http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311023,00.html
Councilman Simcha recently Felder proposed a bill outlawing the feeding of pigeons in NYC.
Sorry about the hijack.
I remember him fighting with Florrie, and both of them getting beat up. I think Chowder called me on this before, so in the name of fighting ignorance, I bring you the first Andy Capp comic, where he beat up Florrie without any apparent damage to himself. Apparently he mellowed out in his later years, stopped smoking and stopped getting in fights with Florrie, instead going to marriage counseling.
Indeed I did and I apologise.
I never thought Andy was a wife beater, my memories of him are of a pigeon fondling, drunken sot and chain smoking wastrel.
A man to be admired but in light of that link I revise my opinion
Well, my memories of the strip are that we often see a dustcloud floating in midair with Andy’s and Flo’s fists and feet sticking out, surrounded by cartoon pain-stars. Sometimes she started it, sometimes he did. But we always get the impression Flo gives as good as she gets or better. (It rarely works that way IRL, I’m sure, when a man and woman fall to blows.)
BrainGlutton, although I’m sure you’re right, you’d be surprised by one couple I knew back in their meth-binging days.
Yep, it’s all coming back to me now.
Bloody old age, damn!
As an aside, I know that Andys mate was “Chalkie” but what was Chalkies wife called?
Sure, there’s always a plus to inconsiderate behavior. On the part of the person who is being inconsiderate.
Rube
I just thank god that Ostriches cant fly.
Or cows…jebus!
Can you imagine being dumped on by a cow?
Well, I dunno about gulls, but a pigeon definitely came out second best in an encounter with a pelican.
Just to add, if you go to youtube and search “Seagull eating pigeon” it looks a lot more common than I thought…(not for the squeamish).
My sister and I went to Monterrey this summer and had a wonderful lunch out on a deck at a seafood restaurant overlooking the bay. Absolutely gorgeous setting, the best calamari I’ve ever eaten, even the lemonade was spectacular.
Then, as we were sitting enjoying the sun and the breeze and the wonderful day, a couple two tables over got up and left. Their butts had hardly left the seats before a bunch of pigeons descended on the table and started pecking at the leftovers. Meanwhile, two landed on the next empty table and walked all over the clean bread plates and silverware.
…hurk.
On our way out, we told a waitress about it, she looked disgusted and said they replace the plates whenever they see it happen, but they can’t get rid of the damn things, in part because people will sometimes feed them from the tables.
Yuk - you’d think they’d have learnt to not leave the clean plates out, if they’re a pigeon-target!
…That would be the logical thing to do, wouldn’t it?