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[sorrowmonkey]

This morning has been a series of small shocks...

I opened the back door to get dog food; I looked up, and there was a gigantic turkey and a couple of chicks. I unfortunately didn't get the camera in time, but the chicks were so cute.

Next, I read that parsedgarnish indulged in "squee." To be fair, our copy of Han Aapke Hain Koun is coming next week.

Finally, the headline on My Yahoo is that al-Zarqawi is dead. Good riddance to another rat bastard in the world.

It does sort of make me trepidatious to leave the house though. It's getting difficult for "my poor nerves," and I may have to indulge in "twichings and flutterings" if it keeps up.

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Oh, last night I found out that fall classes for Quinnipiac part-timers are Monday and Wednesday, 6-10pm, and Thursdays, 6-8pm. In the spring, apparently the short day is on Tuesday instead of Thursday. Also, apparently in most of the classes, the final exam is 100% of the grade. A little scary, but to be fair, that's pretty much how the Bar works.

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Turkey visits

[darthluna.livejournal.com]

I do love when they come visiting. Its damn neat. Plus I figure any bird that big must eat a lot of ticks. Considering we have deer strolling around as often as not, thats for the best IMHO.

Hooray for getting rid of the latest miserable bugger teaching hate. I just hope the replacement bugger isn't quite so quick to step up and start torturing and killing. Mind you I'm not holding out too much hope, as killing fequently begets more killing, but really what other choice was there?

Re: Turkey visits

[nrawling.livejournal.com]

"He needed killin', Judge"

"Well, that's alright 'den, but don't go a-killing anyone that don't need it."


I was thinking about the whole War on Terror/Iraq/Afghanistan thing while listening to the radio the other day. The moral and ethic issues are all over the place, but I'm taking solace in a very selfish reality: the killing is over there instead of here. If there has to be killing, and certainly in this case there had, it might as be as far away from me and my family as possible.

I know too many people nearly killed in 9/11 to want it here.

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

oh hurray for the turkey and the mini turkies. that's fab. I knew I had been hearing them the last few weeks in the morning. They must next around there.

[baronessmartha.livejournal.com]

yay for simple things that bring us joy.
oy your days will be long next semester.
smoooches

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

we discovered that baby turkeys are called "poult" cause we are geeks that way.

Thats fab!

[darthluna.livejournal.com]

poult, heh excellent
I did know that there are peacocks, peahens and peachicks, but I hadn't known the right word for baby 'ittle turkey chicks

Re: Thats fab!

[parsedgarnish.livejournal.com]

I guess when their full grown, they'll get to be Poultry. Still in the egg, they're just Pou.

Really, it's almost a cop-out as a baby-bird name.

Re: Thats fab!

[nrawling.livejournal.com]

Argh.

Re: Thats fab!

[parsedgarnish.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh. And I'm not even trying to be pfunny.

Re: Thats fab!

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

*snort*
heh

it's a shorten form of the word pullet apparently
how's that language geekness?

Re: Thats fab!

[parsedgarnish.livejournal.com]

It's excellent. A+.

Pullet, is undoubtedly from the French/Latin. So what we have at the end of the day is that a baby turkey is called "Little Bird".

But I suppose that's consistent with 'chicks' from 'Chickens'.

Ah - language.

Re: Thats fab!

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

we do enjoy the languages, why yes we do.

It is also appropriate for pheasants and other wild edible birds, that are not ducks or geese.

[nrawling.livejournal.com]

I knew I should look it up, but I was too lazy.

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

nah, that's what your goofy wife is for.
^_^