August 27, 2006

The Arty Bees Cabinet of Curious Bibliophilia Featuring such fine titles as What Bird Did That? (yes, that), The Truth About Fonzie (I don't want to know) and Jammin' ("If you can stand up on skates, you can "get down" on them.")

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posted by mandyman 18 years ago
  • Curious indeed!
  • This amusing amanda... very amusing.
  • this is.. damnit!!
  • Yes she is amusing!
  • This charming amanda...
  • My favorite quote from Glamour Film Fashion and Beauty: "DON'T DATE ACTRESSES!" warns Rock Hudson. They "hold no special attraction for me."
  • Ok I laughed. Oh for some corporal punishment from a bold banana! The 70s sure were are embarrassing. Thanks mandyman. I will now scrub my eyes with jet fuel.
  • Forewarned is forearmed ... and four-armed is half an octopus.
  • Great advice: "Never cast off a wife - wear her out." Interesting origami. Lookie the little spermies swim!
  • One of my siblings gave me a copy of What Bird Did That? a few years ago. I just went looking and found the damn thing still in the bookshelves in the bird room. Wot is wrong with us? Can no one in this house bring themselves to throw out useless reading matter? The body of the book consists of pictures of bird dejecta, splays, or splats, as the authors (Peter Hansard/Burton Silver) call them. Anyway, this book scarcely qualifies as reading matter. Perhaps the most rivetting part is the glossary, which reaches the acme of revulsion with this entry: "sploober Flexible plastic tube used to suck up a wet splay and transfer it to another surface."
  • Note how bees just throws out the term "bird room" like it is commonplace, like everyone has a bird room. That's how weird we birdkeepers get. We make special rooms. For birds. One of my parrots even has his own bedroom. Or, to use the vernacular, roosting room. But it's because he needs it.
  • Why the Chamber of My Birds is Called The Bird Room Because: The house of my horses is called a stable. The pond of my aunt is called a lake. The bed of my elderly dachshund is called mine. But I sleep in the other one because she digs and she snores. So unlike the Noble Horse.
  • hee hee Bees, my horses snore--great gusty honks and flutters.
  • The guy who started my company subsequently moved on to writing a similarly interesting series of children's books.
  • Lovely, InfraMonkey! I'm thinkin' there are Monkeys out there that may really need this information. If you can't tell these two apart...
  • "Scat and Tracks for Kids." Oh my.
  • I knew there would be one that I own. Bought it at a library sale for a buck. I mean, really, how could I not?
  • To be fair, TP, it does say "Cultural History" on the cover. How could the enlightened part of yourself not buy it? A buck for cultural history is a bargain!
  • Scat and tracks ... is the sort of thing kids used to learn in Scouts. Back in those ancient days before adult sexuality became focused on children.
  • 1. The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification 2. Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Dagestan 3. Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence details