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• MAGPIE: A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
  -- A. Bierce...
• Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• A bird in the hand might.
• Tarmin: "I have been accused of putting people to sleep with one too many stories, Captain.
  But this is the first time it's ever been suggested that I might be the cause of someone's coma....
• TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
  Incidentally, it is pretty good eating. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Since theological propositions are scientifically meaningless, those of us of pragmatic disposition simply won't buy such dubious merchandise.
  Maybe--remotely--there might be something in such promotions, as there might be something in the talking dogs and the stocks in Arabian tapioca mines that W C Fields once sold in his comedies, but we suspect that we recognize a con game in operation....
• A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. -- Ambrose Bierce