"A wise bird does not foul its own nest," came the droll reply.
There is also a new manager, Lou Piniella, a wise bird who has won a World Series and still smells conspiracy every time he comes near an umpire.
My friend Alan Senauke, a Buddhist priest who works on ending global warming, among other issues, is fond of quoting an exchange from Zen Master Raven: Sayings and Doings of a Wise Bird, a fable by Robert Aitken Roshi.
The wise old birds of this toughest event never envisioned Farah entering the charts at number one, no matter what wonders he has achieved on the track at successive World Championships and Olympic Games.
Benn chortled: "Jack is a wise old bird.
A wise old bird, he instructs as often from mistakes as from accomplishments.
But quality-wise, Angry Birds Transformers was great: stompy robots (in disguise) shooting merry hell out of blocks and bots.
Bourgeois was a wise old bird, and she had a dirty mind, as her work demonstrated over and over again, since she began in the 1930s.
Hattersley, being a wise old bird, will also know that the MPs demands will probably ensure Wilson stays on as manager.
Her successor was more pragmatic, but by the time he appeared on the scene the damage inside the governing party had already been done.Sir Percy is too wise a bird to blame Mrs Thatcher alone.
Crowing Moment: When a wise, magical bird crying penitent tears comes to life in order to tell them the meaning of love.
