Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:51:30 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Frederick W. Fallon" Subject: Re: British short lived American Robin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Elliot Kirschbaum wrote: > > on 3/9/04 2:55 PM, Steve Huy at Gabboon@AOL.COM wrote: > > > "The robin's vivid red breast" > > > > huh???? > > Journalistic accuracy AKA an oxymoron. > > Elliot Kirschbaum > Baltimore, MD USA > When Lewis Caroll first published "Alice in Wonderland", he rejected the first printing because the illustrations were "too vivid". The publisher then sent them to America hoping to recoup some of the loss; but the American distributor rejected them because "the illustrations weren't vivid enough". - Fred Fallon Bowie, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================