[identity profile] stillcarl.livejournal.com 2005-03-13 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee. You would like Uncle Lubin I think...

http://bugpowder.com/andy/k.robinson.heath_lubin.html

(Your bird brought back thoughts from my childhood;)

[identity profile] sylys.livejournal.com 2005-03-13 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Héhé, funny those different cultural associations,
the first thought that crossed my mind was
La Fontaine's Le Renard et la Cigogne (http://environnement.ecoles.free.fr/Le%20renard%20et%20la%20cigogne.htm).

[identity profile] stillcarl.livejournal.com 2005-03-14 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
And slightly more on target, given [livejournal.com profile] vriad_lee's bird is a stork and not a pelican... :-)

[identity profile] marmaladious.livejournal.com 2005-03-14 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Big bird! There are no birds that big around here. The biggest birds we get are this big *holds up hands a short distance apart from eachother* That a stork?

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-03-14 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
right, it's a stork. it lives in a bird hospital near my home. i forgot what its ailment (if that's the word) was, though

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-03-14 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
*Et le drôle eut lapé le tout en un moment*

sly bitch!

it's funny how in russian the fox is female, and the stork is male, as well as the corresponding nouns -- lissa (fox) - feminine gender, aist (stork) -- masculine gender.

[identity profile] marmaladious.livejournal.com 2005-03-14 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, ailment is the right word.

Birds are great, but to approch one is often risky. They get too scared too easy.

Birds...

[identity profile] pixel-boy.livejournal.com 2005-03-14 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
You are joking right? You have bothe the Great Blue Heron and the Sand hill Crane... They are close in size to the stork... ;)

Re: Birds...

[identity profile] marmaladious.livejournal.com 2005-03-14 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha! Where, exactly, do they live? Washington>America is a big state, and contains many animals I've never seen. I certainly don't see a bunch of sand hill cranes ambling around when I'm out feeding the ducks. :p :)

Re: Birds...

[identity profile] pixel-boy.livejournal.com 2005-03-14 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
They are fresh water fish eaters... They like to stay in the bull rushes and away from people. But they are there. You can find then all throughout the state. Including Olympia. You guys also have the Brown Pelican, that thing tops out at near 54" tall... But I was just saying... We have then Here in Minnesota too...

Re: Birds...

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-03-14 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
hey, another bird taxonomist! [livejournal.com profile] miwasatoshi sounds like he knows his onions too

Re: Birds...

[identity profile] pixel-boy.livejournal.com 2005-03-14 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I am not sure how much of an expert of taxonomy I am, However, birds and wildlife in general really interested me when I was a kid. And I guess that interst never went away...

[identity profile] sylys.livejournal.com 2005-03-15 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
That is quite amusing indeed, if not scarry,
how such liguistic considerations
can model our perception.

Man, the fox is awfully boyish
and the stork is definitely feminine,
you silly russianZ kozatchok (http://www.podillya.narod.ru/repertof.html) dancerZ !
Are you out of your mind !

(Though i admit one looking at a stork in a freudian
manner can obviously see a big penis there)

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-03-15 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
cultural differences aside, you must have some loose screws in your head, if you find this feminine sister foxy boyish:

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we have 'lis' (masculine gender) in some translated contes, but not in contes populaires.
btw, in russian version of the tale there is a crane (zhuravl', also masculine gender), not a stork

speaking about kozatchok, can you lilly ass leather coach loafers do this:

Image

eh-he-he, and i can

*under the shock*

[identity profile] sylys.livejournal.com 2005-03-15 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
oh my...
Image
a transexual fox,
that is just bad !

Re: *under the shock*

[identity profile] sylys.livejournal.com 2005-03-15 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
Argh (http://butterscotch.furrynet.com/Butterscotch%20Vixen/Butter%20by%20Lone%20Fox.jpg) ! Father, why has thou forsaken me ?!

Re: *under the shock*

[identity profile] vriad-lee.livejournal.com 2005-03-15 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
how i hate these disgusting innumerable flash fox pictures