The real facts about Snipe Hunting
Posted in Colorado University on March 11th, 2005 by gavb – Be the first to commentI got an email from Glory (a friend of mine who had the pleasure of coming to Sunderland – from Florida)… a good decision I’m sure you’ll agree.
Anyway, here are some facts about the afore-mentioned Snipe Hunting, verbatim, (apart from the ‘f’ word which I had to remove… my Nanna reads this!!)
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Just so you know ‘snipe’ hunting has many US cultural variations as follows:
1. In entomology snipes are a type of giant moth, and their wingspan is around 7 inches.
2. Hunting for snipes is often a way young children here tease their friends etc. At a slumber party once we went ‘snipe hunting’ which involved looking for supposed tiny hampsters but it is really a way for friends to push an unsuspecting victim into the bushes while looking for ‘snipes’.
3. Apparently they are small birds in Texas? [they do exist Glory, I saw one in a book!]
4. Basically a snipe is an American catch all term for that small cute animal when no one knows what the *hell* it is, it is sure to be a ‘snipe’.
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So there you go… Snipes for ya :)