This American Life has a fantastic story out this week about “The Feather Heist“–a flute player broke into the British Museum and took millions of dollars worth of not pinin’, but passed on, no more, ceased to be, expired and gone to meet their makers, stiff, bereft of life, resting in peace, pushing up the daisies, metabolic processes stopped, off the twig, kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain, joined the choir invisible, ex-birds!
