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 This is a painting of a dodo made by Cornelis Saftleven in 1638. I've always thought that dodo pictures didn't look like real birds. They look cartoonish and just bizarre. This looks like a real animal that actually existed. I don't quite understand why this picture isn't the one that we're shown.

 So, I read a great saying about building houses today, "Build one for your enemy, then build one for your friend, and then build your own one".  I have no idea what language this comes from.

 Does anyone know which invader stole all their vowels?

 Someone summed up what DEI programs are about, and I think it bares repeating: DEI programs are about hiring qualified women and minorities rather than hiring lesser qualified white men.

 In the United States the holidays of Halloween and Thanksgiving are bulwarks against the invasion of Christmas. Without them, Christmas would invade October, just like it has in Germany.

Many animal that we thought of as pure vegetarians will eat meat when given the opportunity. When deer find bird's nests they will eat the nestlings, and tortoises will gleefully hunt birds. The birds get their turn though. It turns out that German Peacocks eat sausage, so the next time you're in Germany, and you visit Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island), please guard your sausage. If you don't, then it may not not be there when you turn around.

On a recent trip I visited with some old friends for a few days. Some of her family is a little suspect. At some point she told me story that describes how. Many years before she was visiting with some relatives, I think a pair of aunts. The three of them were sorting out the belongings of another recently deceased relative. At that particular moment they were sorting though old albums and pictures. Some are being tossed, and some are being kept. My friend notices one that's just been tossed onto the discard pile. She picks up the photo, and she can't believe what it is. It's a snapshot of Mahatma Gandhi. Not a clipping, not a repro, but family snapshot of Gandhi. She picks it out of the discard pile. Thinking that that her aunts didn't recognize it, she asks them, "Do you know who this is?" The aunts squint at it for a second, and then one replies, "That's the horrible little man that ruined India for us."