tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440938.post8487254501599472668..comments2024-03-28T07:03:01.419-04:00Comments on The Daily Apple: Apple #610: Carrier and Homing PigeonsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440938.post-70387246545481365672017-07-22T13:53:10.329-04:002017-07-22T13:53:10.329-04:00The Duffle Blog is a total spoof, don't you kn...The Duffle Blog is a total spoof, don't you know, like the Onion...<br />However, pigeons have saved more humans at one time than any other creature. Look up GI Joe, Willam of Orange, Mary of Exeter. They are also smarter than almost every mammal, only one of five animals that can recognize their own image, the only non-primate. They mate for life, the best of parents. The exterminator industry has spent $ millions telling people they spread diseases [which they don't, unless you eat their poop, but that is another issue] and have made $ billions. Pigeons are a lifetime of study - they un-F my head from the war when I sit in their loft with their gentle cooing. <br />I love them!82nd11Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10168578908570629808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440938.post-26467748697241622782012-11-14T03:27:48.473-05:002012-11-14T03:27:48.473-05:00P.S. In the week before China's elections, the...P.S. In the week before China's elections, they've pretty much shut down or blocked most of the internet. In an effort to control information still further, the Communist Party is "warning people to be on the look out for subversive ideas—not conveyed by e-mail or satellite television or text message, but by ping-pong balls that can be hurled from taxi windows, or strapped to carrier pigeons."<br /><br />Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/11/the-communist-party-goes-kodachrome.html#ixzz2CBRfnsZSthe apple ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03393142025560063997noreply@blogger.com