BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Cruiser
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 03:14 PM

I want you all to know I only opened this thread because I have a biological background. I thought this was a strictly scientific discussion regarding supernumary breast mammography/excision or a new evolutionary/genetic discovery countering the notion that "worthless as teats on a boar hog" was non-factual.

BTW, the number of teats on a boar hog has hereditary trait significance regarding the number and quality of teats his gilt piglets will have. (I had to add something scientific to make sure y'all believed the reason I opened this thread)

However, I should have known better to think this was a purely scientific discourse since Ms. Liz started it…

Liz, Liz, Liz you are something else young lady. You sure know how to get the laughs started.

Oh, and I most certainly quit reading the remainder of the posts as soon as I learned the true premise of the thread… (clears throat)

Thanks for the laughter.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: robomatic
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 02:56 PM

I just love this characteristic of English that allows us to apply the names of body parts to common objects.

Growing up in boring ol' 'New' England I would never have guessed you could call a chickadee a tit. What a missed opportuniy for myself and my young male friends.

I would like to take this opportunity to make sure that younger generations not suffer unconsciously as I did, and propose the following noun nominations:

nipple - beatle
wang   - hammer
hickey - hickey
hair   - grass
lips   - cheerios

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Rasener
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 02:06 PM

It must be a Z bra by now

or maybe a hammock

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 09:43 AM

Seems it's getting lots of support from somewhere....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 08:45 AM

This thread has grown larger than I expected it to...hard to keep abreast of it.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 08:25 AM

Here's something new... the blackbird was attempting to get at the seed feeder about 30 mins ago....   maybe the word is spreading that black sunflower seeds are the thing to eat!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 05:55 AM

My robin is flitting around the buddliea bush now.. I think he's after the late bugs that are enjoying what must surely soon be the last of the sunshine. My tits have emptied their feeder again... I'm sure they're all addicted to black sunflower seeds.. I may have to wean them onto nuts.

The coal tit was hopping about this morning. I hadn't seen him for a few days, but they have a couple of other feeding sites on the block so I know they're all OK. The cats don't seem at all interested in chasing the tits... perhaps they don't taste nice.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 05:32 AM

Flightless?

Not if the Lady makes the first move...

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 09:57 PM

The question he frames in all but words is

What to make of a diminished thing!

---from the poem "The Oven Bird" by Robert Frost












("cobra" = one for Siamese Twins...)

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 08:38 PM

But you are flightless I think.... ;-)

Anyway, here is the American robin one.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 07:10 PM

There's only one Australian Robin!

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 03:21 PM

Must be a few of those... I#m pretty sure the one I read about meeting that fate was an American robin.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 01:40 PM

There ya go matey.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 01:36 PM

Thought that was a Swallow Sapper?
G.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: sapper82
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 11:24 AM

Suprised no one has mentioned the sad story of (I think) the Red Rumped Tit that arrived on these shores and had the twitchers all a quiver for a short period until an Avian Assassin (aka the Sparrow Hawk) had it for dinner!

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: terrier
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 04:31 PM

Spotted Dick...lovely grub, but When I was very young I wouldn't eat it. My Gran had a Dalmation dog and I used to think that's what it was made from. (kids logic) :=}

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Rasener
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 12:11 PM

Spotted Dick is a smashing pudding, especially with Custard. I would help her.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: GUEST,jaze
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 12:03 PM

Liz, this reminds me of a conversation we had here once about Spotted Dick. I told a co-worker about Spotted Dick and she laughed and laughed and swore there couldn't be any such thing. Well... I'm ordering her some from a British Import place for Christmas. Can't wait to see her face when she opens it! Not sure I'll help her eat it, though :>)

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 11:45 AM

LOL..in fact ROFLOL Les

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Rasener
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 10:52 AM

Is that somebody who drinks Cider GS

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 06:07 PM

Woodpeckers eh?

The Fooles Troupe know about woodpeckers...

Fooles: Once upon The Steps,
or Flickering Fateful Feathery Fingers

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 06:04 PM

Never actually heard of a woodpecker tit though!

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 06:03 PM

I am sure you would know if you had a woodpecker as their "Hammering" with their beak into the wood is so loud you would surely hear it.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: GUEST,Observer
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 05:51 PM

I think I have a woodpecker working every morning on a tree outside my house, but I don't know for sure if it is a woodpecker, because all I ever see is the wood...

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Rowan
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 04:11 PM

Yesterday, at lunch in the courtyard, I had an adolescent magpie hop up on the seat and importune me, by carolling.

Lovely!

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Bee
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 08:05 AM

I love our Black-Capped Chickadees: 'chick-a-dee' they say all winter, but in early March they change their song to 'sweet weather'. That and the appearance of Common Mergansers on the lake are the first signs of spring here.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 04:22 AM

Your chickadees look like our long tailed tits.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Nov 06 - 11:52 PM

BTW - Liz, you will note that story - complete with picture, appears in the "Sport" pages of The Australian newspaper - not the "Nature" section...

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Nov 06 - 11:47 PM

As the Search site says...

"Didn't get the results you expected?"

http://search.ninemsn.com.au/results.aspx?srch=105&FORM=AS5&q=Australian+tits

I've been trying hard, but the best I can do so far is ...

