This goes out to the one and only Maalie:
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Thursday, April 10
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Gorgeous! Bird bribery eh? You are so wonderful, intelligent, sweet, gifted etc etc. Does that count as ten comments?
It looks like four to me. Thanks though!
That is of course a Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo. In some parts of the world it is known as a shag.
There is little that is more splendid than a shag by the sea.
A shag on my ship is not unknown.
Is a shag important to you Metamatician?
Hmm.. that means my new line of seduction could be,'Fancy a comorant, darling?'
Is a shag important... listen, is the new Pope German and look like the evil emperor from star wars??
BTW Maalie I knew it was a cormorant (notice the piccie title) but not which variety. Thanks for the knowledge.
Let me see if I've got this right, you're bribing Maalie with a shag?
Maalie, you sure it's not Phalacrocorax auritus, the Double-crested Cormorant? They look similar.
Both are common in N. America as on most continents, and it seems the auritus is especially common where I live.
One of its alternate names is the Farallon Cormorant, which is a reference to the Farallon Islands just off San Francisco (where Mr. Great White lives in some abundance as well).
I've also seen these is and about the estuaries that flow from the Sierra foothills, through the Sacramento valley and empty into the delta that feeds the SF Bay.
Quite a lovely bird, I like the green eyes in particular.
Raelha, that would be correct. It may be the only one I get this year. I'll just have to go pick up some smokes first...
Wandring Star, why the question anyway? Fancy one?
Mags, why don't you try that on your little friend The Weirdo and see what he says.
Metamatician, yes, it might well be the other one, I was taking a stab at specific I.D., and I would bow to local knowledge.
Estelle des Chevaliers, nice horse!
I think this puts you over 10 commetns now.
Oh, incidentally, thank you for introducing me to Occam's Razor (I knew of it under another name). I shall include it in my portfolio of life, along with Pascal's Wager.
Yes, well over ten, though where I specified the number ten anywhere is a puzzle to me. I think Mags divined it from her tea leaves.
Occam's Razor, no problem! I like Pascal's Wager as well, though I don't go to church because of it and even though Dawkins thoroughly disproves of it.
By the way, I'm sure you've heard the story in which Descartes prepares an explanation of the heavens for Napoleon. When Napoleon finally asks him where God is in all of this, Descartes says "Sire, I had no use for that hypothesis."
OK, it looks like a Pub Quiz is likely since you few people in all these various guises went to all this work, though you needn't have concentrated your commentary all upon one post of some runcible bird. There were much more fertile posts in which to plant, but that would have required scrolling down a bit, so I understand.
We're all lazy bastards luv. You should have sussed that by now.
It had better be a good quiz without lots of maths and geek stuff in it, coz I did very badly in the last one :-/
Ooooh, please can we have some maths and geek stuff?
*Sigh* I can already tell this is gonna end badly.
Well it hasn't even started yet, now HAS it?
Tum te tum..
"It's not a cormorant,
It's not a shag.
Just something floating
In a plastic bag."
(Robyn Hitchcock)
Meta, you'd like R.H. and the Egyptians or The Soft Boys.
Tried any? Early weird stuff best really.
Sorry I've not been around your gaff much, don't take it personally, I've not been around anybody's gaff much.
Yeah Rex I love Robyn Hitchcock and ye olde Egyptians, have done for years. Did ya know Robyn practically worships Syd Barret? Well he covers him and talks about him every chance he gets. Not that I mind. And he has a silly mind.
I've changed me mind about the pub quiz. Maalie is trying hard in his own way, but most of you don't read carefully and are lazy as Mags says. Likewise, I'm lazy about commenting on all your blogs. So no cause for frivolity.
No quiz. No fun, and no more fun posts.
estelle des chevaliers, meta and I are related to your Godiva. As far as cormorants, I was reminded of a flightless one on Galapagos. I didn't read all the books by Patrick O'Brian, but I hope Maturin, the doc on board finally got his bird and shagged it too.
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