• Vaughn was troubled: when you eat with your nose, and allergy season is in full swing, some mouthfuls are less appealing than others . . .

Allergies

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  • Randy hated this time of the year; the ticks were everywhere.  Unlike the cattle egrets who ate ticks, Randy didn't; in fact he didn't even have a good beak for getting rid of them . . .

Checking for Ticks

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  • Bill was offered big money to do toothpaste commercials--he declined. The last gators he saw on TV were in the Swamp People shows, and those gators went from sparkly teeth to  suitcases, boots,  and purses . . .

No Thanks

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  • Brian--a Kestrel, thank you very much--was a little miffed when he was called a sparrow hawk.  He never ate sparrows and didn't know anyone who did. They didn't look like they would taste good at all . . .

Sparrow Hawk

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  • Henry, reading 20th century history, stumbled onto Joseph McCarthy and his famous Red Baiter hunt for Communists in the 1950's.  He wondered what Joe would have thought of him . . .

Red Baiter

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  • The website for the South American dermatologist had promised Westley he would look just like Michael Jackson.  The results left him a little sad . . .

Sad

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