Has anyone lost an ostrich?
- 16 July 2011 12:17115048it was only a lighty hearted story, so i do not see a problem with any embellishment from a journalist.
- 16 July 2011 12:30115050really? even when the embellishment is incorrect?
- 16 July 2011 13:11115056this is what the father of one scaffolder would have chanced upon
not to be confused with an emu.
sometimes people confuse them, the best way of deciding which is which is to check to see whether one of them has rod hull's
hand up his back passage. - 16 July 2011 13:14115058Should you thumb
through local lore
it's history to plumb
you'll know much more
of what is yet to come
The tales of Dover, ostrich queen
come out of the mists of time
through the ages she's been seen
treading the foggy morning rime
and granting wishes to the keen
If you the albus-ostrich seek
to lay fortune at your hand
go forth low as do the meek
and take with you some sand
Pile the dust before the bird
stand back and make much din
she then will act-to-type absurd
and place her head therein
Humbly make your heartfelt plea
then Dove will gold aplenty spill
into that new-dredged from sea
and this-wise you'll get your fill
Beware, if you ever, without sand
meet face to face this emblem-queen
approach and you may be de-manned
and ever wish you'd never Dover seen.Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 16 July 2011 14:27115065Now I'm laughing at Bern's comment
- 16 July 2011 15:50115082I can't wait.....
..... For the next edition of the Dover Express.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson - 16 July 2011 15:52115083For..........?
- Brian Dixon
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16 July 2011 15:57115085trying to get the damm thing in the oven after stuffing it [sage and onion ].
- 16 July 2011 16:24115091We went on an early morning safari at Port Lympne a few years ago and saw a male ostrich doing a courtship display at a Land Rover that he fancied. That scaffolder did well to stay in his van
- 18 July 2011 11:06115322I reckon the whole thing was a stunt to publicise Kent's low-budget version of Primeval.
- 21 July 2011 11:55115950i have read the article in the express today and am a bit lost.
the suggestion is that the errant bird was not an ostrich but does not say what it was, unless i have missed it. - 21 July 2011 12:50115970A Rhea Howard.Audere est facere.
- 21 July 2011 12:53115973I have been looking round to see if any eggs were left behind,
- 21 July 2011 13:00115975silly me martin i thought that was the name of the bird.
wondering now whether is is of the genus gonoh or diaoh. - 21 July 2011 14:12115983Amen to that Howard
It seems the cause of the problem was a chihuahua called Fi-Fi, who strangely enough is often trying to get into my garden. - Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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21 July 2011 16:20116023it's of the xmass turkey veriaty its been geneticly modified to grow larger and faster.
