Date:         Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:40:31 -0500
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From:         Leo Weigant <weigant@USNA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Birds in Commercial?
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Joe,   My guess is they're either [computer generated] evidence of
poetic license or a fear of litigation [the American Corvid Society might file a suit for defamation of character] on the part of the sponsor's attorneys.

Such is the age we live in.

Leo Weigant

>>> mcdanieljr@EARTHLINK.NET 11/17/03 09:15AM >>>
There is a commercial running (product escapes me) with a group of large birds (corvids?) sitting on a wire (line?). They look sort of like magpies but when I went to my books, I didn't think so (as I remember -- the birds in the ad have a band of white across the chest instead of a white belly for magpies).

Anyone know what these birds are?  (As an aside, I find it strange -- even if they are magpies -- to use a bird that is very uncommon in the eastern US for an ad.)

Best,

Joe McDaniel

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