h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Breaking news!

Hunters have developed the first "Pointer Goose".

Nice photo!

OK! Just because I honk often! Don't mean to say I drink booze a lot

I'm pensive about waterfowl today. In addition to the duckling whose demise was due to my stupidity, I later hit a Canada Goose while I was driving along the highway. It smacked unto my windshield, though it didn't penetrate. I'd be surprised if it survived the incident.

Geese are fairly smart. They ca be trained as weeders on farms. I think that they can be counted on to eat grass in the corn rows.

years ago, me and some mates were going fishing, my car was the transport and I hit a partridge (well it sort of flew into the radiator ) I stopped and a mate said it's dead and that's in the pot tonight we carried on and about 10 mins later it was only knocked out and from the open glovebox where it was put, it started to fly about inside the car (we were on a motorway) pulled on hard-shoulder fastthe mate that said it was for the potcaught it and put it out of it's misery NOW it's for the pot he said

Well, you shouldn't grouse about a free meal.

a wing and a prayer, I never got a taste of it

Just don't quail if you see a big bird.

I've just sussed it out It's a picture of a Scottish bird A Mongoose

"hoots mon" etc

You are far too close to Scotland to get away with that joke.

curses Moriarty, foiled again

I think I know the goose in that picture.

"Pointer goose"

There's the dog! There's the dog! SHOOT! There's the dog! SHOOT! Aw you quazy wabbit!!

When I was in elementary school, I remember that the principal was called "Goosey."