Gary Drescher wrote:

According to Reuters today, British scientists tracking homing pigeons with
GPS transmitters discovered that the pigeons don't return home by celestial
navigation. Instead, they follow roads. Closely.

Interesting. Pigeons were used during the two World Wars to send messages from the
continent to England. What method did they use to cross the channel?

George Patterson
Love, n.: A form of temporary insanity afflicting the young. It is curable
either by marriage or by removal of the afflicted from the circumstances
under which he incurred the condition. It is sometimes fatal, but more
often to the physician than to the patient.