"Malcolm" wrote in message
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In article , BAC
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"Malcolm" wrote in message
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In article , Franz Heymann
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Kay wrote:

I used to play chess with an enthusiastic 'twitcher' who
nevertheless
dismissed a whole section of his interest as 'quackers' :-)

Not all twitchers are quackers?

Most are probably C of E

I would have thought them more likely to belong to the American sect,
the Shakers.....


Aren't the Shakers extinct?

Heading that way, apparently because they don't accept new members!

http://religiousmovements.lib.virgin...s/Shakers.html


Nothing like the RSPB, then! Thanks for that reference - fascinating. So
where does all this nearly new Shaker furniture come from? We should be told
....

thinks
How did we get here from cabbage whites?


By means of thread drift via the usual flirtation with pedantry/pedanticism,
perhaps?