Yeh, we're all flat squarkers too, Pat.
Bill
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 at 12:29 AM, Patrick McManus <
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> flat squark -does that go for the local poets too? P:-)
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> From: Bill Wootton
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 8:42 PM
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> Subject: Re: Cockatoos
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> Thanks, Doug. Our cockatoos lack the finesse of our magpies. Magpies here
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> > I like it, Bill, short & of course not so sweet.
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> > > Cacophany indeed, Patrick. And they don't let up. Not until after they
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> > Douglas Barbour
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> > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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> > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
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