Train Beasers ....

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MeB4:
> > I saw a special on PBS (not shouting ;-) that said that a group of Auks
> > were reexamined and found to actually be penguins.

You:
> If this is true, then we'll have to rewrite that riddle.

Me:
That was my point.  ;-)

You:
> But are you certain you saw/heard correctly?  

Me:
Pretty sure.  It is strange how these things just seem to stick in my head.
 It's like a huge lint trap for what my sister calls 'useless trivia'.

You:
Penguins are order
> Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae.  Auks and Puffins are order
> Charadriiformes, family Alcidae.  Penguins are thought to be closely
> related to seagulls and such (order Charadriiformes, family Laridae),
> and Auks are also considered to be closely related (same order,
> different family).

Me:
The special was trying real hard not to admit that much of this
classification was done in the most unscientific manner.  These birds were
classified largely on looks.

You:
> But so much is being rewritten WRT biological classifications, it's no
> wonder.  

Me:
It is amazing what kind of answers one gets when they quit assuming that
the other guys actually knows what he is talking about and looks for
himself.  

You:
At least I'm glad I don't base my faith on that rather movable
> ground :-)

Me:
:-D

You:
> So just what do you do for a living, Bro Tim?  I sit in front of a
> computer screen all day getting a greenish tan from the CRT glow.

Me:
Me and Bro. Brown have been squalking about it for a coupla days now.  I'm
a truck driver that delivers concrete block on one of those big boom trucks
for now.  Hope to be a full time minister very soon.  I am an associate
minster now and things are moving fast toward full papers.  I have been a
minster all along but now I will have the papers so I can marry people and
get into hospitals and the Lord said to shut the mouths of those who think
I am rebellious.  It won't stop them totally but (you know, the papers
don't make a minister argument. Can they have it both ways?) but to those
who look on from the outside, it will weaken their argument.  It isn't me
I'm tryin' to "push" on people anyway...

Luke 6:26
Timothy Litteral  
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