# Exploding Rice Birds  !!!Cecil!!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-rice-birds-cecil/1053>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [March 25, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-rice-birds-cecil/1053 "2000-03-25T02:20:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Quisling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47c2d/32.png) [@Quisling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quisling)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-rice-birds-cecil/1053/1 "2000-03-25T02:20:00Z")

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Cecil,

Whats up with your Exploding birds column. I went through a lot of painstaking work to bust out that experiment with the Uncle Ben’s Rice and the other types. Not asking a whole lot but ya gotta give me some credit with at least “Quisling” posted 🙂 I sent you the email on it like oh 3 maybe 4 yrs ago?? Anyways just thought I’d let you know 🙂 OH yeah and No birds were harmed during the making of this experiment 🙂

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-rice-birds-cecil/1053/2 "2000-03-25T02:25:00Z")

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[Should you not throw rice at weddings because birds swallow it and explode?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_081.html)

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[Change Your Password, Please](http://204.95.48.199/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getannounce&ForumNumber=3&Start=2451545.99&End=2451911&Session=2451598.1854) and don’t use HTML, as it has been disabled, but you can learn about superscripts [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000795.html)

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**Author:** ![Quisling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47c2d/32.png) [@Quisling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quisling)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-rice-birds-cecil/1053/3 "2000-03-25T02:41:00Z")

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What??? Dude those are exclamation marks man not HTML. Sorry for the confusion anyways though.

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-rice-birds-cecil/1053/4 "2000-03-29T06:23:00Z")

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Quisling, that’s his standard sig. It is unrelated to your post.

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**Author:** ![Quisling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47c2d/32.png) [@Quisling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quisling)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-rice-birds-cecil/1053/5 "2000-03-28T23:58:00Z")

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Well that explains a lot he was just putting the link up NOW I SEE 🙂 heh heh