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occuserpens Donating Member (836 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 11:28 PM
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Tower's ravens are kept indoors
Tower's ravens are kept indoors
The Tower of London has decided to keep its famous ravens indoors to protect them from bird flu.
Special aviaries have been created for the six birds within one of the towers of the fortress on the Thames.

Legend has it the Tower of London will collapse and the kingdom will fall if all the ravens leave.
The Tower ravens - named Branwen, Hugine, Munin, Gwyllum, Thor and Baldrick - are said to be getting used to their new surroundings.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 11:32 PM
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1. Seems like a good enough lead-in; Remember Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"
Remember Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"? Remember the huge black crows on the school's Monkey Bars? They show up one at a time, and soon the monkey bars are covered with huge, menacing, silent crows.

What if that happened with people?

What if that happened in front of every Federal Building in the land?

What if there were;

No signs.

No T-shirts with slogans.

No buttons.

No bullhorns.

No tamborines.

No Anarchists with rags on their faces and black flags.

No chants.

No talking.

No handouts.

No speakers.

Just thousands of people standing or sitting in perfect silence, perhaps eating lunch.

Everywhere.

At the same time.

April 14th, 2006. Good Friday, 3 PM, the hour Jesus died on the cross.

What if?

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occuserpens Donating Member (836 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 11:51 PM
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3. yupp :-(
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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 12:34 AM
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4. I hate to go cosmic . . .
. . . but I had a vision like that shortly after 9/11. People everywhere stopping everything. Waking up. Stopping and realizing where we are. Very powerful.
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phusion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 11:36 PM
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2. good!
Wouldn't want these guys to get sick: :)

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