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Cake in the nest?

posted 14 years ago by Tim-O-T
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Are we to believe the portion of the cake with the microfilm was conveniently blasted up into the birds nest?

[–] JesseOL 14 years ago

No, the birds worked together to carry it into their nest.

[–] Tim-O-T 14 years ago

That is more plausible.

[–] BlondeVixen 14 years ago

It seemed like an awfully big piece of cake for little birds to carry.

[–] houndtang75 14 years ago

Yeah I was wondering about that, lol. Kind of wonder how the cake even survived the explosion when the 'blind man' was blown to smithereens.

[–] bravehome 14 years ago

They were African swallows. They are also known to transport coconut shell husks across vast distances....

[–] micaofboca-836-322711 12 years ago

Cool information. And all from just watching 1944 British/American spy flics. You're obviously an Alistair Sim/Lawrence Olivier/Ray Milland et al. movie lover, too. But to share your knowledge of African birds from all that is such a good laugh. Post on, mon ami.

[–] bravehome 12 years ago

Glad you liked it.

See Monty Python and the Holy Grail for more nonmigratory insight on my comment :)

[–] herveywillets 12 years ago

Seriously, I don't think it was supposed to be the bird's nest. The piece of (bombproof?) cake got wedged in the brickwork after the blast, and the birds were just feeding on it.

[–] tseybert 10 years ago

Several swallows worked together, attaching the cake to a piece of creeper, which they used to carry it to the nest.

Janet! Donkeys!

[–] Kammurabi 12 years ago

Perhaps the non-blind man placed the cake there before being bombed and the time-traveling NSA drone was so precisely targeted that it sliced the cake in half destroying one half and leaving the half with the film to be later retrieved by a time-traveling operative under cover of being a detective from Scotland Yard.

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