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RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:04 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Lecivius
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
I dated a woman on and off for a couple of years
I'm still trying to picture this [X(][X(]
[:D]
Oh, she looked like a gorn, picture that. No she didn't.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:08 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Revthought
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
Doesn't the cowbird chick grow like twice as big as the Robin and the Robin chicks end up starving to death as a result?
Edit
Never mind, I guess not. Do you think the Cowbirds grow up thinking they're Robins? That would get a little confusing during mating season. [:D]
This just proves that good parenting does not necessarily produce good results. The cowbird chicks always grow up to be delinquent. By the way, in the case of a robins nest, the cowbird will be slightly smaller. If its a finches nest, way way the other way.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:11 pm
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Revthought
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
Doesn't the cowbird chick grow like twice as big as the Robin and the Robin chicks end up starving to death as a result?
Edit
Never mind, I guess not. Do you think the Cowbirds grow up thinking they're Robins? That would get a little confusing during mating season. [:D]
This just proves that good parenting does not necessarily produce good results. The cowbird chicks always grow up to be delinquent. By the way, in the case of a robins nest, the cowbird will be slightly smaller. If its a finches nest, way way the other way.
I figure the cowbird chick gets enough worms crammed down its throat that it never wants to see another robin again. Cowbirds are seed-eaters, after all.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:19 pm
by geofflambert
Here's an example of a cowbird chick with its momee a common yellowthroat.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 8:12 pm
by rustysi
she lays her eggs in the nests of birds of other species.
Let the other mama birds do all the work.
Lazy bi... [:D]
Yeah, I got a bird brain smacking at my patio door. Dammed bird keeps lurching at the window. Looks like a robin to me, but I'm not familiar with many bird species. I figure its nesting in the backyard somewhere (although I can't see the location) and sees its reflection in the glass. Must view it as an interloper, competitor, or something. No matter how often I shew to critter away it keeps coming back. Been at it three/four days now.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 8:50 pm
by geofflambert
It cannot resist the aura of your perfectness. Draw the drapes and be careful when you go outside. Better still, never go outside.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 8:58 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Revthought
Doesn't the cowbird chick grow like twice as big as the Robin and the Robin chicks end up starving to death as a result?
Edit
Never mind, I guess not. Do you think the Cowbirds grow up thinking they're Robins? That would get a little confusing during mating season. [:D]
This just proves that good parenting does not necessarily produce good results. The cowbird chicks always grow up to be delinquent. By the way, in the case of a robins nest, the cowbird will be slightly smaller. If its a finches nest, way way the other way.
I figure the cowbird chick gets enough worms crammed down its throat that it never wants to see another robin again. Cowbirds are seed-eaters, after all.
I don't believe you get the full consequence of being a cowbird chick raised in the nest of robins. Not only do you get worms for breakfast, you get robin vomit for supper.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 10:46 pm
by Zorch
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
This just proves that good parenting does not necessarily produce good results. The cowbird chicks always grow up to be delinquent. By the way, in the case of a robins nest, the cowbird will be slightly smaller. If its a finches nest, way way the other way.
I figure the cowbird chick gets enough worms crammed down its throat that it never wants to see another robin again. Cowbirds are seed-eaters, after all.
I don't believe you get the full consequence of being a cowbird chick raised in the nest of robins. Not only do you get worms for breakfast, you get robin vomit for supper.
This thread has gone where no thread has gone before...for good reason.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 11:55 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Zorch
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
I figure the cowbird chick gets enough worms crammed down its throat that it never wants to see another robin again. Cowbirds are seed-eaters, after all.
I don't believe you get the full consequence of being a cowbird chick raised in the nest of robins. Not only do you get worms for breakfast, you get robin vomit for supper.
This thread has gone where no thread has gone before...for good reason.
Does that mean I get a TV series in the 60's? Do I have to fight Captain Kirk in it?
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 1:53 pm
by geofflambert
I'm forgetting... What's the title of the first episode of those movies about an IRS audit of the Clampetts? Oh, I remember now, Return of the Jed I.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 2:57 pm
by Orm
Today I stood a long time in the rain, watching a couple of ducks grazing on grass. Pondering on things.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 4:12 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Orm
Today I stood a long time in the rain, watching a couple of ducks grazing on grass. Pondering on things.
Svenskere ponder a lot. In the rain. Is your life like an Ingmar Bergman film?
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 4:26 pm
by Revthought
Svenskere ponder a lot. In the rain. Is your life like an Ingmar Bergman film?
Don't Bergman films work because everyone can see their own lives reflected in them?[8D]
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 4:47 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Revthought
Svenskere ponder a lot. In the rain. Is your life like an Ingmar Bergman film?
Don't Bergman films work because everyone can see their own lives reflected in them?[8D]
You don't know much about gorns, do you? Bergman didn't either.
The greatest director ever is the one who directed my fight scenes with Kirk. You know, old whats-his-name.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 6:14 pm
by Orm
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Orm
Today I stood a long time in the rain, watching a couple of ducks grazing on grass. Pondering on things.
Svenskere ponder a lot. In the rain. Is your life like an Ingmar Bergman film?
I would not say that my life is like a film. Not even one by Ingmar Bergman.
But I had been on an errand and on the way there it had been blowing hard and rained snow. So on the way back I was already wet but the snow part and the wind had gone. And suddenly, on a lawn, I see the ducks eating grass. And a calm sets upon me and I stand there for a while relaxing and admiring the ducks. And that moment goes on for around ten minutes. I then continue, soaking wet, but refreshed and with a feeling of joy.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 6:15 pm
by Orm
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Revthought
Svenskere ponder a lot. In the rain. Is your life like an Ingmar Bergman film?
Don't Bergman films work because everyone can see their own lives reflected in them?[8D]
You don't know much about gorns, do you? Bergman didn't either.
The greatest director ever is the one who directed my fight scenes with Kirk. You know, old whats-his-name.
Was that the film where Kirk kicked you around? [;)]
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 6:19 pm
by geofflambert
No, the one where he made a cannon out of bamboo. The Professor from Gilligan's Isle consulted on that episode. [:D]
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 6:24 pm
by geofflambert
I want to talk about my favorite hero,
Il Duce, Benito Mussolini. He had a rare birth defect. He was born without a Superego.
Now his Ego managed to keep his Id on a short leash much of the time, but especially when he was in front of a crowd he was mostly Id.
You know, like Caliban from
The Tempest.
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 6:38 pm
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: Orm
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Orm
Today I stood a long time in the rain, watching a couple of ducks grazing on grass. Pondering on things.
Svenskere ponder a lot. In the rain. Is your life like an Ingmar Bergman film?
I would not say that my life is like a film. Not even one by Ingmar Bergman.
But I had been on an errand and on the way there it had been blowing hard and rained snow. So on the way back I was already wet but the snow part and the wind had gone. And suddenly, on a lawn, I see the ducks eating grass. And a calm sets upon me and I stand there for a while relaxing and admiring the ducks. And that moment goes on for around ten minutes. I then continue, soaking wet, but refreshed and with a feeling of joy.
So you really
ARE the inspiration for Tony Soprano! [8D]
RE: OT Things to ponder
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 6:50 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
I want to talk about my favorite hero,
Il Duce, Benito Mussolini. He had a rare birth defect. He was born without a Superego.
Now his Ego managed to keep his Id on a short leash much of the time, but especially when he was in front of a crowd he was mostly Id.
You know, like Caliban from
The Tempest.
warspite1
I think you had the wrong image for Mussolini. I have found the correct one for you.
From Benito Mussolini's medical casefile*
*allegedly....