Are you sure they’re dead?
They look like they’re hugging!!!! Maybe they got into a fight with each other (like a duel?) and pecked each other to death?
Hang on, no blood… They both had a heart attack?
Old age?
Suicide pact?
Scared to death by thunder?

How are they attached to each other, and how are they suspended from the tree?

looks like someone has a lot of free time writing a story up there…

Thankyou Trevor. You have answered alot here… and no, as of yet, they do not smell..

I don’t know who you are Jo, but good call. Good call. 🙂

In the above sentence, is it proper English to put a comma before and after your name, or just before or after?

🙂 Thanks in advance,

Luke

Nah, this way it looks like you are really popular and have lots of friends commenting on your blog 😀

This reminds me of last year – late semester 2 of 2004. We were rehearsing our French2 Presentation, in the Botanic Gardens, and my partners had just finished asking me how there happened to be a traffic jam caused by clowns on the way to the airport. I then spied something weird, pointed at it and yelled. My partners turned around, and once they spotted it, they were just as surprised. On the top of the highest pine tree, there was a witches hat. Bright orange against a pale blue sky, it shone as a crowing achievement of prankstership. How did it get there? you couldn’t climb up that tree, for the top was so thin that it would break. It couldn’t have been a crane, because that wouldn’t have gone unnoticed. Could it have been a large bird with a cheeky mind? We’ll never know. I gazed at this witches hat often over the next month or so, pointing it out to friends, and chuckling quietly to myself. The day came however, that I looked up at the fir tree and saw no orange crown. Like a strange fluoro whisper, it left as quickly as it had come – only to live on in the memories and hearts of the students of QUT Gardens Point.

-Fin-

P.S. Yes, this is true.

I saw pride and prejudice…good movie

Firstly Jo, if you’re going to correct other people’s English, don’t suddenly decide to start using words which are no longer part of the languge. Especially when you don’t know how to spell them. See Isaiah 24:8 in the KJV for the correct spelling of the word “endeth.”
Now look what you’ve gone and done! You’ve got me sucked into this extremely sad habbit to have when commenting on blogs. You just don’t correct people’s English anymore, in a world where the language consists of words such as “lol” and “cya.”

Sorry Geoff, for giving in to the temptation and being harsh. You can delete my comment if you like.

Anyway, I’m not satisfied with Trevor’s explanation on the demise of the birdie duo. First of all, to say that travelling faster than the speed of light can catch up with you, is like saying that all those years of defying gravity (by simply flying) had caught up with the magpies, and that they had suddenly become abnormally heavy and fallen out of the sky. Anyway, can anything catch up to you when you’re exceding the speed of light? Besides, I didn’t think those magpies looked too old. No, they looked quite young actually. So young, in fact, that they could have been playing a game of chicken, and crashed into each other.

But I’m surprised no one has seen the obvious. Think about it, and I’m sure you’ll only reach the same conclusion as I have.
Peter and Paul (the dickybirds) were trying to play a practical joke, and they decided to put a crane in a tree, but they forgot that it was halloween, and they met with some witches dressed in orange. Actually, they were really gender confused vampires who were playing fancy dress for the occasion.
And then of course, the orange, the purple lipstick, the green shoes, Peter’s wristwatch… The unfortunate coincidence was a recipie that called for the intervention from two aliens (who I will leave nameless), disguised as fashion police… That is, magpies. They swooped at the witches and tried to grab their clothes, beginning with their hats. The first few times they missed and their beaks just clicked closed (hasn’t this ever happened to you?). But one of them got lucky, and hey presto! The hat was in the tree. And then of course, the rest of the story explains itself and I don’t have to tell you what happened to the magpies after that! So I won’t bore you by spelling out the details.
Yes, there’s no denying it. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

do they smell?

From a glance at the photos, it’s pretty obvious what has happened here.
These two magpies were Agent Mag and Agent Gam of the Epsilon squadran of MESOL (Magpies Exceeding the Speed Of Light).
You may have never seen members of MESOL before but think about it; when something exceeds the speed of sound, the object passes, then you hear it pass.
So when things exceed light, they pass by then later you might see them (if you are quick).
Clearly in this case Agents Mag and Gam forgot to implements their deceleration procedure, and instantly stopped.
This meant that the years of travelling beyond the speed of light they had done, instantly caught up with them and they aged quickly beyond their natural years and died (see theories of relativity for more info).
This day truly is a sad loss for MESOL, and mourning will take place throughout the epsilon squadron.
All Magpies will wear black for atleast a week.

I certainly did not suggest such a vulgar and disgusting way to die Mr Eggins! I’m sure, however, that everyone who actually knows me would attest to that fact!

(And there you go, Jo! I used “however” correctly! Wooohooo! Hayley aces english!)

