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opelmanta1900 Offline
#1 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 12:50 PM EST
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...it's 4 colly birds... not 4 calling birds...
Notthe1 Offline
#2 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 12:55 PM EST
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Are you serious?!?!?!!!

You have to be pulling my leg.
bgz Offline
#3 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 12:56 PM EST
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If they were at your pad, they'd be 4 coughing birds.
CarsonTheCat Offline
#4 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 1:05 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
...it's 4 colly birds... not 4 calling birds...


Omg....you're friggen right! I always thought it was "calling birds" too. Looks like we're both "today" years old when we learned that!
opelmanta1900 Offline
#5 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 1:09 PM EST
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bgz wrote:
If they were at your pad, they'd be 4 coughing birds.

Nah man... 3 little birds... by my door step...
Notthe1 Offline
#6 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 1:10 PM EST
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Also WTF is a colly bird???
victor809 Offline
#7 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 1:11 PM EST
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Hang on. seriously?
DrafterX Offline
#8 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 1:12 PM EST
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long hair, big nose...they look like Lassie.... Mellow
Notthe1 Offline
#9 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 1:12 PM EST
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answering my own question.

"Colly bird?”

It’s essentially a black bird.

Although both “calling” and “colly” have appeared in versions of the song, “colly,” which is derived from the Old English word for coal, predates “calling” by more than a century.
MACS Offline
#10 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 1:18 PM EST
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Great... learned something new that is completely useless to me... and it prolly pushed out something important.

Thanks, Opie.
CarsonTheCat Offline
#11 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 1:20 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Great... learned something new that is completely useless to me... and it prolly pushed out something important.

Thanks, Opie.


But now, if you're ever on Jeopardy, you'll know the answer to Final Jeopardy!

My mind is filled with absolutely useless information, which sucks because I could really use that headspace for math...
opelmanta1900 Offline
#12 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 1:29 PM EST
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Notthe1 wrote:
Also WTF is a colly bird???

Linguistically speaking it likely derived from the term 'coaly' or to appear covered in coal...
bgz Offline
#13 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 1:30 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
Nah man... 3 little birds... by my door step...


Sounds more like rats.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#14 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 1:31 PM EST
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Well they looked like birds... i was pretty high...
victor809 Offline
#15 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 1:54 PM EST
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hah! MACS thought there was still important information in there to be pushed out.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#16 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 1:57 PM EST
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Well what if he forgot what his farts smell like? Next time he farts he's gonna get offended by the smell and blame the cat... or even worse, his wife... this could cost him his marriage... now I feel awful...
victor809 Offline
#17 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 2:04 PM EST
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.... the twist is... it's been his wife this entire time. She just convinced him they were his.
MACS Offline
#18 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 3:09 PM EST
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Who ARE you people?
opelmanta1900 Offline
#19 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 3:28 PM EST
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victor's not a people...
victor809 Offline
#20 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 3:58 PM EST
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I'm at least 3 people
delta1 Offline
#21 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 4:18 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
Well what if he forgot what his farts smell like? Next time he farts he's gonna get offended by the smell and blame the cat... or even worse, his wife... this could cost him his marriage... now I feel awful...



gold...
Gene363 Offline
#22 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 5:22 PM EST
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Next you'll be saying Bob Dylan didn't sing, Knock, Knock, Knock on Kevin's door...

Someone else actually did, but it's sorry recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWwY9RvkIeo
danmdevries Offline
#23 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 8:46 PM EST
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victor809 wrote:
I'm at least 3 people


Victor's 3 small people stacked up inside a trenchcoat
Mcdanielsamuel Offline
#24 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 8:53 PM EST
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The PC term is 'little people'.

Little People of America, the world’s oldest and largest dwarfism support organization and an international, membership-based organization for people with dwarfism and their families, advocates to abolish the use of the word “midget”. The word “midget” was never coined as the official term to identify people with dwarfism, but was created as a label used to refer to people of short stature who were on public display for curiosity and sport. Today, the word “midget” is considered a derogatory slur. The dwarfism community has voiced that they prefer to be referred to as dwarfs, little people, people of short stature or having dwarfism, or simply, and most preferably, by their given name.

https://www.lpaonline.org/the-m-word
HockeyDad Offline
#25 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 8:57 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
Next you'll be saying Bob Dylan didn't sing, Knock, Knock, Knock on Kevin's door...

Someone else actually did, but it's sorry recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWwY9RvkIeo


Best version: Guns & Roses
HockeyDad Offline
#26 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 8:58 PM EST
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Mcdanielsamuel wrote:
The PC term is 'little people'.

Little People of America, the world’s oldest and largest dwarfism support organization and an international, membership-based organization for people with dwarfism and their families, advocates to abolish the use of the word “midget”. The word “midget” was never coined as the official term to identify people with dwarfism, but was created as a label used to refer to people of short stature who were on public display for curiosity and sport. Today, the word “midget” is considered a derogatory slur. The dwarfism community has voiced that they prefer to be referred to as dwarfs, little people, people of short stature or having dwarfism, or simply, and most preferably, by their given name.

https://www.lpaonline.org/the-m-word


Short people got no reason...
delta1 Offline
#27 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 9:23 PM EST
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ummmmm...define "short"
Gene363 Offline
#28 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 9:55 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
Best version: Guns & Roses
Indeed it is. Beer
Sunoverbeach Offline
#29 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 10:07 PM EST
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I cannot accept this shift in my holiday paradigm. I need a festive safe place
MACS Offline
#30 Posted: Wed, Aug 12 2020, 10:11 PM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
I cannot accept this shift in my holiday paradigm. I need a festive safe place


Couple of German "fest" beers oughta do it...
CelticBomber Offline
#31 Posted: Thu, Aug 13 2020, 5:28 AM EST
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delta1 wrote:
ummmmm...define "short"


You sized or smaller.
delta1 Offline
#32 Posted: Thu, Aug 13 2020, 12:49 PM EST
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Flapper Flapper Flapper Flapper
DrafterX Offline
#33 Posted: Thu, Aug 13 2020, 1:39 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
Next you'll be saying Bob Dylan didn't sing, Knock, Knock, Knock on Kevin's door...

Someone else actually did, but it's sorry recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWwY9RvkIeo



Axl wrote that man... Mellow
tonygraz Offline
#34 Posted: Thu, Aug 13 2020, 4:29 PM EST
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Hell no ! Dylan writes all the music and those rat bastids steal his stuff. Dylan's version is the best.
Gene363 Offline
#35 Posted: Thu, Aug 13 2020, 7:09 PM EST
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tonygraz wrote:
Hell no ! Dylan writes all the music and those rat bastids steal his stuff. Dylan's version is the best.


It is very good, though I prefer Guns & Roses, two different styles.
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