13-04-2010, 10:10 PM
Paul Rigby Wrote:I received an email at work today from a reputable pest control company bearing the remarkable headline: "Is Gull Guano Impacting on Your Profits?" I have been unable to think of much else since.
Extraordinary.
Surreal genius. I suspect a Dadaist is earning a crust for some pretentiously named ad agency.
Or perhaps the reincarnation of William S Burroughs is moonlighting as an exterminator and copywriter for your pest control company.
Wiki advises that guano is derived from Quechua:
tupido:Quote:Guano (from the Quechua 'wanu', via Spanish) is the excrement (feces and urine) of seabirds, bats, and seals
Bat shit is positively tedious next to the alliterative gull guano...
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"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
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"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war