What condition were the birds in after being shot with that thing? Could they even be retrieved for eating or mounting, or where they just disintegrated?
I would like to see someone do a study of people who do these elaborate marriage proposals and see if their marriages are more/less likely to end in divorce or are longer/shorter, as compared to those who do simple traditional proposals.
Yuri wasn't the first man in space; he was just the first who returned to Earth alive. The Russians don't like to talk about all the Cosmonauts before him who died in space.
Sadtomato: There's no "bunch" of prudes here, just one.