by Matthew Cobb
It’s a gloomy damp Saturday in Manchester but the house is clean and the weekly shop has been done, so all is well.
In Poland, Hili has some good advice:
Ja: I jak to osiągniesz?
Hili: Unikając wiadomości.
Greetings and good morning it’s Saturday rush hour #rushhour #farmrushhour @caro_painter pic.twitter.com/vlJPD6MYpp
— caenhillcc (@caenhillcc) November 23, 2019
This is HILARIOUS. 🦆😂
These rescued ducks rush outside on the first day of snow only to turn back around just as quickly!
Video from the wonderful Sanctuary at SHO in Vermont. ❄️ #loveALLanimals pic.twitter.com/2VuybK51jk
— ༺❆ᗙ Martin 🏳️🌈 ᗛ❆༻ Party time🍷 (@KlatuBaradaNiko) November 22, 2019
Two Poppy Northcutt tweets:
My father’s response to the ad was “The only thing that could make me prouder would be to see your engagement announced in the local newspaper.” https://t.co/HIpHUaRyjH
— Poppy Northcutt (@poppy_northcutt) November 22, 2019
1929: The first voyage to the Moon imagined in Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon (Gerda Maurus)
1968: Return to Earth specialist @poppy_northcutt, the first woman given a flight control station in Mission Control. pic.twitter.com/3Ajwl3uVnC
— Chasing The Moon: The Book (@ChasingMoonBk) November 22, 2019
My kind of joke:
Here’s looking at Euclid pic.twitter.com/3JTtileAJw
— Allie Alvis 🚄 (@book_historia) November 22, 2019
Sans commentaire:
The natural order of things. pic.twitter.com/fGQwiIxYJT
— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) November 22, 2019
I invite readers to come up with a rhyme like that of Dixon Lanier Merritt – “A wonderful bird is the Pelican. His beak can hold more than his belly can.” but applying this to the common coromorant or shag (who lays eggs inside a paper bag – Christopher Isherwood):
Cormorant doing it's best to make my jaw hit the floor!
Via reddit pic.twitter.com/RJfFFZY64I
— Chris Harrod (@chris_harrod) November 23, 2019
Molluscan magic:
Golden apple snail laying eggs pic.twitter.com/rTBYoet2Z0
— Alex Eccleston (@AventuraObscura) November 23, 2019
The Boss likes sheepdogs, so here’s one for you, Jerry:
L'extraordinaire efficacité d'un chien de berger vu du ciel https://t.co/9aQHlWMHME @chaussisfamily #Rediff pic.twitter.com/oVksEmoprj
— L'important (@Limportant_fr) November 23, 2019
A “force” in the north of England is a waterfall:
High Force, Teesdale, taken last weekend (10 sec video). Wow! pic.twitter.com/VE6gT25zMf
— Sara Spillett (@saraspillett) November 22, 2019
From reader Dom:
@matthewcobb for Caturday! https://t.co/WHim70i3Uh
— H Stiles (@HStiles1) November 22, 2019
Finally, an extraordinary dream-like video from Norway:
Norwegian FairyTale pic.twitter.com/KQvTzYkwCy
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) November 21, 2019
Poppy Northcutt did a recent interview. Quite interesting. The interview starts a few minutes from the beginning.
https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0717-2019-poppy-northcutt-apollo.html
In Japan they historically fished with cormorants at night. Flaming baskets from the bow of the boat to attract the fish, and ropes around the necks of the birds.
And interesting about Force = waterfall. Didn’t know that, but it must be from Old Norse, since in Swedish there are place name ending in fors, pronounces forsh, meaning falls or rapids, like the Swedish name for Helsinki = Helsingfors.
Also, clever with the Euclid books. For some reason Euclid is a popular place name in Ohio – Euclid OH, Euclid Park in Cleveland and Euclid Ave, for starts. No idea what started that.
Also family names, like “Gardenfors”. (I am missing the umlaut on the “a”.)
A very nice collection this morning! I enjoyed them all!
I forgot to thank rickflick for the Poppy Northcutt interview. Saved for later.
You’re welcome.
I just listened to the podcast. Very nice listen! I recommend!
I see Hili’s guarding of the rainbow ribbon has been extremely effective. It hasn’t moved for 24 hours.
Somehow I broke the link. It’s this:
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/11/22/friday-hili-dialogue-farm-rush-hour-animal-tweets/
🐾🐾
To accept your Dixon Lanier Merritt invitation, Dr. Cobb: how about Ogden Nash’s “The Catsup Bottle — first a little, then a lottle”?
“otiose and supernumerary”
WEIT level : BOSS
I was, of course, channelling THE BOSS – MC
Those are some of the best hili-dialogue videos and gifs I’ve seen in ages – the snail’s eggs! the bird guzzling whole fish like Trump inhaling Big Macs! The northern lights!
Add to that the ‘mouse-escapes-from-jar-into-car’ video from the other day and this is a great run of form.
A remarkable bird is the cormorant
To them skipping a meal is abhorrent
The shag thrives on the slaughter
Of fish under water
More than alcohol nourished Oscar Levant
LS
The difference ‘tween a man and a cormorant,
Is the latter swallows fish which the former can’t.
+1!
Sara Spillet. Quite appropriate for her tweet.
Scott Simon interviews staff of long-lost kitty https://www.npr.org/2019/11/23/782255259/a-cat-is-found-5-years-later-and-1-300-miles-away.
Once, while travelling in the Orient,
I saw a handsome bird – a cormorant.
Diving with skill the calm waters of Guilin,
From a bamboo raft its master was poling,
It followed wherever its quarry went,
And returned with a fish, to my merriment.
Another +1 for the verse.
On the “fairy tale” – how close is Jerry to the *south* magnetic pole? I suspect there is too much light this time of year to see the aurora down there, but you never know …