PT-WWTBAM Transcript 08/17/09 Lee-Ann Whitlock (Rexalite)

[sunflower]

Anyone want to start up the Colorado River debate again?

lb13

Sorry, I can't...I have to go clear a gonfaloon of vultures off the soft top of my car...

[littlebeast13]

Anyone want to start up the Colorado River debate again?

lb13

Sorry, I can't...I have to go clear a gonfaloon of vultures off the soft top of my car...

Watch out for the bezark of buzzards hovering over them......

lb13

[sunflower]

Anyone want to start up the Colorado River debate again?

lb13

Sorry, I can't...I have to go clear a gonfaloon of vultures off the soft top of my car...

Watch out for the bezark of buzzards hovering over them......

lb13

I'll throw my huzzatafall of brownies at them to scare them away...

[littlebeast13]

Sorry, I can't...I have to go clear a gonfaloon of vultures off the soft top of my car...

Watch out for the bezark of buzzards hovering over them......

lb13

I'll throw my huzzatafall of brownies at them to scare them away...

If those are the ones with the special peanut butter, just make sure there isn't a conspunction of squirrels lurking nearby.....

lb13

[sunflower]

Watch out for the bezark of buzzards hovering over them......

lb13

I'll throw my huzzatafall of brownies at them to scare them away...

If those are the ones with the special peanut butter, just make sure there isn't a conspunction of squirrels lurking nearby.....

lb13

No they were dark chocolate with bonus chocolate chunks.

[Estonut]

If those are the ones with the special peanut butter, just make sure there isn't a conspunction of squirrels lurking nearby.....

I believe the proper collective noun for squirrels is a squash...

[littlebeast13]

I'll throw my huzzatafall of brownies at them to scare them away...

If those are the ones with the special peanut butter, just make sure there isn't a conspunction of squirrels lurking nearby.....

lb13

No they were dark chocolate with bonus chocolate chunks.

That's enough chocolate to kill and entire farringading of dogs.....

lb13

[sunflower]

If those are the ones with the special peanut butter, just make sure there isn't a conspunction of squirrels lurking nearby.....

lb13

No they were dark chocolate with bonus chocolate chunks.

That's enough chocolate to kill and entire farringading of dogs.....

lb13

Oh no, I only put two ginkosnabs of chocolate in.

[littlebeast13]

No they were dark chocolate with bonus chocolate chunks.

That's enough chocolate to kill and entire farringading of dogs.....

lb13

Oh no, I only put two ginkosnabs of chocolate in.

Does my Pyrex cup measure ginkosnabs, or am I gonna have to get a conversion chart?

lb13

[sunflower]

That's enough chocolate to kill and entire farringading of dogs.....

lb13

Oh no, I only put two ginkosnabs of chocolate in.

Does my Pyrex cup measure ginkosnabs, or am I gonna have to get a conversion chart?

lb13

It's a very complicated scientific conversion. I think it might be in the Oxford English Dictionary.

[BobMarleysGh0st]

I will make some of my special brownies, and you won't care about any of those terms.

[littlebeast13]

Oh no, I only put two ginkosnabs of chocolate in.

Does my Pyrex cup measure ginkosnabs, or am I gonna have to get a conversion chart?

lb13

It's a very complicated scientific conversion. I think it might be in the Oxford English Dictionary.

But there is only one copy of that in the United States, and it is in the Rich U library. I don't have a library card there....

lb13

[littlebeast13]

I will make some of my special brownies, and you won't care about any of those terms.

Do you put one or two panormamadingdongs of grass in them?

lb13

[sunflower]

Now if we see any of those terms on Millionaire, we know they indeed use this site as a reference!

[littlebeast13]

Now if we see any of those terms on Millionaire, we know they indeed use this site as a reference!

I think a few of our college BB's have cited us in term papers before.....

lb13

[sunflower]

Now if we see any of those terms on Millionaire, we know they indeed use this site as a reference!

I think a few of our college BB's have cited us in term papers before.....

lb13

That makes sense, since we are clearly more reliable than the Turkey Vulture Society...

[littlebeast13]

Now if we see any of those terms on Millionaire, we know they indeed use this site as a reference!

I think a few of our college BB's have cited us in term papers before.....

lb13

That makes sense, since we are clearly more reliable than the Turkey Vulture Society...

If you can't trust the Turkey Vulture Society, who can you trust?

I think we may have finally found a group with fewer members than the National Squirrel Appreciation Society.....

lb13

[Jeemie]

Anyone want to start up the Colorado River debate again?

lb13

Hell- we should start up a debate that some in my neck of the woods like to argue- that, according to river naming traditions, there should be no such thing as the "Three Rivers"- the Allegheny & Ohio Rivers should not have separate names.

[sunflower]

I think a few of our college BB's have cited us in term papers before.....

lb13

That makes sense, since we are clearly more reliable than the Turkey Vulture Society...

If you can't trust the Turkey Vulture Society, who can you trust?

I think we may have finally found a group with fewer members than the National Squirrel Appreciation Society.....

lb13

Now I don't know about that, there appears to be a lot of love out there for the turkey vultures...

[littlebeast13]

That makes sense, since we are clearly more reliable than the Turkey Vulture Society...

If you can't trust the Turkey Vulture Society, who can you trust?

I think we may have finally found a group with fewer members than the National Squirrel Appreciation Society.....

lb13

Now I don't know about that, there appears to be a lot of love out there for the turkey vultures...

Who knew Sea Hag had such an extended family......?

lb13

[sunflower]

If you can't trust the Turkey Vulture Society, who can you trust?

I think we may have finally found a group with fewer members than the National Squirrel Appreciation Society.....

lb13

Now I don't know about that, there appears to be a lot of love out there for the turkey vultures...

Who knew Sea Hag had such an extended family......?

lb13

I guess a vulture is a more intriguing animal than the squirrel.

[littlebeast13]

Now I don't know about that, there appears to be a lot of love out there for the turkey vultures...

Who knew Sea Hag had such an extended family......?

lb13

I guess a vulture is a more intriguing animal than the squirrel.

If more people knew about ES, that would not be the case.....

lb13

[sunflower]

Who knew Sea Hag had such an extended family......?

lb13

I guess a vulture is a more intriguing animal than the squirrel.

If more people knew about ES, that would not be the case.....

lb13

At least a vulture wouldn't eat my patio furniture.

[littlebeast13]

I guess a vulture is a more intriguing animal than the squirrel.

If more people knew about ES, that would not be the case.....

lb13

At least a vulture wouldn't eat my patio furniture.

But try getting a vulture to draw you cute pictures.....

lb13

[MarleysGh0st]

Except we've gone far beyond the original Turkey Vulture Society site, and found other sites that state the same thing- some of them independently.

I think the work sunflower has done shows sufficient evidence exists that vultures are called a "venue" on the ground and a "kettle" while circling in the air.

It doesn't matter whether it is a "popular" usage...unless you can prove that any of the other birds are called by those two names, I don't see that you have a case.

At worst, you can say the question was unfairly valued- but we've seen that before.

Very likely, TPTB would agree with your reasoning, Jeemie.

Personally, I think there's a difference between saying a group of vultures are called a "venue" in a list of what groups of animals are called, and actually calling them a venue of vultures in practice. The former may simply have been coined by unemployed English majors with too much time on their hands. The latter would be evidenced by books and journal articles by ornithologists using the term in the context of a more detailed study of their behavior. You know, something like "Social Interaction in a Venue of Vultures: A Study by John James Audubon and Alfred Hitchcock."

Has anyone found such a usage, as opposed to those "fun fact" references?