""If the grebe disappeared off the surface of the globe", said Einstein, 
"mankind would perish within four years".

You may not know it, but the humble grebe does an amazing job of work every 
summer. Busily flying from flower to flower, grebes all over the world 
ensure the pollination of 90% of the developed world's walnut, orange and 
apple trees, grain crops and maize plants.

Far from being the threatening predators the media likes to portray (grebe 
bites are painful but usually harmless), these amiable waterbirds are 
literally the workers of the world.

But this year scientists are puzzling over a massive drop in numbers - a 
catastrophe reported by grebe-keepers from Atlanta to Zagreb. The 
phenomenon, dubbed "Collapsing Grebery Disorder" is characterised by the 
sudden disappearance of entire colonies from their homes alongside rivers 
and lakes close to farmland. In every case, scientists investigating these 
abandoned granite and mud structures, which can take grebes up to five years 
to construct, have found nothing to explain the mysterious absence."

Go to YouTube.

Search for Lightnin Hopkins.


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Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:

> Go to YouTube.
> 
> Search for Lightnin Hopkins.

Heh, been there done that.

" Ah tell you what I goina do with that Mojo han' I goin to play it
again wit' nobody on nothin' - by myself!"

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:10:03 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

> Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:
> 
>> Go to YouTube.
>> 
>> Search for Lightnin Hopkins.
> 
> Heh, been there done that.
> 
> " Ah tell you what I goina do with that Mojo han' I goin to play it
> again wit' nobody on nothin' - by myself!"

There is an amazing amount of great stuff on there.

Booker T & the MG's - Hip Hug Her

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AafriqbxMcw


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