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The 13 Thursday Flight Plan

blmpzc.jpg1. A mother phoebe with a nest in the porch rafters has been using our picnic table for her runway while making feeding trips to her babies, as evidenced by the bird droppings I have to clean up everyday.
2. The above gives new meaning to the term “poop deck.”
3. “Pooh” is actually a name listed in some baby books. The meaning of the American originated name is listed on one baby name site as: Little One. A popular name for pets or stuffed animals or a pet name for humans. The popular storybook character “Winnie the Pooh” was named after an actual bear in the Winnipeg zoo named “Winnipeg Pooh”
4. In naval architecture, a poop deck is a deck that constitutes the roof of a cabin built in the aft (rear) part of the superstructure of a ship. The name originates from the French word for stern, la poupe, from Latin puppis. Thus the poop deck is technically called a stern deck, which in sailing ships was usually elevated as the roof of the stern or “after” cabin, also known as the “poop cabin.” ~Wikipedia
5. My husband used the term “Mucky Muck” recently. I had no idea it was a real term, where it came from, or what it meant. It reminds me of the first time I heard SOL (shit out of luck) and the person who used it was thought it was incredulous that I didn’t know what it meant.
6. For many years whenever any asked me ‘if you had to be an animal which would you be?’ I always answered a duck because they can fly and swim.
7. Have you heard of or seen THIS amazingly bright pink dolphin?
8. Was the word “chirp” invented just for birds?
9. How did Led Zeppelin get its name? According to the Wikianswers, when Jimmy Page was assembling the group, Keith Moon (drummer from The Who) got word of his plans and predicted the group would go down “like a lead balloon” (this is a common English expression). Bassist and keyboardist John Entwistle thought it would be “more like a lead zeppelin.” Page took the phrase and decided to change the phrase because he said “those damned Americans will pronounce it lead (leed) zeppelin.”
10. And the Beatles? The old “party line” that John Lennon used to give was: “A man came down on a flaming pie and said ‘let there be Beatles with an A’” A more orthodox explanation is it was inspired by Buddy Holly’s backing band “the Crickets” and the misspelling was a play on words to describe a “beat” band.
11. I used to like to black out teeth and draw hair-dos and mustaches on faces in magazines, but I never drew anything like THESE, found at Pearl’s place.
12. When the rush of writing stops and the stories slow down I feel like a race horse in the stall expecting to find myself at the starting line with the start-up gun go off at any moment.
13. The birds are back … checking out the real estate … a high-rise nest … on my porch rafter … A one room shelter … inaccessible to cats … with southern exposure … and a landing deck … Find out how this poem ends HERE.
More Thirteen Thursdays are HERE.

May 28th, 2009 Colleen Redman Posted in Thirteen Thursdays

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