Comments on: Bird Tools

By: sal

sal — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:18:51 +0000

Speaking of the crowbar – why has the crow’s name been given to a tool whose purpose is to jemmy things open and knock-unconscious those who might spy you doing so? Has our friend the Crow been unfairly tarred by association with this most brutish of tools?

By: Outa_Spaceman

Outa_Spaceman — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:03:30 +0000

Ah ha..!
Maybe you should put your ideas forward to a “Dragon’s Den” style committee, demonstrating your worthy ideas to several plutocrats who will then humiliate and exploit you and your proposed products for commercial gain…
I look forward to visiting Hubberman’s ironmongery dept. and selecting some of your sensible products to improve my hovel…

O.S.M.

By: G Riecke

G Riecke — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:16:39 +0000

I’m sure many a disappointed whooper has purchased the first volume of Proust, only to fling it in disgust at the nearest coot

By: Frank Key

Frank Key — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:18:48 +0000

Glyn : I would have thought the Swanndri’s name derived from Proust, rather than from single-’n'ed swans.

By: Glyn Webster

Glyn Webster — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:47:42 +0000

And there’s the Swanndri, a curious piece of rainwear that allows you to be soaked wet immediately, but ensures you stay warm afterwards.

By: R

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:01:40 +0000

I remember buying duck boards and Swan Vestas from our local ironmongery monger … before he was run down by a Robin Reliant on a pelican crossing.

By: G Riecke

G Riecke — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:26:07 +0000

Grebe locks have been available on the black market for a few months now. Indeed, I believe that the most recent Uzbekistani version of Cluedo contains a miniature, allowing the eager gamester to suspect Professor Khasimov in the goat pen with the grebe lock.