> >It just makes me shiver wondering what space navies will be saying
along
> >those lines in centuries to come ;)
> >
> >> (What the heck is a meat pigeon?)
> >
> >Very heavy set pigeon bred for meat not its ability to fly... which
in
> >extreme cases they now can't.
> >
> >> Actually, I have heard this from another source, so I am
> >> pretty sure it is valid, I just didn't give it any thought then.
> >
> >Well at least my imagination grabbing on to this hasn't made a
complete 
>fool
> >of me ;)
>
>There was a similar report in a newspaper over here a couple of weeks
back
>- only talking about chickens, not pigeons.Photo of coop crate strapped
to
>deck of a Bradley. Termed them KFC- Kuwaiti Field Chickens.....
>
>Jon (GZG)
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Beth
>
>
>

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