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Category: Humor • Organisms • Politics
Posted on: February 18, 2006 11:33 AM, by PZ Myers
It's just a photo set of pictures of quail, but I noticed that my right forefinger reflexively twitched at the photo of the Republican lawyer in the middle of them. There may be a neurological explanation for Cheney's shotgun error, after all.
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I visited the site and it gave me the creeps when I came across the photo.
Posted by: Torris | February 18, 2006 2:10 PM
It's too bad he didn't go with Cheney...
Posted by: Kyle | February 18, 2006 2:35 PM
I can't blame Cheney for wanting to shoot big Republican donors. I feel that way sometimes, too. [figuratively, of course, if anybody's monitoring...]
Posted by: Unstable Isotope | February 18, 2006 2:43 PM
Thanks for the link, PZ.
I am glad to see that rows and rows of pictures of pretty birds lull people into dreamy complacency so the shock value of the jolt is even greater!
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February 18, 2006 3:04 PM
They don't look all that agressive.
Anyone know the average lifespan of quail?
Posted by: Anonymous | February 18, 2006 5:34 PM
You can pick up, hold and pet a pen-reared bobwhite quail - they are poultry, after all. They live about two years, I believe (that is Japanese quail - not sure if bobwhites may live a little longer).
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February 18, 2006 9:15 PM
According to the links Coturnix had, bobwhite quail rarely live more than one year in the wild, though they can live up to five years in ideal conditions.
Bobwhite quail - the holy grail of my stewardship plan in my ecotone in the Ozarks1
Posted by: pablo | February 19, 2006 6:51 AM
they are poultry, after all.
They are the pomegranates of poultry. Tasty, but a lot of work. Mind you, I do my quail hunting in the frozen foods section.
Posted by: Graculus | February 19, 2006 7:52 AM
You shouldna included former Senator and Vice President J. Danforth Quayle. You just pushed a button.
1. Nobody ever mentions that the "potatoe" spelling was what the kids were supposed to learn. Quayle was working off a set of index cards given him by the teachers. I wonder why "Murphy Brown" scriptwriters left that out?
2. As a US Senator from Indiana, Quayle was one of the few in Congress to regularly and consistantly support budgets for scientific research - specifically NIH, NSF, and NASA. I've heard him speak on those topics while I was doing research at the IU medical center campus in the late 70s/early 80s and he had his facts and figures down solid.
3. No, he wasn't a very glib off-the-cuff speaker. So What? Perhaps someone should re-read PZ's objections to the "Dodoes" movie. (Either here, or on Panda's Thumb, I can't recall of the top of my head.)
4. Now we have Sen. Evan Bayh - Mr. All-Things-To-All People, the embodiment of the curse, "be careful what you wish for...."
fusilier
James 2:24
Posted by: fusilier | February 19, 2006 8:51 AM
Isn't it scary that we are longing for the good old days when Dan Quaile was the Vice and the worst thing he did was misspell and look goofy? How much difference 14-15 years makes in our perception what is or is not an acceptable Vice President.
And yes, quail are a lot of work but, do they ever taste delicious!
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February 19, 2006 1:21 PM
One of these things is not like the other... that's right! You can't shoot a chicken.
Posted by: John Wilkins | February 19, 2006 9:29 PM
Small curiousity: What's the point of that feather dealie-m'bopper on the Gambel's and California quails' foreheads?
Posted by: BronzeDog | February 19, 2006 9:42 PM
I assume the feather dealie is a sexual dimorphism... y'know, to impress the ladies.
Posted by: YuppiTuna | February 20, 2006 7:54 AM
Thought it might have been something like that. Seems anything that looks useless at first glance ends up being about that.
Posted by: BronzeDog | February 20, 2006 5:29 PM