Comments on: Tower of London Ravens Put in Cages, Moved Indoors http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower_of_london_ravens_put_in_.html Independent. Conservative. Unruly. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:19:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Talkin Horse http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower_of_london_ravens_put_in_.html#comment-110126 Talkin Horse Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:50:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower-of-london-ravens-put-in-cages-moved-indoors.php#comment-110126 <p>exhelodrvr, presumably you know about the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424565/" rel="nofollow">movie</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140008170X/qid=1140655323/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-3652644-3575263?s=books&v=glance&n=283155" rel="nofollow">book</a> about those wild parrots.</p> <p>The movie garnered favorable reviews, but it didn't drag me into the theaters. Maybe when it comes around on cable...</p> exhelodrvr, presumably you know about the movie and book about those wild parrots.

The movie garnered favorable reviews, but it didn’t drag me into the theaters. Maybe when it comes around on cable…

]]> By: chase http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower_of_london_ravens_put_in_.html#comment-110125 chase Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:48:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower-of-london-ravens-put-in-cages-moved-indoors.php#comment-110125 <p>In looking at that photo again, man that’s a runt of a bird. The crows/ravens that I see here in the southwest picking at stuff on the side of the road could probably carry Sir Ravenmaster Derrick Coyle away. Also I don’t think he’d be holding the bird so close, at least more than one time. :)</p> In looking at that photo again, man that’s a runt of a bird. The crows/ravens that I see here in the southwest picking at stuff on the side of the road could probably carry Sir Ravenmaster Derrick Coyle away. Also I don’t think he’d be holding the bird so close, at least more than one time. :)

]]> By: exhelodrvr http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower_of_london_ravens_put_in_.html#comment-110124 exhelodrvr Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:34:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower-of-london-ravens-put-in-cages-moved-indoors.php#comment-110124 <p>Sounds like the birds need flu shots!</p> <p>Talkin Horse:<br /> We have the wild parrots in San Diego, too. And they love our fig tree when the figs get ripe. Of course, having 20-30 parrots in your back yard squawking at 5:30 AM gets old after about the second day.</p> Sounds like the birds need flu shots!

Talkin Horse:
We have the wild parrots in San Diego, too. And they love our fig tree when the figs get ripe. Of course, having 20-30 parrots in your back yard squawking at 5:30 AM gets old after about the second day.

]]> By: Talkin Horse http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower_of_london_ravens_put_in_.html#comment-110123 Talkin Horse Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:23:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower-of-london-ravens-put-in-cages-moved-indoors.php#comment-110123 <p>Hi, Junkie, I don't work at JPL, but I'm an escapee from CIT, so you're close. No doubt the bakery you mention offers four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, and that's why you thought of it in this thread? Or perhaps you had a less mentionable specialty in mind? I don't have much occasion to buy cakes, but I lament the passing of <a href="http://www.calendarlive.com/dining/101317,0,1314300.location?coll=cl-dining-features" rel="nofollow">HoneyBaby's Teacakes</a>, which was a black-owned business selling unique bakery treats based on a family recipe dating back to the old South. Most bakery goodies are too heavy for me to dare keep them around, lest they become habitual, but the teacakes were light.</p> Hi, Junkie, I don’t work at JPL, but I’m an escapee from CIT, so you’re close. No doubt the bakery you mention offers four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, and that’s why you thought of it in this thread? Or perhaps you had a less mentionable specialty in mind? I don’t have much occasion to buy cakes, but I lament the passing of HoneyBaby’s Teacakes, which was a black-owned business selling unique bakery treats based on a family recipe dating back to the old South. Most bakery goodies are too heavy for me to dare keep them around, lest they become habitual, but the teacakes were light.

]]> By: political_junkie http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower_of_london_ravens_put_in_.html#comment-110122 political_junkie Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:43:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower-of-london-ravens-put-in-cages-moved-indoors.php#comment-110122 <p>Horse:</p> <p>My ex-wife's brother used to live in Pasadena. There is a bakery there where he used to get the most amazing cakes....</p> <p>Do you by any chance work at JPL? If that isn't prying to much.</p> Horse:

My ex-wife’s brother used to live in Pasadena. There is a bakery there where he used to get the most amazing cakes….

Do you by any chance work at JPL? If that isn’t prying to much.

]]> By: Dave J http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower_of_london_ravens_put_in_.html#comment-110121 Dave J Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:50:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower-of-london-ravens-put-in-cages-moved-indoors.php#comment-110121 <p>Talkin Horse, the Ravens of the Tower are definitely MUCH larger than common crows. I must say, I also find it extremely amusing that five of them have names from Norse myth, but the sixth is named after Baldrick from <i>Blackadder</i>.</p> <p>Charles II would know: after all, during his lifetime, the kingdom DID fall, at least in the sense that his father lost his throne and then his head to Cromwell's puritan military dictatorship.</p> Talkin Horse, the Ravens of the Tower are definitely MUCH larger than common crows. I must say, I also find it extremely amusing that five of them have names from Norse myth, but the sixth is named after Baldrick from Blackadder.

Charles II would know: after all, during his lifetime, the kingdom DID fall, at least in the sense that his father lost his throne and then his head to Cromwell’s puritan military dictatorship.

]]> By: chase http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower_of_london_ravens_put_in_.html#comment-110120 chase Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:41:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower-of-london-ravens-put-in-cages-moved-indoors.php#comment-110120 <p>Save the Kingdom? … , quote the raven “Nevermore”</p> <p>:)</p> Save the Kingdom? … , quote the raven “Nevermore”

:)

]]> By: Talkin Horse http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower_of_london_ravens_put_in_.html#comment-110119 Talkin Horse Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:46:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2006/02/tower-of-london-ravens-put-in-cages-moved-indoors.php#comment-110119 <p>This provides an excuse for me to wonder whether ravens are the same as crows. Wikipedia tells me they two are related, but the crows are smaller. It also mentions that, although we commonly refer to a collection of the birds as a flock, the specific terms are a <i>murder</i> of crows and an <i>unkindness</i> of ravens. I've never heard anyone actually use those terms, and I can't imagine how they came to be declared, but that's what they say.</p> <p>Here in Pasadena where I live, there's a flock of wild parrots that show up here and there now and then. Legend has it that long ago, there was a mass escape as a result of pet store fire (like in the movie "Peewee's Big Adventure"?), and the free birds have prospered nicely.</p> This provides an excuse for me to wonder whether ravens are the same as crows. Wikipedia tells me they two are related, but the crows are smaller. It also mentions that, although we commonly refer to a collection of the birds as a flock, the specific terms are a murder of crows and an unkindness of ravens. I’ve never heard anyone actually use those terms, and I can’t imagine how they came to be declared, but that’s what they say.

Here in Pasadena where I live, there’s a flock of wild parrots that show up here and there now and then. Legend has it that long ago, there was a mass escape as a result of pet store fire (like in the movie “Peewee’s Big Adventure”?), and the free birds have prospered nicely.

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