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Re: More puns in new vocab

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: More puns in new vocab
• Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:29:12 -0600
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>> vIlInHoD - a bird capable of mimicking speech

Jeremy Silver wrote:
: Exactly. "Pieces of Eight" is what iirc Long John Silver's (no relation ;) 
: parrot from Treasure Island says. The name of said parrot? 
:   [...]
: Captain Flint!

Aha, you've got it!  I didn't recognize the pun because I've never read
Treasure Island or seen the movie(s) thereof.

For those who suggested "Captain Villain"... nice try, but no cigar.



-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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