Comments on: The birds https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/24/the-birds/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 26 May 2025 22:19:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/24/the-birds/#comment-2803802 Mon, 26 May 2025 22:19:35 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141582#comment-2803802 “Aristophanes…”
“RIDICULOUS!!”

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/24/the-birds/#comment-2803755 Mon, 26 May 2025 14:43:31 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141582#comment-2803755 Heh, no Rufus, and I’m off to look for it on the youtubes

. . . and found. Who can resist Betty White!

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/24/the-birds/#comment-2803753 Mon, 26 May 2025 14:01:56 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141582#comment-2803753 sdferr,

Did you ever see “The Odd Couple” episode where Felix and Oscar are on the gameshow, “Password,” and Felix gives Oscar the clue, “Aristophanes?”

]]> By: Whitehall https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/24/the-birds/#comment-2803750 Mon, 26 May 2025 13:09:29 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141582#comment-2803750 Sausalito ferry, on the home commute. The tourists on the top were feeding the gulls while we regulars were chatting on the fantail

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/24/the-birds/#comment-2803664 Sun, 25 May 2025 20:54:31 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141582#comment-2803664 Aristophanes — one comic not really known to forgo an opportunity to turn a scatological jest — likely won’t have missed one on this occasion.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/24/the-birds/#comment-2803658 Sun, 25 May 2025 19:52:44 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141582#comment-2803658 I saw the movie in Manhattan when it first came out. When it was over and I walked outside, there was a huge flock of pigeons swirling around.

]]> By: FOAF https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/24/the-birds/#comment-2803656 Sun, 25 May 2025 19:25:34 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141582#comment-2803656 “The Birds” has one of my all-time favorite movie scenes, later on in the diner –

Scared little boy: “Mommy are the birds going to eat us?”

Voice of waitress in background: “Three southern fried chickens with gravy!”

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/24/the-birds/#comment-2803644 Sun, 25 May 2025 18:14:50 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141582#comment-2803644 Re: Hitchcock’s “The Birds”

I just watched the first scene in honor of this topic. I love the bright 60s lighting, everyone dressed and coiffed, and the cute meet between between Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren.

Hedren pretends to be an employee at an upper-end San Francisco pet store. She is showing Taylor lovebirds. Taylor plays along.

Much double entendre ensues. 🙂

]]> By: Chases Eagles https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/24/the-birds/#comment-2803628 Sun, 25 May 2025 15:57:28 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141582#comment-2803628 When we first got this place, my wife spooked a blue heron out of the trees across from our driveway. I watched that bird circle and make two passes at her car. Two coats, bumper to bumper. She could barely see out the windshield. You do not want to be poop bombed by a blue heron with a full tank.

]]> By: NancyB https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/24/the-birds/#comment-2803624 Sun, 25 May 2025 15:24:46 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141582#comment-2803624 Who knew being bombed by a bird could be so memorable. My story is one my husband and I recount because he can’t believe he was so awful. We were visiting Buenos Aires, and had planned a walk on what turned out to be a very unpleasant route: a shut, light industrial area on a day with a rather bitter wind. We were trodding along diligently but miserably, when I was shat upon by some sort of enormous seagull — huge amounts of really ghastly stinky stuff — I think it hit my hair among other parts. My unhappiness doubled, tripled, as I complained to my husband, who didn’t take me very seriously until suddenly his looked down, realized he had also been a target, and immediately declared the expedition cancelled. In a flash we were in a taxi back to our AirBnB to take showers and wash our clothes.

On another note, we had a friend who was a “bird lady” who let her parrots/parakeets fly around her house and hitch rides on her shoulder. When they pooped, all over, she just wiped it up. I thought it a little gross — but their little milky splats were nothing compared to that seagull’s almost irradicable mess.

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