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| Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! |
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 Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:14 am
Wow That was lucky for me.
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:16 am
...What... is a fuseling bird? biggrin
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:17 am
I have no idea. One that got hooked up to a fuse?
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:53 am
Kals is questing again!We got MORE snow this weekend. Uggh, I have blisters from shoveling. Check sig for details!
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:25 am
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:50 pm
aretoo ...What... is a fuseling bird? biggrin
No idea...o.O
Maybe it's the bird's...name, name? Like Kiki or Gwee.... But Fuseling is a bizarre name.
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:59 pm
No clue. O.o Maybe the trusty bird book will have it! Or wikipedia! biggrin
I guess Fuseling birds are special to Gaia. They're not actual birds. The 12 Days of Christmass originally calls for 4 calling birds? No clue what that is either!!
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:19 pm
I tried to wiki fuseling and got nothing.
A Yahoo answer has this to say on calling birds, however:
"The line four calling birds is an Americanization of the traditional English wording four colly birds, and in some places, such as Australia, the variation calling is supplanting the original. Colly is a dialect word meaning black and refers to the European blackbird Turdus merula.
The line four calling birds in some versions is four coiled birds.
Religiously, The 'four calling birds' are the Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; or their Gospels."
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:24 pm
So the gift was four black birds then..... like the ones that are baked into pies.
There is an old rhyme about black birds being baked into a pie for a king.
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:27 pm
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing;
Wasn't that a dainty dish,
To set before the king?
The king was in his counting house,
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey.
The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes;
When down came a blackbird
And snapped off her nose.
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:31 pm
All of those are horrible if you think about it. A bird ripped off a woman's nose! Babies falling to their deaths out of trees. Man people were morbid back then!
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:34 pm
Well, in those times it seemed like people were falling down dead left and right.... Plagues and filth all around....
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:18 pm
That's true, but you would think they would sing about happier things then. Mayhaps it was a way to take the scare factor out of it.
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:27 pm
Death is so much more fun when rhyming is involved!
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:06 pm
ring around the Rosie is about the bubonic plague... when people would find a red rash at first....
i guess you can all tell why they all fell down....
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