(strictly) for the birds informal not worth consideration; unimportant : this piece of legislation is for the birds.
This week my mission is to prove that talk is cheep. (No, that's not a typo. It's a pun. Get used to it.)
In a migration from past droppings, I've taken a flyer and added links to audio and video files. I hope they take wing and transport you to greater heights of enjoyment.
In a migration from past droppings, I've taken a flyer and added links to audio and video files. I hope they take wing and transport you to greater heights of enjoyment.
1. Honk if you love Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Click to listen to him sing Cry Of The Wild Goose.
2. Foul or fowl? Either way, it's avian money you'll find a pun or two in this one.
Click to watch The Race To The Opera scene from the 1978 movie Foul Play.
3. Cockscombover
Click to listen to Bagatelle sing the 1981 song, Trump Card. Don't worry if you can't understand the lyrics. They don't make any more sense than what The Donald has to say on any subject.
4. The details are all in his bill.
Speaking of space, click to watch and listen to Peter Schilling's Major Tom in English and in German.
5. But when the early bird is a chicken...
Click to enjoy E.C. Ball singing The Early Bird Always gets The Worm (1976).
6. Lyre (or is that Liar) Bird
Click to watch The Castaways singing their 1965 hit Liar, Liar. Note that the woman dancing in front of the boy band is every bit as superfluous to their performance as Carly Fiorina's candidacy is to electoral reality.
7. Jailbirds (formerly Railbirds)
Click here to watch a cockatoo break out of a locked cage.
8. Eagle Droppings
Click to listen to Requiem - Collateral Damage. It's not a pretty song; but then, there's nothing pretty about bombing a hospital. This is what happens when dumb people are put in charge of dropping smart bombs.
9. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Click to read Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar, the poem from which this item's title comes. This line from Sympathy also serves as the title of Maya Angelou's autobiography .
10. Blog Bird
Click here to watch Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in the 1962 movie version of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. In this clip Atticus tells the jury that in America the courts are the great levelers where all men are created equal.
If you have not read the book or seen the movie, I suggest that you do so. It will help you understand the mid set of both sides in the current brouhaha over the Black Lives Matter movement and discover why those on the right are wrong in their condemnation of the movement.
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