"Passenger pigeons traveled in massive assemblies, billions strong, that rained excrement to force people indoors. As a boy Muir saw a mob of birds sweep "thousands of acres perfectly clean of acorns in a few minutes." Pigeons destroyed farm fields so often that bishop of Quebec formally excommunicated the species in 1703."
I read this last night. When I finished wiping tears of laughter from my eyes, I read on to find that the bishop successfully solved this pestilence with his chanting and waving of hands.
Not.
Seriously though, that didn't really do anything.
I wonder if the good bishop was aware of his own stupidity.
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