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Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Simon (---.westsussex.gov.uk)
Date: August 13, 2003 04:56PM

Google have modified their logo slightly, today, to proclaim that this is Alfred Hitchcock's birthday...

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Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: KT (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: August 13, 2003 04:57PM

Yes, I noticed that he had a deformed dodo on his head.

Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Tracy (---.hyperion.com)
Date: August 13, 2003 05:00PM

Now why would they put a deformed dodo on the man's head?

Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Simon (---.westsussex.gov.uk)
Date: August 13, 2003 05:06PM

Considering how heavy Alfred Hitchcock looked, it would surely have been much better (at least for the dodo :-) that way around than vice versa...

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Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cable.ubr06.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: August 13, 2003 08:23PM

Ah, so that's what the logo was all about...

Why the bird?



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Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Bluebottle (---.server.ntl.com)
Date: August 13, 2003 08:33PM

> Why the bird?

Because of his film 'The Birds'?

Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Ptolemy (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: August 13, 2003 08:34PM

Didn't Hitchcock direct "The Birds"?

Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cable.ubr06.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: August 13, 2003 08:42PM

Gosh, that's a clever reason. I must be more ill than I thought, not to realise that....



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Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Ptolemy (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: August 13, 2003 08:45PM

On the other hand, perhaps he directed the Man from Uncle and was attacked by Thrush?

Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Tracy (---.hyperion.com)
Date: August 13, 2003 08:47PM

Oh please, no bird puns. We've had fish puns, I don't want to hear bird puns.

Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Skiffle (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: August 13, 2003 09:06PM

That's not a dodo on his head - it's got wings. It's a seabird and anyone who believes KT when she says it is a dodo, is gullible

Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: August 13, 2003 09:08PM

In fairness to KT, she said it was a 'deformed' dodo. and having wings is pretty bloody deformed in my opinion. (Unless it's impersonating a packet of Always ultra....)



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Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Ptolemy (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: August 13, 2003 09:14PM

*GROOOOOOOOOOOOAN*

I tern away for one millet and Skiffle makes an aukful pun like that...l

Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: August 13, 2003 09:19PM

It's a starling effort by Skiffle, but I'm sure she's robin somebody else's lines. Anyway, anyone making those kind of jokes looks a right tit as we all know they're just looking for athention. It's knot funny, you know.

Or am I just sniping? Anyway, I've dunnet all before, so I'll swan off again...



PSD

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Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Tracy (---.hyperion.com)
Date: August 13, 2003 09:20PM

Oh pleeeeaaaassssseee stop!

Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Holly Daze (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: August 13, 2003 09:23PM

Does anyone else wonder if psd is spending a little too much time down the feminine hygiene aisle in Tescos. This isn't the first time he has exhibited a strange knowledge of the subject. Or is it too much daytime tv.

Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Ptolemy (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: August 13, 2003 09:25PM

It's all those tampon things he uses for footholds when he goes mountain climbing, Holly.

Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Holly Daze (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: August 13, 2003 09:28PM

well I suppose they would expand to fill the crevasse!

Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: August 13, 2003 09:28PM

Oh, stop your puffin...



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Re: Happy Birthday to Alfred...
Posted by: Holly Daze (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: August 13, 2003 10:03PM

they have very discreet little wings.

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