The Rickeybird Scrapbook, 1984 - Updates

[LaManuka]

I was gonna say something witty about bathing shoots, but there’s no way to follow that Ol’ Thai Whiskey post. Gonna let things cool off a while.

Yeah, that Ol’ Thai Whiskey sure takes a lot of beating, ‘specially if you’ve got a drain that needs unblocking or you need to strip some paint off a wall somewhere! 😝

 

[GaleriaGila]

Sometimes there is no reply quite so adequate as a complete non sequitur.

Now we can start all over again!

 

[LaManuka]

Sometimes there is no reply quite so adequate as a complete non sequitur.

Now we can start all over again!

 

[SailBoat]

An excellent example of the high speed, multi-capable mind of a Parrot. Fully engaged in singing a song, while plotting and assuring the demise of a Cook, that never saw it coming!!

Interesting that each area of the World has their special Spirits that are good to excellent! But are downright horrible (dangerous) when copying Spirits from other regions.

 

[GaleriaGila]

I just had to include the Rb's POTM November entry here.
Mr. Boats got a ... uhhh... a special mention...

*****************************************************************************************************

 

[Rival_of_the_Rickeybird]

Yeah it was a great Turkeysgiving. Everybody in the house was healthy and happy, or reasonably so. With what's going in in the world today, I'm mindful of my blessings, ready for more of the holiday season. By New Year's Day I will be ready to drink a pint, sing Auld Lang Syne, and shed a few manly tears, in honor of our Forum.
Then....................................
A good hangover.
Remorse.
A Resolution to be a better man, husband, and parront, and then.........................................

2023 and it starts all over again!

Maybe I could just cut straight to the pint(s).

 

[HeatherG]

Sorry about your nose, Boats. I assumed it was YoUR nose that got bit off, Rival.

 

[GaleriaGila]

"Dear Santa, heres what I need to get all the noses EVVVeryWHERE!
Please send to me an I get busy an pretty soon I got all the noses in the worrrrrrrrrrl'! Thank you Santa, I love you!"

 

[Kentuckienne]

Rival, you are an inspiration. I also vow to become a better man, husband, and parront. I have just been informed that this vow is denied. Ok, I will do the pint thing. That seems permitted. Perhaps I will mail you and the missus a small white fruitcake with three kinds of booze in it. Oh, don’t you think I won’t, young man. Don’t make me turn this forum around.

 

[HeatherG]

Rival, you are an inspiration. I also vow to become a better man, husband, and parront. I have just been informed that this vow is denied. Ok, I will do the pint thing. That seems permitted. Perhaps I will mail you and the missus a small white fruitcake with three kinds of booze in it. Oh, don’t you think I won’t, young man. Don’t make me turn this forum around.

View attachment 46198
"Dear Santa, heres what I need to get all the noses EVVVeryWHERE!
Please send to me an I get busy an pretty soon I got all the noses in the worrrrrrrrrrl'! Thank you Santa, I love you!"

“The parrot nose pliers are especially good for round items.” LIKE FINGERS.

We knew those beaks were adapted for something and it’s biting FINGERS.

 

[GaleriaGila]

FINGERS AND NOSEZ UPDATES

"Okay this is Dr. Rickeybird, Noze Specialist, and Special Correspondent ELmo which is my special correspondent. You can read on noses. Heather you can be Special Correspondent on FINgers! "
SEE UDATE HERE!

Elmo's World: Noses

The design of the "Pinocchielmo" puppet is influenced by the Pinocchio puppet that appears in a News Flash. The segment is further referenced when Geppetto is caught on Pinocchielmo's nose, and shouts "Stop! I want to get off!"; the same thing happened to Kermit in the news segment.

muppet.fandom.com

************************************************************************************​

 

[GaleriaGila]

Rival, you are an inspiration. I also vow to become a better man, husband, and parront. I have just been informed that this vow is denied. Ok, I will do the pint thing. That seems permitted. Perhaps I will mail you and the missus a small white fruitcake with three kinds of booze in it. Oh, don’t you think I won’t, young man. Don’t make me turn this forum around.

"FRUITCAKE CORRESPONDENT!
KENTUCKIENNE IS FRUITCAKE CORRESPONDENT!"

