<div>On 13/09/06, Christian Bjälevik <<a href="mailto:nafallo@magicalforest.se">nafallo@magicalforest.se</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> ons 2006-09-13 klockan 02:10 +0200 skrev Vincent Trouilliez: > * Birds of a Feather That's the correct one. Connecting to the discussions that makes the spec. The idea is the Feather and the spec is the Bird. </blockquote></div> There is a metaphor there, but this is not the correct one.  It's an english expression meaning people of the same ilk.  It derives from the expression "birds of a feather stick together" which means that similar types of people will congregate in the same places and support each other, often used by observers to explain or excuse the company someone keeps. HTH, Pete