LOL…oh dear…looks like Hayley needs a little more tutoring… 🙂
The use of the word “however” only needs a comma either before the word or after, not both.
Also, you shouldn’t start a sentence with the word “and”, and “English” is a proper noun so therefore requires a capital “E”.
Here endth the lesson. 😀
See Geoff, it’s not only you that I pick on 😀

You’re welcome 🙂 I would have to say that you got it right by placing the comma after my name.
I have been told that commas are supposed to be used to separate two short sentences that you’ve melded together. I’m sure that you realise though, that the English language is full of contradictions!
Unfortunately, most people think that the proper way to use them is to put a comma whereever there is a natural pause in the reading of a sentence.
This however, is incorrect. 🙂

I hope this helps?!

maybe they both came down with a virus that acted very quickly and they both died because they were in the same family group and ate the same animal that had the virus to start with and so they both died together…maybe

….please don’t make fun of my grammar 😛
well i don’t mind if you do, i know it sucks 🙂

be aware, it could be bird flu…

Firstly Jo, if you’re going to correct other people’s English, don’t suddenly decide to start using words which are no longer part of the languge. Especially when you don’t know how to spell them. See Isaiah 24:8 in the KJV for the correct spelling of the word “endeth.”
Now look what you’ve gone and done! You’ve got me sucked into this extremely sad habbit to have when commenting on blogs. You just don’t correct people’s English anymore, in a world where the language consists of words such as “lol” and “cya.”

Sorry Geoff, for giving in to the temptation and being harsh. You can delete my comment if you like.

Anyway, I’m not satisfied with Trevor’s explanation on the demise of the birdie duo. First of all, to say that travelling faster than the speed of light can catch up with you, is like saying that all those years of defying gravity (by simply flying) had caught up with the magpies, and that they had suddenly become abnormally heavy and fallen out of the sky. Anyway, can anything catch up to you when you’re exceding the speed of light? Besides, I didn’t think those magpies looked too old. No, they looked quite young actually. So young, in fact, that they could have been playing a game of chicken, and crashed into each other.

But I’m surprised no one has seen the obvious. Think about it, and I’m sure you’ll only reach the same conclusion as I have.
Peter and Paul (the dickybirds) were trying to play a practical joke, and they decided to put a crane in a tree, but they forgot that it was halloween, and they met with some witches dressed in orange. Actually, they were really gender confused vampires who were playing fancy dress for the occasion.
And then of course, the orange, the purple lipstick, the green shoes, Peter’s wristwatch… The unfortunate coincidence was a recipie that called for the intervention from two aliens (who I will leave nameless), disguised as fashion police… That is, magpies. They swooped at the witches and tried to grab their clothes, beginning with their hats. The first few times they missed and their beaks just clicked closed (hasn’t this ever happened to you?). But one of them got lucky, and hey presto! The hat was in the tree. And then of course, the rest of the story explains itself and I don’t have to tell you what happened to the magpies after that! So I won’t bore you by spelling out the details.
Yes, there’s no denying it. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

Oh, someone’s a bit touchy…I think you needed to understand the background to my comment about Hayley’s English before “…being harsh.” and seeing as you didn’t, don’t blame me for getting you “…sucked into this extremely sad habbit[sic]…”

I’m not even going to bother with pointing out the plethora of mistakes in your post suffice to say that if you were in my senior English class, I’d be commenting on your lack of sentence structure, occasional spelling mistake, incorrect use of the comma and lack of paragraphs.
Thankfully though, this isn’t an English assignment and you’re not in my class 😀
Enjoy your day 😀

Yeah, I’m sorry about that. I can’t believe I wrote such a sad comment. I read it the day after and was thinking “What on earth is your problem, Mathieu!” and fantasised that Geoff would delete it.
And then it came up twice! I don’t know what I did wrong there. I was really ashamed. I must have accidentally eaten some behave-like-a-wet-blanket pills that day or something (that’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it!).
Knowing when I wrote it that my comment was badly written (I’m actually dyslexic), I probably rambled on purpose so you wouldn’t bother to list all my mistakes.
Anyway, thanks for responding. I feel much better now. Although I do still wish it wasn’t there.
By the way, how do you do the paragraphs? Hang on. I’ll try a html tag.

Is this a new paragraph?

Wouldn’t it be cool if all comment entering thingies had a spell check? Nah, not really, I just thought about it.

Oh, someone’s a bit touchy…I think you needed to understand the background to my comment about Hayley’s English before “…being harsh.” and seeing as you didn’t, don’t blame me for getting you “…sucked into this extremely sad habbit[sic]…”

I’m not even going to bother with pointing out the plethora of mistakes in your post suffice to say that if you were in my senior English class, I’d be commenting on your lack of sentence structure, occasional spelling mistake, incorrect use of the comma and lack of paragraphs.
Thankfully though, this isn’t an English assignment and you’re not in my class 😀
Enjoy your day 😀

Yeah, I’m sorry about that. I can’t believe I wrote such a sad comment. I read it the day after and was thinking “What on earth is your problem, Mathieu!” and fantasised that Geoff would delete it.
And then it came up twice! I don’t know what I did wrong there. I was really ashamed. I must have accidentally eaten some behave-like-a-wet-blanket pills that day or something (that’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it!).
Knowing when I wrote it that my comment was badly written (I’m actually dyslexic), I probably rambled on purpose so you wouldn’t bother to list all my mistakes.
Anyway, thanks for responding. I feel much better now. Although I do still wish it wasn’t there.
By the way, how do you do the paragraphs? Hang on. I’ll try a html tag.

Is this a new paragraph?

Wouldn’t it be cool if all comment entering thingies had a spell check? Nah, not really, I just thought about it.

They are still there!