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Look at the hen's face. Could be a 'caption this'
"hey there baby,you come round this neck of the woods often?
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...whew!... Lookada breast on dat wun...I'd gobble her right up..."hey there baby,you come round this neck of the woods often?
Bingo,the males puff up their chests and tail feathers,trying to outdo the other males to look bigger and thus a more suitable mate..
This may be old news but it is the first I'm learning of it. The book by Stephen Ambrose won over my heart, as did the Ken Burns documentary. I hope the mini series is forthcoming.
Birds must like me. Pepperbird, my African Grey Parrot, smartest girl (boy) in the world.. such a vocabulary!
Would sometimes look at me strange and start making alarming strange long drawn out nasal sounds. Strutting back and forth on the back of the couch puffed out, wings drooped to her feet and bopping head. "C'mon, Pep, stop that"
If I picked her up onto my arm, she would bounce the wings would just about drape and hang, put her back down..
It ended with her strange purring in my ear from behind me, and strange movement of head - and then she would regurgitate seeds on me.
I felt so used.
And eww.
Would sometimes look at me strange and start making alarming strange long drawn out nasal sounds. Strutting back and forth on the back of the couch puffed out, wings drooped to her feet and bopping head. "C'mon, Pep, stop that"
If I picked her up onto my arm, she would bounce the wings would just about drape and hang, put her back down..
It ended with her strange purring in my ear from behind me, and strange movement of head - and then she would regurgitate seeds on me.
I felt so used.
And eww.
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Ah, nottie - Pep (the girlie boy bird?) was in love with you. Pet birds of that intellect mate for life. You were his/her beloved. Where did she/he go?
Now I have tears. Pep, Pepino, PepperBIIIRD! (she would yell like superman)
passed away. She spoke Italian.
She's in a beautiful box, wrapped in silk, under the garden of my old house.
I did not know for sure how old she was. But I thought I would have to put her in my will. 85 years, they live. Given her vast vocabulary and antics, she must have lived long before she came to me.
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First time she spoke to me. Took a long while for her to get comfortable.
Walked by. She said in a deep man's voice, "What's up, Dude?"
Walked by. She said in a deep man's voice, "What's up, Dude?"
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That's sweet nottie! I know it's sad, but precious too - a bird LOVED you . Like you are Snow White or some fairy tale princess. I bird watch everyone and just nearly faint with happiness if the cardinals stay in the yard while I'm outside. Peps loved you. Man's voice - that's funny.
I'm not going to all crazy and get into it, but last thing.
African Greys speak like humans. Not in a 'parrot voice' She had my exact voice, her previous owners voices, man or woman. My dogs would obey when she said something.
And never taught her a thing. Just respond to general conversation at the right time. Or the phone ringing. Picked up things from commercials.
Said this somewhere before, but whenever someone new would see her, ohh a parrot! Does it talk?
To embarrass me. And I know she did it on purpose.
From a commercial she would proclaim in a mans voice after they asked.
"and and and ... and ... and AND... THAT'S WHY I DOUCHE!"
And would not say another thing thing till they left.
Sometimes she would sing that sentence. Later, with a couple more I I I's in it.
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Longest sentence. I think
"C'mon! Wanna go outside and go for a ride in the car?" (in my voice)
Dogs would run to me.
"C'mon! Wanna go outside and go for a ride in the car?" (in my voice)
Dogs would run to me.
Having mild OCD and been a SK fan is great. You constantly count the amount of letters in peoples names, and add up the numbers on car license plates. I picked 19 twice at our local club's 1-40 draw, and won both times, £80 up in half an hour. At our local football club, Huddersfield Town, they sell numbered tickets , the prize is between £1000 and £3000 . My girlfriend buys a couple of tickets each week. One week I bought 2 , straight away I counted the numbers , ie 1673 = 17. They came to 16 and 17. So I thought if I buy 2 more , at £1 each, then I would have one adding up to 19, but I didn't. Yep , at halftime the number was 1675 the ticket I would have bought19 - Stephen King Wiki - Wikia
There is another link but I cannot get it to work - go to
darktower.wikia.com/wiki/19
Another link:
Talk Stephen King: The katet of 19
I sub-contract to a kitchen/ bathroom firm, fitting kitchens. I got my bathroom pretty much for free, including one of those self closing seats, the same technology that's on our kitchen doors and drawers. It reminds of on The League of Gentlemen where Steve Pemberton's ultra hygienic character wishes for a self closing toilet seat. It wasn't fun at work this week, I wish customers wouldn't put family photos on the window board behind the toilet. It's hard to perform in front an audience.used the customer's toilet yesterday instead of wandering off over yonder behind that tree there? looked like a regular joe, whitish, seat, lid...raised both. do it. pee. and whilst peeing i notice this round circle thingy on top of the tank, centered but to the right? ummm, what's that....ah...relief. i bend over a tad...what is that? has a...finger? on it...something. no lever to flush...and me, ashamed of my own pee. what's a man to do? shake, tuck, drop and roll...legs splayed, teeth happy...wait now, i'm not a dog! anyway, i reach for the round thingy and the toilet flushes on its own. modern marvels. later, the customer says, check this out...they lower the lid and stop? halfway? and the darn thing closes itself. n'air more shall i be! blamed for leaving the seat up! 'cause there's a new toilet that closes on its own. spooky. like...would a toilet like that raise its lid, all by its lonesome? say, if it saw you coming to use it at night...no night light? toilet raises lid and seat...and you sit on the rim? the cold cold rim? and you get that drop of water that leaps up and licks you right at that exact moment your butt cheek hits the cold?
this is why i am still moderated.
I've seen some of the photos of your enviable work. After that initial pee I hesitated to use their bathroom. There is a brushy area in the backyard behind a storage building that has been working fine...no spooky toilet to deal with. Haven't seen anything posted going virile on Facebook as yet so I think I'm safe. Another customer...who recently purchased a copper sink, copper faucet, etc...and hasn't had me set it up yet, still working (they are) on a top decision, they think possibly hammered copper or planks supported by pipe. Anyway, this other customer set up a spray on their toilet between the shut-off and the tank? Long metal hose, sprayer...no toilet paper on hand. New age? I'm trying to figure out the logistics of it all...no blow dryer I saw...so what? People have a towel hanging nearby? I'm clueless. Maybe someone knows but I'm not sure I want to...know. Be having toilet nightmares now.
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