In the 1980s an ostrich bubble blew again, this time in the States.
"He's like an ostrich with his head stuck in the sand, " McAuliffe said.
The Illustrated London News presented him replete with a tall, round Puritan hat, his flamboyance signalled by an ostrich feather.
Ian Usher, 44, originally from Darlington but now living in Australia, will also take the plunge dressed as an ostrich.
The concept basically states that one cannot act like an ostrich with one's head in the sand while illegal actions are taking place.
He reminded Hadley of a chattering bird, a large endearingly gawky bird like an ostrich, long-legged, long-necked, with a beaky face, quick-darting inquisitive eyes.
The most embarrassing part of the report is a cartoon of an ostrich, above it the caption 'councillors have buried their heads in the sand'.
Another of Carman's victims, David Mellor , was described as having "behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts".
But Stein's book is fascinating (who knew there was an ostrich-feather bubble?) as well as prescient (over-reliance on credit, neglecting to diversify your assets, the belief that a commodity will never, ever lose value--sounds vaguely familiar).
But when you use some of your famous devastating one-liners about people - for example, of David Mellor, "a man who buried his head in the sand like an ostrich thereby exposing his thinking parts" - was that something that personally felt, was it something that you buffed up beforehand?
Midbite into an ostrich burger at lunch one day, I watched the vanguard of an elephant herd emerge onto the lagoon shore, about 100 yards away, and each evening I trained my binoculars on the red lechwe gathered in the shallows, their russet coats burnished by the sun's slanting rays.
Ancient Rome was as likely to turn up in a painting of Queen Elizabeth as an American Indian cherub (with ostrich) in an engraving of London.
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And finally, the ostrich, an animal that still makes no sense to me.
The Italian-owned Restaurante Molinet in Las Palmas matches a striking red and black interior with an intrepid menu of ostrich with muscatel sauce, langoustines, and calamari with homemade pasta.
They have built an amazing company and for other retailers to simply whine and cry and complain is ostrich-like behavior.
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In fact, when we choose to be ostrich like in our relationship with our finances, hiding our heads in the sand, money exerts an even greater, and usually more negative, influence on us.
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Or book a table next door at one of Asian fusion star Susur Lee's twin establishments: SusUr (picture seven-course tasting menus eaten in a white room fitted with ostrich-skin banquettes), and right beside that, the brand-new Lee (with an equally dazzling, less costly menu).
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