Ere - DaveL,
Oi fink they be onter us. Ave a gander at this (http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1850780.htm).
D'yer fink they'll find our sekret breeding program? Oi werked pretty ard to ensure all them wild night parrots be dedd, so we could corner the market wiv our kaptive bred berds. Oi must've missed cleanin one up on me last field trip an now the orforities are on the look out.
Ow long till we can start shippin berds to our customers? 'Aven't we got enuff bred up now to be able ter releese summe? Oi been offered over 100,000 dubloons per berd iffe Oi ken supply summe before Easter.
YArrr...
Oi remembers the last toime we tried breedin' a 'night parrot'. Everytoime we let it out, it kept goin' out on the town, gettin drunk and waking up the 'day parrots' looking for females.
The werst bit was when he started lookin for a curry or kebab at 3am in the morning, singing 'here we, go here we go' and gettin into fights.
Maybe that's what happened to the one they found dead.
Lets keep our breedin' programme on schedule matey!
YArr!
YYYAAARRRRR...Ye had me worried there fer a moment...I has been to Queensland and I thought it was a noice quiet god fearin sort o place. I misread the article and I thought it were talkin about a 'Night Pirate'! They be the worse sort o Pirate...sneakin about at night and gettin up to all sorts o mischief.
Also I wouldn't get too excited about this great ornithological discovery. We've got Night Parrots in the UK...they're called Owls!
What about the Kakapo (aka owl parrot)?
Quote from: Swatopluk on February 19, 2007, 03:10:13 PM
What about the Kakapo (aka owl parrot)?
Gah! I wouldn't let anyfing with the works "Kack" an' "Poo" in its name perch on me shoulder.
YArrrr...
Those bleedin' things were Aussie parrots that got blown across the Tasman Sea a few millenia ago. They're so bloomin' lazy they can't even fly.
It's a good thing Tiddles (me cat) hasn't made a trip to NZ just yet.
Yarrr! Oi wuldent bee so shore o that Cap'n DaveL, the kakapo are endangered you know? Wuldent surprize me iff Tiddles wern't ter blame... mean little baskit got 'old o' wun o' me peg legs wiv 'is claws the utha daye, Oi 'ad ter nok 'im of wiv a stik. Kuldent see wot the littel blighter were up to, but it dident look healthy ter me!
Me peg leg's not the same now, it's abowt 3 inches shorter and theres all these holes in it. I 'ate ter think wot the disgustin littel spawn o' th' deville thought 'e were doin....
Do this be avin awt ter do wiv the demise of the Night Porter in our towns an citiyes? Oi cant get wun fer luv nor money.
YArrr...
Tiddles tells me he has a penchant for both night porters and night parrots.
Mind you Bluenose, that All Blacks jumper he's bin sportin' makes me wonder just where he has bin of late.
He's also taken to doin' the Haka, when Oi gives him a saucer of milk...no idea why?
YYYAAARRRRRR, It be obvious to me...
Tiddles is Welsh!!!!!
Oi be lookin forrard ter the moment wen Tiddles reealises BB welshed on im !!
YArrrr...
It be the Tiddle's ginger fur that has confused Bart.
Oi heard Tiddles was going to be interviewed on TalkPort Radio - yarrr O'im scared already.
Tiddles as bin dying is air agin? Or is e a naaaatral ginger?
Thar be only one way to find out...someone will ave to ave a close look at Tiddles's ...
(...and it aint gonna be me!) ::)
...family tree - YArrr sorry wrong thread!
Let us just remind ourselves what this 'Tiddles' has got up to in the past:
(http://homepage.mac.com/antonyroberts/.Pictures/Daft%20images/Tiddle_war.jpg)
Psst - did ye hear what the Royal Canadian Mint is up to?
100 kg Gold Coin to be Issued (http://www.canada.com/topics/news/oddities/story.html?id=405fb475-eabf-445a-986f-a38236362b8c&k=13551&p=1)
It will be the size o' a pizza - now, that'd slice up into some nice pieces o' eight!
Methinks we need a raiding party.....
Perhaps it's like The Million Pound Note (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046072/), you never actually have to spend anything if you're seen with one.
Aye, but ye'd need to have a special pocket tailored for it.... it's nearly sixteen stone!
YYYYAAARRRR I knows just where to hide it...same place as me key to me treasure!!! Brenda wont even notice!
YArrr, that's probably a same hidin' place where the Purple Avenger came 'a cropper'.
Brenda 'as a Purple Avenger?
Well, Oi fer one will be patronisin' annuvver waterin' 'ole.
Oi heered good fings abaht "The Pressgang's Revenge", but keep aht of the "Sailor's Arms".
Well, we is all nautical types, an' knows all too well where sailors 'as been....
ARRR ! Ah cum ta fess about dem frog pirates ....I took da leggs .
YArrrrrr...
Brenda might have a bit of trubbles gettin' airborne. It's the aerodynamics that scare me.
Yarr! Ye jess need a big enuff engine. The ole Wright Cyclone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_R-1820) should do the trick.
Oi as ter interject 'ere.
Me lad 'as jest gon an got a real huge enormous engine certified - Oi dunno 'ow as 'e did all 'iself an' it were tuch an go fer a wile - but I seen ther thing an it's bigger en me 'ouse !!
Rolls-Royce engine certified for Boeing's 787 8th Aug 2007 (http://www.reuters.com/article/tnBasicIndustries-SP/idUSL0787823220070807)
Wotch ther 1st flight (http://rolls-royce-stream.dc1.coull.biz/rolls_royce_content/Intranet/FTB_WM9.wmv)
jest look at ther big whopper (http://www.rolls-royce.com/media/images/PRImages/trent1000_1strun_03.jpg) (if that dont werk try this (http://civil.rolls-royce.com/Trent-1000-jet-aero-engines/) - bottom o page - sorry fer rude bottom werd).
they never bilt em like this befour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Trent#Trent_1000_Series)
Ye wants ter know 'ow it werks, Oi mite appleye fer Engin Teecher at ther PPP Skool 'as Oi 'as bin instructed loike.