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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 …

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  1. ravenviz Silver badge

    Cyprine alliteration

    Do all swans' names have to begin with an S?

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    1. Steve X
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      Swans

      Odette?

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Who

    Brad and Angelina? Are they two of the other swans?

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  3. TeeCee Gold badge

    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.

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  4. John_C
    IT Angle

    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?

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  5. Blake St. Claire
    FAIL

    Registered Trademark?

    > but it is difficult to say for sure". ®

    Or did you mean ©

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    1. Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)
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      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.)

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      1. Richard 120
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        innit?

        When did you go all saaf laandan?

        The only innit I expect to see here is an incorrect abbr. of initialisation.

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Pirate

    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.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      @Anonymous Coward 25th January 2010 13:30 GMT

      'Don´t even taste that good.'

      I don't know. Tastes a little like golden eagle.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        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?

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  7. Gordon is not a Moron
    Coat

    Can you call me a taxi?

    Does this count as a Black swan event where only White swans were involved?

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  8. Jon Double Nice
    Coat

    Perhaps they just got confused

    on account of their names all being so similar.

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  9. J-Wick
    Happy

    They all look the same to me, anyway.

    There, I said it.

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  10. ian 22
    Coat

    Swans?

    No more swanning about then?

    Mine's the one with down padding..

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  11. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Swansong

    Actually they later found out it was the last ever edition of Wife Swap.

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  12. Dr Patrick J R Harkin

    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?

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