Nature Is Magical 3: Bird Edition
I’ll admit it: I’ve always had a particularly soft spot for strange (but true) trivia, and nature goes out of its way to provide an endless source for that need. One of the highlights of my childhood vacations was getting a chance to visit a (the?) Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum in Myrtle Beach (land of the minigolf course, where shells with googly eyes roam free), which was exactly as kitschy and hokey as you can possibly imagine.
Word to the wise: that mirror they provide you with to try tongue tricks? Don’t trust it. God damn it, don’t trust that stupid thing.
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By the way, if you haven’t heard already, our Etsy store now has an entire section dedicated to stickers. STICKERS!!!
STICKERS. STICKERS. STICKERS.
Something struck me as wrong with the starling… Then I realized that I expected it to actually say “Hello, Clarice.”
I tip my hat to you for conceiving of a far more contextual line. We’ll totally credit you when we change the line for print editions. (shifty eyes)
Unfortunately, the real quote is “Good evening, Clarice”, but I’m not sure anyone really cares about that. Rather like “Beam me up, Scotty” misquoted (and beloved) by thousands of geeks worldwide.
Hehe, yeah, it’s vastly often misquoted as “Hello, Clarice” instead.
Same with “Luke I am your father” as well. Funny how the game of Telephone works 😉
Mmmmm, Yummy T-rex!
I see what You did there, with the reference to Dinosaur Comics. I love the way Your mind works.
Your too perceptive to let anything slip past! <3 I'm glad you noticed!
Business Cat! is sruzbiznz.
I read the Starling’s voice as Robin Williams from Ferngully. “Human-tales? Humans don’t have tails! They have big bottoms and they wear giant shorts and walk around in the day going “HI HELEN!” ” haha
Actually, that’s exactly what we were going for! K and I probably laughed at the line for a solid ten minutes before realizing that no one else would get it — so happy you did anyway!
Totally thought that’s what you were going for too lol.
Oh man, now I gotta go watch Ferngully again…*snerk*
My family used to visit Myrtle Beach almost every year. Some of my absolute most surreal memories are from there! (Myrtle Beach in general, not the museum in particular)
I do remember that museum, though. The shared embarrassment of that damn mirror is the thread that connects everyone who has been.
I have a personal vendetta with starlings. I think they’re trying to kill me. They swarm my yard frequently, like a scene outta The Birds… It’s gettin’ Hitchcocky up in here!
That just means that they are ridding you of the probably numerous chinch bugs and scarab larvae that would otherwise eat up your grass. They aren’t trying to kill you, merely protect your precious yard! Praise the starlings!
I too have been to that Myrtle Beach Ripley’s and minigolf course! MB is one of my favorite vacation spots, and my family’s been going since I was a kid. Happy memories.
There’s a Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum in London too.
Hey! Stop pointing out that our national bird is rubbish! We’ve been trying to hide that.
F=M*V. Which is why you get ‘exploding pigeons;’ an eagle is much more massive than a rifle bullet.
We’ve had an ‘exploding’ pigeon issue here in Indy since peregrine falcons were aeried in some of the buildings downtown. Which is kind of awesome.
Here’s weird trivia: doves and pigeons are some of the few birds that actually drink. They don’t need gravity to do so. So, the one bird you show floating in the ether is one of the only birds who could do it in zero g!
We explained on Tumblr/elsewhere that it was actually a bit of an in-joke! That’s why we depicted a white dove/pigeon — the bird NASA sent up in the Vomit Comet specifically! <3
Wow… NASA sucks…
Can’t believe they would send a freaking dove up into the VC. I imagine it was just to ‘see what happens’ too. Why must society hate pigeons!!!
Sorry lol, I’m a freaky bird person. Don’t awknowledge my views, ESPECIALLY when they are about aviankind. xD
I knew there was a reason I was weary of chickens
Having owned chickens, I have NO trouble seeing the ancestry. 🙂
Holy fuck, Americans who I haven’t met who know about kiwis. You guys are awesome. Kiwis are actuialy kinda fluffy and spikey up close. And yes, I am from New Zealand, home of the Kiwi and of the mighty All Black’s.