bet you never thought about this before.
let's talk for a second about hummingbird tongues. they have them! i've seen one. (so can you.) i was in paul's office the other day pestering him, and i saw a hummingbird on the window feeder. i watched it stick out its tongue repeatedly and delve into the recesses in the feeder. paul couldn't see it, because my big old ass was in the way, but he saw one today.
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I dreamed once that I accidentally damaged a hummingbird. Somehow I caused its tongue to unroll into a flat pink sheet that could no longer retract into the beak.
Posted by: ranjit | June 12, 2003 10:56 PM
Hey! I swear I only pushed the POST button once! Honest! p.s. go read WHITE TEETH now.
Posted by: ranjit | June 12, 2003 10:57 PM
the coolest thing is the fishing-reel action of the tongue -- the way it curls around the inside of the skull. hummingbirds are hardcore. p.s. got it from the library today!
Posted by: julie | June 12, 2003 11:57 PM
Isn't the library one of the best things about not living in the City? Today I got the all-american cookie book and wayne harley brachman's retro desserts, just to thumb through them.
Posted by: terry | June 13, 2003 11:15 AM
our library is sadly ill-provisioned. there just aren't enough people in montpelier, i guess, to justify the purchase of every new book i'd like to read. of course, if scofflaws would pay their overdue fines, maybe they could afford more. (i owed $7.50.)
Posted by: julie | June 13, 2003 02:11 PM