Rickeybird World Domination continues with formation of SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS Network!!!​

 

[HeatherG]

My ex’s family used to get a fruitcake and booze from Scotland and set it on fire. Be sure to keep Rb away if you do that.

MY FINGERS are not very bitten right now. Willow has been trying to remove a spot on my cheek and is just making it worse. Jasper got in a bit of a pinch on Thursday but was chill yesterday.

I will be a cleaner person today, doing the laundry and sweeping that I’ve neglected. I have heaps of laundry. And maybe I will print some Willow-themed holiday cards and send them out. It will be a cold winter day indoors with birds.

 

[SailBoat]

A cold snowy day with Lake Affect Snow Piling-up here!! The Snowblower didn't want to participate, so I connected the electric starter to it and sent the snow a flying.

Time to warm-up and for some reason, burning a fruit cake never came to mind. Likely because, I would see that as a terrible waste of Good Rum!! But, if someone else wanted to torch a fruit cake, well, have at it!!

Julio just kept staring at me while he stood aside 'His' glass enclosed gas-fired, fireplace, likely thinking the same thing as he glanced over at the Admiral's Grade, Island Rum!

A look out the windows proved that the work, outside, to remove the five inches (125 mm) of snow was a waste of time as an additional three inches (75 mm) has gathered with more coming down.

Our local TV station with near all new /young Weather experts were busy explaining that Global Warming (I guess they are call it Climate Change, now) will result in more snow for us in the Winter time. The sad part of getting old is one remembers Trick-or-Treating in a Snow Storm and Thanksgiving's with near 40 inches of snow on the ground (about one meter) and playing Golf on Christmas Day. Its Michigan, we get Weather and Weather predictors' get it so wrong, so often, that they now use three, or more, weather models to show us what might happen, maybe!!

Sipping on a bit of Rum and thinking that in my next life, I will be a Weather Predictor, get paid very well and just move-on to the next storm, happy that people have short memories!!

FYI: Over the last 20 to 25,000 years, the World has become warmer and the Oceans have raised 4 to 600 feet. I predict that by 2035, it will be warmer and the Oceans will continue to raise -or- we will sink back into an Ice Age. Payment (or tips) are accepted to assure that a Great Rum will always be available!!

A Very Merry Christmas Good Friends!!

 

[Kentuckienne]

Me, a fruitcake correspondent? I’ve been called worse.

 

[HeatherG]

Me, a fruitcake correspondent? I’ve been called worse.

Well, I just made a big order from nuts.com. So if you need some for your fruitcake, let me know.

 

[GaleriaGila]

Boatsie, heads up, you're CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT! Unless you'd rather be a RUM CORRESPONDENT! Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?????????????????

Meanwhile, the sequelae to the Fruitcake Transmission...
Special research note... the outrageous (some may say rogue) drink was ice-cold nonfat milk. Keep an open mind!

 

[GaleriaGila]

ON JANUARY 2, A LIST OF NEWLY-APPOINTED (holiday) FIELD CORRESPONDENTS WILL BE COMPILED AND IMMPORTALIZED HERE. BE SURE TO SHARE ANY PERSONAL FOIBLES OR QUALITIES WHICH MAY DISTINGUISH YOU!!!

THAT'S AN ORDER.

 

[HeatherG]

ON JANUARY 2, A LIST OF NEWLY-APPOINTED (holiday) FIELD CORRESPONDENTS WILL BE COMPILED AND IMMPORTALIZED HERE. BE SURE TO SHARE ANY PERSONAL FOIBLES OR QUALITIES WHICH MAY DISTINGUISH YOU!!!

THAT'S AN ORDER.

Oh, I think not.

Y’all know enough about my bird sniffing and silly song singing already.

 

[Kentuckienne]

I modestly display on my kitchen wall my certificate from the Alex Foundation stating that I am the “Nuttiest Sponsor” because one year I bought all the nuts for the birds. It would be an honor to serve as the Nuttiest Correspondent in the Rickeybird’s cabinet. Hmm, why is the cabinet locked? Why are there gurgling and swilling parrot noises coming from inside? Is RB already in consultation with the Rum Contingent? WHERE HAS THE RUM GONE?