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As Head Six and Head Baltar walk down Times Square, a goggle-eye blue-barred pigeon flies onto Baltar's shoulder and perches there . . .
VARIANTS: DEATH BY PLOT-HOLE radii 2009
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The first, the blue-barred one, flew straight off and reached home.
Our Navy in the War Lawrence Perry 1914
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Band, which struck up a fine Pink March, and then the Army stepped out with the left foot first, and away went the conquerors down the streets of the Blue City, out of the blue-barred gateway and across the country toward the Fog Bank.
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He went on till he had dressed the interior of the skin with the soap preparation, and after filling certain parts with cotton-wool, and tying the wing-bones together, he turned it back, smoothed the plumage, and I saw that it was another of the short blue-barred kingfishers similar to that we had obtained before.
Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas George Manville Fenn 1870
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