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2005-08-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Vultures near extinct, Parsi dead wait in vain

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Posted by phil_b 2005-08-28 07:33|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 For Sci Fi fans, the Parsi actress Persis Khambatta (Miss India 1965) played Lt Ilia, the bald headed navigator in the first Trek movie.

Posted by john 2005-08-28 07:54|| 2005-08-28 07:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Now that's an interesting euphamism:

"He's just a few vultures short of a funeral."

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-28 11:50|| 2005-08-28 11:50|| Front Page Top

#3 The majority of Iran used to be Zoroastrian, over a thousand years ago. This brings up the interesting question of what the Iranians would have done if it were still Zoroastrian. Imagine millions of vultures flying overhead. It'd be like a scene from the birds, but scarier.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-08-28 13:46|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-08-28 13:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Kipling was born in Bombay, and there were "towers of silence" near their house. Occasionally a vulture would drop a human hand or other body part in their garden.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-08-28 14:27|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-08-28 14:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Imagine millions of vultures flying overhead. It'd be like a scene from the birds, but scarier.

Gross

Posted by Walter Piegon 2005-08-28 14:41|| 2005-08-28 14:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Freddy Mercury was Zoroastrian.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-08-28 15:00|| 2005-08-28 15:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Gross indeed.

Posted by Peter Finch 2005-08-28 16:23|| 2005-08-28 16:23|| Front Page Top

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