Bob W wrote: > > You have to be a bit careful not to antagonise puffins, Mark. They're > tough little bastards and they don't put up with much nonsense - you > can tell by the way most of them talk out of the corner of their > beaks, without removing their cigar. > > I once heard about a kittiwake who wouldn't give Don Fraterculone a > share of the sand eel concessions on Rockall. Next morning he woke up > and there was a seahorse's head in his nest. > > And then this one time, the local seals were having a lot of trouble > with dolphins trying to muscle in on their territory, eating all the > fish, as if it isn't difficult enough already to make a living. So a > group of them, they go and speak to Don Fraterculone, they say > "Codfather - these dolphins, we want to be friends but who can be > friends when they're eating all the herring? Codfather, you've always > been good to us in the past, and we've always repaid your friendship - > can you help us?". > > The Don knocked the ash of the end of his cigar - genuine Cuban > seaweed - and leaned forward (but not so far forward he'd topple off > the cliff). "You're a good man Vitulina, a good man even though you > have no ears. You look after your wives, your children. So I want to > help you. I'm going to talk to this dolphin, this big fish. I'll make > him an otter he can't refuse"... > > Bobio Puzo
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