Re: limpkins, my wife and I got to see some earlier this year hunting for snails in the swampland adjacent to & underneath a southern Louisiana visitor center. I suspect that you would enjoy seeing them in the flesh. My personal #1 from the bird name list is Dark-eyed White-eye.
"100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time.” is wonderful, and well (funnily) written. A lot of the names, including ones you mentioned, would make great epithets. Just put "You" at the front and a screamer at the end: "You Double-eyed Fig-Parrot!"—Carunculated Caracara! Hoary Puffleg! Checker-throated Stipplethroat! Mouse-colored Penduline Tit! Zitting Cisticola! etc.
The author says making "ventriloquist" into an adjective (as in "Ventriloquial Oriole") is a problem. I would suggest "Ventriloquish" as a simpler alternative.
I recently picked up a vintage French chore jacket in Palm Springs at an antique mall, not knowing about this connection. I'm still processing what to do with this information, and now the jacket.
I love a niche link roundup and this one is great. (Thanks for the link also! YISE is just so offensive to me)
Re: limpkins, my wife and I got to see some earlier this year hunting for snails in the swampland adjacent to & underneath a southern Louisiana visitor center. I suspect that you would enjoy seeing them in the flesh. My personal #1 from the bird name list is Dark-eyed White-eye.
"100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time.” is wonderful, and well (funnily) written. A lot of the names, including ones you mentioned, would make great epithets. Just put "You" at the front and a screamer at the end: "You Double-eyed Fig-Parrot!"—Carunculated Caracara! Hoary Puffleg! Checker-throated Stipplethroat! Mouse-colored Penduline Tit! Zitting Cisticola! etc.
The author says making "ventriloquist" into an adjective (as in "Ventriloquial Oriole") is a problem. I would suggest "Ventriloquish" as a simpler alternative.
Thanks for sharing my story, Nancy!
Ugh, Palantir chore coat -- the Cybertruck of clothing.
I'll grant that the coat isn't as ugly as a Cybertruck. But it's equally offensive, yes.
I recently picked up a vintage French chore jacket in Palm Springs at an antique mall, not knowing about this connection. I'm still processing what to do with this information, and now the jacket.
A vintage chore coat is fine, I'm sure. No creepy message inside? No worries.
But from the outside, it looks exactly the same. <cries>