> > > > What happens when a Monty Python fan has to much free time on his hands.
> > >
> > > I knew this was a bunch of dippity-do when I got down to the part where it gave latin names to bird species. If my memory serves me, birds don't have latin names. Trees, maybe. Primates maybe. Bugs, worms, and spiders maybe. But not birds. Is that correct?
> >
> > It's not correct. Pretty much anything that is alive has Latin names. Even stuff that used to be alive but isn't any more has Latin names.
> >
> > > I also wondered what an laden swallow would look like. Cars have trunks, trucks have beds, but swallows? Where would they carry anything?
> >
> > On their feet, of course. They would grip the coconuts with their claws.
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> I remember a picture of a swallow with a bug in it's beak. I suppose that's cargo space too.
> Howard

Swallows return every year to Capistrano and chase the squatters out of their nest. That would have to be one big swallow to carry a coconut. Perhaps its not a swallow but a gulp? hmmm.