BS: What species is Big Bird?

Subject: RE: BS: What species is Big Bird?
From: semi-submersible
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 05:38 PM

Oiseau jaune = Yellow bird, (up high in banana tree.)

This page says that name is used for the Yellow Warbler.

Subject: RE: BS: What species is Big Bird?
From: GUEST,Ducktor Orneetholeejust phD
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 08:23 PM

To sex a burd you must look closely inside the cloaca. The male sexual organs don't stick out like they do on some human males.

I advise a gloved hand.

"Everbodys heard about the burd"

Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow

What a dumb song to reach #4 in 1964.

Subject: RE: BS: What species is Big Bird?
From: Peace
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 08:31 PM

Someday it will be a folk classic.

Subject: RE: BS: What species is Big Bird?
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 12:36 AM

Hawk, when are you going to bring up something original? You should know by now that the answers to virtually all the important things in life are already answered here at Mudcat! Had you bothered to look you would have found this series of postings from 1998:

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Subject: RE: Wreck of the Old 97
From: Art Thieme
Date: 28-Dec-98 - 05:47 PM


Mr. Earl-----Many trains carried live canaries whenever they could. If a train had a difficult time getting up a grade the brakeman'd bang on the side of the car the birds were housed within with a 2 by 4. The birds would intantly take to the air and lighten the train enough for the spinning driving-wheels to take the whole thing over the hump!Honest.

Art


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Subject: RE: Wreck of the Old 97
From: Bill D
Date: 28-Dec-98 - 05:56 PM


but the cost of canaries was so great back then, that they achieved the same effect by feeding the brakeman/conductor on beans and cabbage and having him stand on the rear caboose platform!! The trick was in the timing...(It is a little known fact that listening to an old brakeman tell about this is how the idea for JATO (jet assisted take-off) for the Air Force came about!)


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Subject: RE: Wreck of the Old 97
From: catspaw49
Date: 28-Dec-98 - 06:29 PM


...or sometimes on tough grade,like Horseshoe Curve in Pa., if a helper engine was not available, they'd boost steam pressure by getting two guys like Bill & Art to exhale into the valve gear.


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Subject: RE: Wreck of the Old 97
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 28-Dec-98 - 07:45 PM


Of course, all these tecniques became obsolete when someone (Jay Gould's daughter?) realized that if you put larger wheels on the caboose, the train would always be goung downhill, and no coal at all was required.


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Subject: RE: Wreck of the Old 97
From: Benson
Date: 28-Dec-98 - 08:26 PM


Since the topic of canaries and gasses has arisen in this thread.... it came to mind.......I have been told that they used canaries in the coal mines to detect when the explosive gasses down deep in the mine had reached a level of danger.......the canary would die.....and the miner would get the hell out!!!

Do you suppose those canaries were freed from forced labor...??? Or was there just a run on canaries in 1903?


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Subject: RE: Wreck of the Old 97
From: catspaw49
Date: 28-Dec-98 - 10:50 PM


I suppose you could say the canaries were freed, but this particular group was traced in the Appalachian mountains for years following the wreck. Eventually forming into 7 groups, most had a hard time surviving in the wild. One surviving group was traced to a nesting site across the Cumberland Gap where they had migrated. Most of the local folk enjoyed having these unique birds in their hills. The main nesting area was on the Clinch River northwest of Knoxville. However, the mercury contaminating the river along with the proximity to Oak Ridge, where the birds were often seen feeding, caused mutations and eventually death to the almost the entire flock. The only known descendant of these birds can be seen today on Sesame Street at PBS.

Spaw

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As you can see, at Mudcat, some things never change.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What species is Big Bird?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 09:33 AM

Yeah, Spaw. Sure thing. That quote from Dick Greenhaus is one of the funniest pieces of reasoning I've ever read on this forum! :-)

"Of course, all these tecniques became obsolete when someone (Jay Gould's daughter?) realized that if you put larger wheels on the caboose, the train would always be goung downhill, and no coal at all was required."

Subject: RE: BS: What species is Big Bird?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 04:25 AM

But the biggest question should surely be...

Sage and onion or Pork meat stuffing? Just how juicy is he?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What species is Big Bird?
From: GUEST,freda
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 06:06 AM

remember Leda and the swan?

think Dolly Parton and an emu...

Subject: RE: BS: What species is Big Bird?
From: Cluin
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 05:38 PM

Speaking of pork... yet another attempt to fan a flagging career.

Subject: RE: BS: What species is Big Bird?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 05:42 PM

It figures.

Eat yer heart out, Janet Jackson!

Subject: RE: BS: What species is Big Bird?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 11:43 PM

That is so tacky.

Subject: RE: BS: What species is Big Bird?
From: Cluin
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 11:56 PM

And what the hell is Goofy?

Subject: RE: BS: What species is Big Bird?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Mar 06 - 12:01 AM

He's some sort of weird, humanized dog who talks and wears clothes. And Pluto is a regular dog in the same stories. Figure that out if you can.