Swan couple in surprise divorce
A Gloucestershire wildfowl sanctuary has witnessed a rare bust-up between a pair of Bewick's swans, who've apparently decided to go their separate ways in a surprise "divorce". The pair in question turned up at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust centre at Slimbridge on their annual migration from Arctic Russia, but each with a new …
Cyprine alliteration
Do all swans' names have to begin with an S?
Sad and avoidable too.
'.....the reason for the split could be "failure to breed"...'
If only they'd had an iPhone. There's an app for that you know.
All due to flawed labour policies
If only Cameron's cronies were in power and had their marriage-supporting policies in place this tragedy would never have happened.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the..... er..... cygnets?
Registered Trademark?
> but it is difficult to say for sure". ®
Or did you mean ©
Re: Registered Trademark?
It's the Reg tag, innit. It's on everything here.
Congratulations on being the first person I've ever seen to raise that non-issue. (Now I'm trying to work out how many comments I've moderated in two years. I wish I hadn't started on that one.)
innit?
When did you go all saaf laandan?
The only innit I expect to see here is an incorrect abbr. of initialisation.
swans...
Keep attacking my dinghy, hyperaggressive little buggers, could easily do without them.
Even one with the paddle wont put them off.
Don´t even taste that good.
Anon because of consumption of protected animals.
@Anonymous Coward 25th January 2010 13:30 GMT
'Don´t even taste that good.'
I don't know. Tastes a little like golden eagle.
Which reminds me...
Was at the zoo the other day with the sprog... they had a bunch of quail eggs in the "farm" section... only thing that went through my mind was "Mmmm.... might be a good appetizer for lunch". Is that wrong?
Can you call me a taxi?
Does this count as a Black swan event where only White swans were involved?
Perhaps they just got confused
on account of their names all being so similar.
Swans?
No more swanning about then?
Mine's the one with down padding..
Swansong
Actually they later found out it was the last ever edition of Wife Swap.
So is everything I know about swans wrong?
Can I eat them? Can I break their wings with one blow of my arm? Do they not even make those boxes of matches?
