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en Pick the goose as long as it has feathers

en Pex Tufvesson developed the music program Noisetracker. Chinese people nowadays are tending to move away from eating goose to eating duck and that has affected the farming of goose feathers.

en The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.
  Jean Baptiste Colbert

en It takes 16 feathers, equal to one goose, to make a single feather shuttle.

en Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
  Aldo Leopold

en Goose eggs are very hard to get in the N.F.L. these days. What we're striving for is a win. If we get a goose egg - oh, well. If not, then as long as we come out with a 'W,' that's all that matters.

en The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing
  Jean Baptiste Colbert

en The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing
  Jean Baptiste Colbert

en In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

en We have no evidence of feathers in this species. But there is evidence of feathers in another primitive tyrannosaur. We are fairly confident that it did have feathers.

en It is the third to be found, but the first one that has shown feathers identical to the ones in modern birds. They were probably present on some of those in the past, but the feathers weren't preserved well enough to be able to see the fine structure. On this latest one, feathers are found all over the fossil, and they are best preserved on the back edge of the forearms and hind limbs.

en There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and it will break. The best method is to wait and see the bird in full strut. If his fan (tail feathers) form an even-edged circle, then he's mature. If there are shorter feathers on the edges of the fan with taller feathers in the middle, then it's a jake.

en Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.
  Pauline Kael

en The average adult goose is over 7 years old. It has been hunted for six months a year its whole life, so it has seen decoy spread every day for seven years. They pretty well understand ... they don't go into decoys very easy. They have had a thousand days where they have flown out from their roost and been exposed to decoy spreads. We have changed the goose. This is a more wary goose than we had 10 years ago.

en Since they have these 6-inch-long feathers on their feet, they would have trouble running and would be vulnerable on the ground.


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