What made thousands of birds fall from the sky?

[Al B. Sure!]

I think my movie-inspired joke was good

[MOBIUS]

I hadn't known that was among Mao's stupidities. I can't decide if that's more or less silly than expecting peasants with backyard furnaces to produce high-quality steel.

Especially considering the whole reason for it backfired spectacularly.

I blame Obama. Have we blamed Obama yet? Or Nick Clegg.

[N35t0r]

The fireworks theory sounds BS. Do birds usually die en masse from fireworks? I mean why isn't this a normal thing if that's all it was? It should be happening every New Years and 4th of July all across the US.

I did try to find out how much gunpowder was exploded annually through fireworks, but couldn't (I did only read wikipedia though... that thing is making us lazy)