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Message: <blockquote data-quote="salar53" data-source="post: 1341487" data-attributes="member: 25519">Well, firstly, it is only a joke!!Hmmm. Choupique said he had taken all the birds out for the day from the local mental institution - he was going to say "loony bin."Tom the Sceptic wouldn't accept the Ivorybill's assurance that he would pay for all the drink at the end of the night. Why should he? Birds don't talk.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />But Choupique was in charge of them all. The leader. So when Choupique claimed that he would pay the bill at the end of the night, Tom (rather foolishly as befits a sceptic<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />) believed him.You can only imagine Tom's surprise, then, when Choupique offers to pay him, not with a few thousand-dollar bills, but with a bin lid i.e. a useless trash item.Well they do say you become like the people you work with<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />And of course the Ivory-billed Woodpecker exists. The one in this joke was clearly driven mad by all the attention and photographs!</blockquote>

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