Message no. 1

From:	L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject:	[OT] Owls (was Re: Wendigos)
Date:	Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:54:55 EST

On Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:11:28 -0600 "Q (not from Star Trek)"
<Scott.E.Meyer@*******.EDU> writes:
>On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, L Canthros wrote:
>
>[snip unrelated stuff]
>
>> I agree. I wouldn't want to be caught somewhere in the dark with one
>> bearing down on me, but that's mostly 'cause I don't like large
>flapping
>> things making lots of noise attacking from the shadows of night:)
>>
>
>Ummm...hate to nitpick here, but owls don't make noise when they fly.
>Their
>wings are aerodynamically shaped so that they fly completely silently,
>that's
>what makes them such efficient hunters. t night, it's not what you
>can't see
>that's the most dangerous, it's what you can't hear.

Actually, I was thinking of the way that many owls "hoot", though they
don't do that when flying, I suppose. As for nitpicking, don't worry. My
friends do it to me all the time:)

>Q-the-nitpicker
>
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>"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
>stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
> -Albert Einstein
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