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slope

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2 year old 'retired' female racing pigeon sells for £1.4m
« on: November 15, 2020, 10:58:52 pm »
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Kim

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Re: 2 year old 'retired' female racing pigeon sells for £1.4m
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2020, 11:26:40 pm »
It's an excellent name for an avian carrier, but the round-trip latency is still rubbish.
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Quote from: Torslanda on October 15, 2019, 08:00:37 pm
Careful, Kim. Your sarcasm's showing...

tonycollinet

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Re: 2 year old 'retired' female racing pigeon sells for £1.4m
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2020, 11:38:18 pm »
Ping = 3.6e+7ms
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Mr Larrington

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Re: 2 year old 'retired' female racing pigeon sells for £1.4m
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2020, 11:53:46 pm »
Disappointed to read that it isn’t called Speckled Kim.
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Wowbagger

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Re: 2 year old 'retired' female racing pigeon sells for £1.4m
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2020, 08:33:58 am »
That’s going to be an expensive pie.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: 2 year old 'retired' female racing pigeon sells for £1.4m
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2020, 01:33:40 pm »
Arthur Ransome would have chosen a more basic model.
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Legs

Re: 2 year old 'retired' female racing pigeon sells for £1.4m
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2020, 03:30:12 pm »
Disappointed that the pigeon-fancying Kurt Van De Wouwer is not the same Kurt Van De Wouwer who rode for Lotto in the 1990s...
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