Maggie's Farm

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Saturday, April 27. 2013

Here's lookin' at you, kid


Vultures in Buddy's back yard in Texas. I think they are Black Vultures.


Clearly they are waiting for Buddy or his pup to die, but with a little luck those will not happen any time soon.




Posted by Bird Dog at 04:05 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Heh --yes, do NOT take a nap against the trunk of that pore old dead oak tree. I had to take that pic because the late afternoon sunlight was so red to the black buzzards (is buzzard a vernacular term? --i never thought about it 'til now). So i turn back and put the camera back in the truck maybe 150 feet from the tree, then look back and there's six or eight more have lit in the same tree. I felt like Bob Newhart's wife that time she got caught in that Alfred Hitchcock movie.
#1 buddy larsen on 2013-04-27 06:09 (Reply)
From dictionary.com:

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English busard < Old French, variant of buisard, equivalent to buis ( on ) buzzard (< Latin būteōn-, stem of būteō kind of hawk) + -ard -ard

Or, more relevantly:

3. Slang. a contemptible or cantankerous person (often preceded by old): That old buzzard has lived in the same shack for twenty years, constantly leaving comments on Maggie's Farm.

So you've got that going for you.
    #1.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2013-04-27 07:21 (Reply)
    --thanks, doc --and what an amazing coincidence, that dic's doctionary uses Maggie's Farm in its demonstration example!
    #1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2013-04-27 11:57 (Reply)
    A quote from African Queen would be better :By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.
    #2 Karen on 2013-04-27 07:12 (Reply)
    LOL --yep --it must've been a fit of magalomania that they paired old Bogart (looking as worn-out as possible) with prim and young Hepburn --to see how high they could stack the deck against the movie and still make it work --
    #2.1 buddy larsen on 2013-04-28 20:53 (Reply)

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