Geese (was Holiday Greetings)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

La Gatta Macfarlane wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/5212>:

<< Those honkers at the University of Washington were certainly no
fifteen-pounders! More like the USS Nimitz coming ashore with blood in
its eye! There's something about the S-curve of the neck and the
downward slant of the wings that makes a sensible person want to get
out of the vicinity real fast. >> 

Kneasy replied in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/5213>:

<< Yeah, impressive, isn't it? Fluffing up like that. Strip off the
feathers, though and they shrink to an amazing degree. >>

So do most cats when washed.

<< They make damn good watch-dogs, and unlike Rottweilers it's
acceptable to eat them. Perfect. >>

My late mother raised me on anecdotes of the flock of geese at the
Temple of Juno Moneta fighting off the invading Gauls who had
conquered all the rest of Rome.