[obol] The Curmudgeon on Paul Sullivan

[Alan Contreras]

It's time.  It has to be done.  Someone in the Oregon birding community has
to do it.  Someone Fearless, Out In Front, Beyond Embarrassment.

Someone needs to check Paul Sullivan's toes for palmations.

I concede that it's a challenge. It will take guts, perfect timing, proper
optics (Hey, those Leupold 6x32 are perfect for this kind of thing-and they
don't even pay me anymore) and a half-case of Old Battlecow Fortified Ale
(eleven bottles for Paul and one to get the mud off the toes to be
absolutely sure).

O ye who aspire to call yourselves scientists, it's time to Get It Done.

Sure, while you're at it you should check his tertials.  I've always had
some doubt about them, quite frankly.  As for his primary extension, I'll
leave that to ... Well, she knows who she is.

Paul has been plucking the gee...that is, the shorebirds of our fantasies
long enough, spoiling the dreams of those of us who can tell a brant from a
bandsaw.  Into his place it is time that he is put by we.  Meaning thee.

I'll be off to compare scutellations with crevulations on tattler legs as
soon as the moon rises, for it is said by The Masters that on such nights,
and only such nights, the Gray-tailed glows bright pink.

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON
acontrer at mindspring.com