Two years ago, Australian army helicopter pilots were suspended and an inquiry ordered after they were photographed flying a "show us your tits" banner during a sweep through the Surfers Paradise ...

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Ferrara
Date: 19 Nov 06 - 09:58 PM

For the Brits reading this I just put up pics of our Black Capped Chickadees here

and here,

and of Carolina Chickadees, the kind I get in my yard,
here

and here.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Ferrara
Date: 19 Nov 06 - 09:33 PM

Liz, never saw a pic of a coal tit before. Lovely. They aren't quite like our chickadees.

Here are some great photos of
coal tits.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Bee
Date: 19 Nov 06 - 08:39 PM

I've got flocks of monotone peeping nuthatches in the spruce trees, along with the chickadees, blue jays and four Canada jays. Cormorant in the lake the other day, and various small ducks.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: GUEST,...
Date: 19 Nov 06 - 06:11 PM

The zebra joke doesn't work in an English accent.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 07:43 PM

What is a zebra?
26 sizes larger than an "A" bra.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: mrdux
Date: 17 Nov 06 - 12:58 AM

our yard regularly hosts a foraging flock of bush tits. . . really.

michael

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Rowan
Date: 16 Nov 06 - 07:40 PM

Just as well there was no thrush among all those tits. And speaking of friendly arachnids, yesterday I found a small scorpion sitting in my kitchen, under the fridge door, catching a bit of cool.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Nov 06 - 07:38 PM

It wasn't a double A release was it?

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Nov 06 - 02:23 PM

Favourite cassette tape = Dolly Partons' Greatest Hits

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: My guru always said
Date: 16 Nov 06 - 02:05 PM

Microwave is good for melting lard prior to adding suet, peanuts, grain & sunflower hearts for bird cake. Can't imagine why these are so expensive in the shops, why does anyone buy them?

The bird-lawn is becoming very attractive, so much so that a juvenile peregrine falcon landed on top of the bird-table the other day. Seem an adult in the garden a few days ago too! Nature's way!

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Nick
Date: 16 Nov 06 - 12:39 PM

We used to live between Chipping Norton and Banbury and in winter used to have a whole set of tits except for bearded and crested ones - Blue/great/coal/long tailed tits would come to the bird table and we had willow and marsh in a wild bit at the back of the garden.

Lovely things.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Schantieman
Date: 16 Nov 06 - 11:04 AM

Tits like coconuts!

























and sparrows like breadcrumbs.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: terrier
Date: 16 Nov 06 - 10:33 AM

I meant to do my work today-
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree,
And a butterfly flitted across the field.
And all the leaves were calling me.

And the wind went sighing over the land
Tossing the grasses to and fro,
And a rainbow held out its shining hand-
So I said SOD WORK TODAY,
Im gonna sit here and count Tits,
Oh, I may as well open that can of beer....

Apologies to Richard LeGallienne

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Nov 06 - 02:04 AM

Abstitootly correct, Elmer! It was Scaramonga, the Man with the Golden Gun.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Rasener
Date: 15 Nov 06 - 09:17 AM

Thanks there Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 14 Nov 06 - 07:55 PM

Joe O., wasn't it the Man With the Golden Gun?

Elmer

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: skipy
Date: 14 Nov 06 - 06:35 PM

Villan, Faith Brown.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Nov 06 - 06:29 PM

If you have cats, be careful when positioning your fat ball... pussies like eating fat and those seeds have a dire effect on them... see this thread for details.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 14 Nov 06 - 06:27 PM

Don't often see a coal tit. Long tailed, great and especially blue - loads of them usualy - seem to be more common here. I haven't spotted many tits on the feeders yet.

My favourite sight lately has been a couple of Jays. I hear them in the woods often enough but I rarely see them. They have been picking up food from the drive and have got as close as about 6 feet from my bedroom window - don't think I've ever seen them that close before.

There has been a woodpecker hammering away in the wood but I've not seen it.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: bobad
Date: 14 Nov 06 - 06:17 PM

For georgiansilver:

Speedy Birdcake by Jane Asher

You need: Suitable container - coconut shell or clean yoghurt pot, a heatproof pan, string.

Ingredients: Beef suet or lard (you need one part of lard to two parts of any of the following. You can just use seeds but any of the other ingredients are suitable too), seeds, nuts, dried fruits - raisins, sultanas - finely chopped bacon rind.

Instructions:
1. Melt or soften the suet/lard in a pan.

2. Pour the other ingredients you are using into the suet and mix well.

3. Place the string into the container so that half of the string is in the container and half is outside. Hold the string in place and pour the mixture into the container over the string.

4. Leave the mixture to cool.

5. Once the suet has hardened, hang up your container by the string that you left hanging outside the pot or coconut.

Enjoy watching the birds eating the food. You may see tits, greenfinches and, if you are lucky, great spotted woodpeckers. Blue tits and great tits may perform acrobatics and hang upside down at times while they eat.

You may get to see great tits performing acrobatics while hanging upside down.

Subject: RE: BS: I've got 3 sorts of tits!
From: Emma B
Date: 14 Nov 06 - 06:07 PM

did someone mention "dumplings"?