Ooh! » overheard | Ooh! https://fernlim.com/bits { Snippets that tickle my fancy} Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:50:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 https://fernlim.com/bits/75/the-country-of-africa/ https://fernlim.com/bits/75/the-country-of-africa/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:27:00 +0000 Fern http://sfernl.tumblr.com/post/414539638

“If I had to pick the country I feel the most connection to, it would be Africa.”

Overheard in Starbucks

]]> https://fernlim.com/bits/75/the-country-of-africa/feed/ 0 Harpy Eagles, reactions! (At the San Diego Zoo.) https://fernlim.com/bits/78/san-diego-zoo-harpy-eagles/ https://fernlim.com/bits/78/san-diego-zoo-harpy-eagles/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:59:00 +0000 Fern http://sfernl.tumblr.com/post/397215796 “What IS that?! What ARE they?!”
—Bronze haired woman who should have taken lessons from a little boy on how to use her camera. (her words!)

“Wow! Wow! Mom! Look at them!”
—Little boy in a big red shirt, pointing and looking up while walking, unseeing, down the ramp. Don’t fall!

“It’s like they have Mardi Gras masks on.”
—Sprightly but hunched old lady in a pale pink shirt and a white golf hat

“HO-LY SHH…! Look at the size of them!!”
—Stubbly skinny old man with his oldish buddies upon spotting the eagles

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