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Angry bird.

Saturday, February 15th, 2014

A peacock was shot dead in northwest Houston Wednesday after a Harris County deputy was called to a residence near Kluge and Dale Rd. near Huffmeister.

A peacock? My grandmother had peacocks around when I was a child; I don’t remember them being particularly vicious.

While the deputy was speaking with a female resident, the peacock began to attack the resident. The deputy made the decision to shoot the colorful bird with a stun gun.

Stun guns: not just for high school students.

The peacock was seemingly unaffected by the jolts and the owner of the mad bird made the sad decision to dispatch the peaock with his own shotgun.

Joe Biden, call your office please.

A recent KHOU-TV story detailed a neighborhood not too far from this shooting incident, where peacocks have roamed free for decades.

I have no joke here, I just like saying “feral peacocks”.

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TMQ Watch: February 4, 2014.

Wednesday, February 5th, 2014

And thus we slog to the end of another NFL season, and the end of another TMQ season. Surprisingly (at least to us) TMQ avoids any discussion of unrealistic television shows, but there’s a lot of discussion of books. Speaking of which, did you know TMQ had a new book out?

After the jump, the last TMQ for the 2013 NFL season…

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It’s a bird! It’s a plane!

Monday, June 10th, 2013

Actually, it’s a big sort of bird-like object. And DARPA apparently used it as the basis for a model aircraft back in the mid-1980s.

northropi

(Quetzalcoatalus northropi, Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, Texas.)

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