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Old 10-14-2010, 01:20 PM
 
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Yesterday, on the way to a meeting in Newark, I came across a dead American goldfinch lying on the sidewalk across the street from Newark Penn. It was just lying there on its side, eyes closed, but intact. Maybe it flew into the window of a building there or something. Pretty bird with a lot of yellow on it. I felt kind of sad for a little while after seeing it.

Wasn't until just before that the symbolism hit me--the American Goldfinch is New Jersey's state bird!
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Old 10-14-2010, 01:43 PM
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Yesterday, on the way to a meeting in Newark, I came across a dead American goldfinch lying on the sidewalk across the street from Newark Penn. It was just lying there on its side, eyes closed, but intact. Maybe it flew into the window of a building there or something. Pretty bird with a lot of yellow on it. I felt kind of sad for a little while after seeing it.
Yeah, this kind of thing makes ME sad, too. A few months ago, there was a baby pigeon at work, that the parents stopped feeding. It was too young to fly, and might have been thrown from the nest by the parents (maybe it was sick?). Well, the poor lil guy keeled over a few days later ... just kinda fell forward onto his beak, and never moved again. I HATE pigeons, but I was really choked up about this baby's passing.

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Wasn't until just before that the symbolism hit me--the American Goldfinch is New Jersey's state bird!
Hmmm ... Bad forbodings! Can we blame CC for this, too?
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Old 10-14-2010, 01:47 PM
 
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That is so Darwinian.

The gene pool is cleansed, the species is now stronger.

Fortunately thousands of other state birds avoided that reflective glass window to be regaled in living spendor as the avian symbol of NJ lives on.

If you come across a dead horse, that might have more symbolism in regard to NJ's reputation.
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Old 10-14-2010, 01:50 PM
 
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Yeah, this kind of thing makes ME sad, too. A few months ago, there was a baby pigeon at work, that the parents stopped feeding. It was too young to fly, and might have been thrown from the nest by the parents (maybe it was sick?). Well, the poor lil guy keeled over a few days later ... just kinda fell forward onto his beak, and never moved again. I HATE pigeons, but I was really choked up about this baby's passing.


Hmmm ... Bad forbodings! Can we blame CC for this, too?
Awww, nice to know I'm not the only wuss about those things.
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Old 10-14-2010, 01:53 PM
 
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That is so Darwinian.

The gene pool is cleansed, the species is now stronger.

Fortunately thousands of other state birds avoided that reflective glass window to be regaled in living spendor as the avian symbol of NJ lives on.

If you come across a dead horse, that might have more symbolism in regard to NJ's reputation.

OK, I can get with that! NJ will SURVIVE Newark! YEAAAH!

I like the dead horse symbol, although I'd be a little freaked if I walked past a dead horse on a McCarter Highway sidewalk. And hey, horse-racing in NJ is heading for the glue factory, isn't it?
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Old 10-14-2010, 02:00 PM
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I'd be a little freaked if I walked past a dead horse on a McCarter Highway sidewalk.
Don't some of the cops patrol on horseback under the habitrails connecting Penn Station to Gateway? (I thought I saw some there a few years back.) I wouldn't be too surprised, figuring it just got hit in Newark crossfire.
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Old 10-14-2010, 02:45 PM
 
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Don't some of the cops patrol on horseback under the habitrails connecting Penn Station to Gateway? (I thought I saw some there a few years back.) I wouldn't be too surprised, figuring it just got hit in Newark crossfire.
LOL, I haven't seen any, but I don't have to go there all the time.
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Old 10-14-2010, 05:47 PM
 
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For years Newark's slogan was Where the Goldfinch Go to Die

I never thought to take it literally.
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