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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Don't worry, soon enough they'll find a spokesman for that view as well. With the way things go, it'll also be someone who couldn't stand having hair and had it surgically removed.
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    That's an interesting thought and it reminds me of Athabaskan and Tlingit reactions to hearing that they were no longer allowed to call themselves eskimos, and worse yet, that they should henceforth be regarded as Inuit. I have a very vivid memory of my Athabaskan friend relaxing and talking...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Absolutely brilliant, and I wish they could, completely leaving all other opinions out of it!
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    You say that with complete indifference to the truth of the statement you declaim. Do some research and you'll see that there was no rhetoric whatsoever in my statement, impossible though it is for the willfully blind to swallow. There is no denying whatsoever that movements like the one in...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    You already know that this is the present day Cultural Revolution, brought to you by admirers of the man who made it a thing in the first place. And for the same reasons.
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Hey, all they're asking for is corrections addressing everything that's ever happened since the beginning of time, going all the way back to when Grog was insulted by his neighbors insistence on calling him Berng instead, in a mistaken attempt to honor his rabbit catching abilities. If 'they'...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Are you suggesting that no other cultures have also done so? I've always liked the name Denali, but as with most of us, we still use both names somewhat interchangeably. I like places named after people when those people were actually there, founding their own little town, or some-such, but am...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Yeah, not a fan of cliches and prefer simple instructions too!
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    That would be “Do no harm, and if you don’t know, don’t do.”
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Most cliches don’t work if you really think about them, but they sound clever despite being the opposite and cause more trouble than help.
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    You’re not incorrect there, but there is no harm done with this poll and at the very least it’s worth more than asking random people who seldom think of birds unless they happen to see an eagle what they think on the subject. Not to mention, this is a bird forum and of interest to not only...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    All your consistency in trying to shut down resistance to the actions in question is that you’re in favor and would like to shut down any dissent. The poll speaks for itself, no differently from any other.
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    It may very well be higher, since the numbers in this poll simply indicates 60% of respondents, and with concurrent threads running on the subject it's likely that there's also being reflected a bit of exhaustion over the topic at present here. No way to go back, but if this poll had been at the...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    LoL! I’m sure they’re doing it indiscreetly, and totally for the good of the ignorant masses.
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    What an ironically self-unaware statement to make. Let him do what he wants to, and if it’s worth nothing in the end, at least it was made with better intentions than water thrown on someone else’s fire.
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