A Conversation for Around the Day in 80 Worlds: A Scavenger Foiled
Not the ubiquitous image-collecting tentacles, anything but that!
KB Started conversation Jul 19, 2010
Cheers, guys.
For some reason, this reminded me of a pigeon's take on that anti-pigeon netting you see all over cities these days:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52205837@N06/4806693004/
"Hey! They're giving us hammocks now!"
Not the ubiquitous image-collecting tentacles, anything but that!
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jul 19, 2010
Another observant photographer.
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cactuscafe Posted Jul 20, 2010
hah! ... that is one cool pigeon photo! ... .. I need to make my life with this pigeon .. well .. I would .. if I was a pigeon .. a rock-pigeon to be precise .. which is different to a dove ... although I think they might be related ...
I find pigeons more approachable than doves ... although I have never in fact approached a dove eye to eye ... I think I am a bit shy of talking to doves because they represent peace ... and I might feel that ....even despite my heart's desire ....I can't live up to such high standards ... and that I am somehow a bit scruffy and urban and feral with shiny purple and green feathers and I peck a lot when agitated or itchy ....
Someone I once knew used to call me .. I wonder why.
I've always had this feeling that pigeons know a lot more than one might expect on first appearances .... and this photo proves it ...
I think this pigeon posting might be somewhat irrelevant ... and now I might in fact just ease out before that birdie camera eye with those ubiquitous (good word .. what does it mean?) image-collecting tentacles follows me through the grey and green and purple haze of pigeons in flight....
PS .. hey Eds ... yet another fine edition of 
Not the ubiquitous image-collecting tentacles, anything but that!
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jul 20, 2010
Back in the mid-70s...in a bus full of foreign students and German students...circling the square (how mathematical) in Wuerzburg...lots of pigeons wheeling...
My partially bilingual German friend turns to me and asks, in German:
'How do you say 'Friedenstaube' in English?'
I think, and laugh. 'The dove of peace.'
He replies thoughtfully, 'I thought the 'pigeon of peace' sounded wrong.'
They're all s to me. I love 'em. 
Not the ubiquitous image-collecting tentacles, anything but that!
KB Posted Jul 20, 2010
I think I prefer "pigeon of peace". It's got a kind of ring to it.
Not the ubiquitous image-collecting tentacles, anything but that!
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jul 20, 2010
It does, doesn't it? Maybe some university could adopt it as its mascot for the Peace Studies Department. 
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