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 banning birdseed at weddings




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From: bml@netcom.com (Brian Leibowitz)
Subject: rice at weddings
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 16:49:07 GMT

In the Sept. 26, 1994 San Fransisco Chronicle, Jon Carroll debunked the "rice thrown at weddings will get eaten by birds and sell up in their stomachs and kill them" legend nicely including references.

Later in the article he reprints a letter he received:

"... It is a fine letter, and I am only a little worried that it _may not_ be true.
...
" 'When our pastor's daughter was married in 1980, birdseed was used instead of rice. While the young couple was off on their honeymoon the groom devloped a severe pain in one ear. A doctor found the cause and cured the mysterious pain by removing a piece of SPROUTED BIRDSEED which had been nurtured in the warm moist greenhouse of the human ear.' " [shouting his, not mine.]

He continues with tongue firmly planted: "maybe true; maybe not. To be on the safe side, though, we should push for the pasage of a law banning the throwing of birdseed in public. Too extreme? You may not realize that birdseed also sprouts in the human stomach. Eventually you have millet growing right out of your throat. Act now!"

Brian "I have a watermellon growing in my navel"


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