"Each evening bird lover Tom stood in his
backyard, hooting
like an owl - and one night, an owl called back
to him. For a
year, the man and his feathered friend hooted
back and forth.
He even kept a log of the "conversation." Just as
he thought
he was on the verge of a breakthrough in
interspecies
communication, his wife had a chat with her next
door
neighbor.

"My husband spends his nights calling out to
owls," she said.

"That's odd," the neighbor replied. "So does my
husband."

They paused then started to laugh.