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Default Squirrels in Britain

George Shirley > wrote in news:5vc9l.982$aO6.385
@bignews3.bellsouth.net:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> George Shirley wrote:
>>
>>> Pennyaline wrote:
>>>> modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <snipped the carnage>
>>>>
>>>>> Let us contemplate the image of "millions of squirrels
>>>>> rampaging throughout England," and shudder.
>>>> Let us contemplate the revised image of eating meat over there,
>>>> and shudder.

>>
>> See sig.
>>
>>> In return we should immediately commence eating all the aliens
>>> the Brits have gifted us with over the centuries: the red fox,
>>> the grackle, the starling, the English sparrow, and the myriad
>>> other immigrants that were brought in during colonial times to
>>> ensure a "feel of home."

>>
>> The gypsy moth. I don't know where it came from, but I'm perfectly
>> happy blaming the Brits for it.
>>
>>

> I think the Japanese beetle came here via Britain too.
>


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The beet goes on -Alan