Birds of a feather flock to irony

Yesterday, my office hosted a mandatory lunch meeting on Pandemic Preparedness: Bird Flu (H5N1). A portion of the presentation concerned being sure that the chicken, turkey or duck you eat is cooked at high enough temperature to eradicate the disease.

For lunch, we were served Fried Chicken.

It takes 7-10 days for symptoms to show if you've been exposed to the Bird Flu.

When a young co-worker brought a baby hummingbird into the office later that afternoon after finding it on the sidewalk too young to fly, many of us stood around it, ooing and ahing over how cute and colorful its tiny self was. The bird quietly sat in her hand, turning its head to the side and back, opening it's long and slender beak. Then the HR Manager said, I keep thinking it's looking at us saying Bird Flu, Bird Flu.

That turned out to be a room-clearer faster than hearing, Your bonus checks are on your desks.

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