This is the opposite of a random thread. Once a topic is chosen, posts must stay on the topic until someone decides to change it, and a GAPA agrees. GAPAs will zap as necessary to keep things on track.
NEW TOPIC:
Birds
Soccer
Architecture
Plants
Origami and Paper Folding
Musicals
Camp
The May/June 2006 issue
Sheer Joy
It starts at Comment 1.
This topic just popped into my head. I have no idea whether Musers are interested in birds at all. Still, we have to start somewhere. Let’s see how it, well, flies.
I don’t want Soccer,I want Zoo Tycoom.
Zoo Tycoon 1 ius better than 2. My stratity is to use the shift 4 chreat ast the begining of the game, where there is nofencing to break. Then, when I have a frew million, start the game. I like to do the ocean map,, its good ffor Poalr Bears, peiguins and Saltie Crocs. though not so good for White Negal and Bengal tigers. Its also geat for lions: They can’t espcpae with the moat in the way.
I don’t play Soccer. VF does tho.
Zoo Tycoon is fun. Did you know on zoo tycoon one you can get mermaids and unicorns? Funfullness.
Anotherthing to add on (sorry for double post) Inamed my insectivore dinosuars 9whoi I can’t spell out the name of) Grant O. ceaser, Jadestone and Michelle W. Inamed the entie exhivbit The Jnadestone Exhibit. I’m going to name more dinsaurs aftter more Musers, excpet the males, who i’ll name after Presidnets.
I play soccer for our school team…
I play goalie or stopper..
does anybody else play soccer?
No, but I name dmore Dinosuars Skipper Nancy and Mongomerygurl.
4- *gasp* Why thank you! I’m touched. *sniff*
And now so this doesn’t get zapped: Soccer is fun. Zoo Tycoon is fun too. I was playing it the day before yesterday…
Violetfire plays soccer. I don’t. I play Ice Hockey. Anyone else?
You named a dinosaur after me? Why thank you I am honored.
I like soccer as a topic. Soccer is a great sport, though I have never been on a team nor am I good at it nor am I even properly aquainted with all the rules. I just like running around and kicking the ball.
I also like that it’s such a low-scoring game. It makes it all so much more intense and high-stakes, you know? I mean, it’s not like in basketball where you can score hundreds (well maybe not hundreds) of times. One single goal is a huge difference.
The World Cup has been lots of fun to watch. I’ve already posted all my opinions about it, though.
I play… *gets pied before she can say it*
Scabble. Yes, Scrabble. A sport you play with your mind.
Clearly soccer isn’t working. We need a topic to bring this thread into focus. (That’s the point: it’s supposed to be non-random) Any suggestions? I was thinking about birds–not sure why, just a whim. Birds, anyone? Or..?
We have a parakeet named Luna. She’s blue. Hi, Luna. Luna says to you all: Squak squak chirp.
i like birds… it was really weird, the other day there were all these crows on my street even though they’ve never come there before.
Birds is good for me! Then again, I can ramble on about nearly any topic you throw at me, so I’m not much of a judge. Other ideas: teaching, things you do when you’re bored, painting.
Birds are cool, though. I like hummingbirds, but woodpeckers and quail make me laugh sometimes. Parrots are amzingly intelligent.
is anyone worried about bird flu?
Can we change back to Zoo Tycoon? I like it. I liked how in #1 you could do dinosours– and by the way, why isn’t there one named for me? I’m deeply hurt!– and sea animals.
What JD and I liked to do sometimes was this:
Build a really good zoo, one with lots of dino exhibits, and lots of guests, I’m talding like five hundred.When you get bored, let all the animals and dinos out of their exhibits. Fence off the zoo entrance so no one can leave.Watch the animals ravage the guests. Dinosaurs will eat each other. It’s suprisingly funny.
Then, when you finish, exit without saving so that it all goes back to normal.
I like to use the Grassland Zoos. They aren’t as confusing as the ones with themes.
15: this lady i know stocked up a years supply of food and bought a shotgun to keep people from drinking out of her pool. so yes, some people are VERY worried about bird flu. as for me, i’m not worried. yet. it if morphs and gets so it can jump from people to people, the i’ll be owrried.
I birdwatch a lot, with my mom- I probably have more than 200 species on my life-list. We went down to the marina yesterday and saw a lot of pelicans, gulls, terns, cormerants, house finches, savannah sparrows (more heard than seen), an immature surf scoter.. not bad, considering that it’s not migration or anything (nesting season)- we usually see a lot more, but we usually come here (I’m in CA) in July instead of June..
What do you think about the ivory-billed woodpeckers? there was that period in which everyone agreed that yes, it was an ivory-billed in the video and stuff, but now Sibley and some others are saying it was just a pileated in a different position..
I ♥ OWLS!!!
on soccer, I am now a world cup watcher though not obsessively.
I like birds. When I was in Costa Rica we saw many including a quetzal!
To me, its easier to do the ocean map. Animals can’t escpae: With the expcetions of the combined exhbits. I had a polar bear escape, but I put ihim back in the exhibitand sold him. Then I quit without saving.
I would try that, Violetfire, but I’m too much of a wussie. can’t stand to seeguests scream.
Let’s change the subject- how about… *drumroll* dinosaurs! Maybe that wouldn’t be a topic change, since birds are dinos, so it’s the current topic.
21- They thow up too. After bieng tossed up in th air by a T-Rex, that is.
I ♥ birds
I really like painting owls.
My cats bring a [dead] bird to our doorstep almost every day *cries*
4- Keep us up to date on our Jurassic-Cretacious-Mesozoic alter egos!
Birds. I like cockatoos. ‘Cause their feathers are super cool.
I have to try the thing with the dinos sometime. Sounds fun.
Birds… Once a pigeon pooped on my head. It was disgusting. Very much so. I was scarred for life.
Hummingbird pwns. I got to hold one once. Their hearts beat fast!
A biologist I know once studied hummingbirds for a project. She didn’t hurt them–just held them and fed them from a dish of sugar water and let them go. She said, “They weigh less than nothing. They’re lighter than air. And when they drink, their little tongues shoot out, phthwwwp!” (A hummingbird’s tongue is longer than its body.)
my cat kills birds. sorry, that’s really nhot constructive.
Zoo Tycoon rocks. You get mermaids by dropping mermaid statues into the water. Name an exhit “Xanadu” to unlock unicorns. There this other thing i cant spell that turns all dino poo into rocks.
On another note, hummingbirds rock 28-cool. You cant get birds in zoo tycoon though.
16-instead of letting the animals out, put the guests in and move the gate behind a rock.
80. Accually, you can. OPut in the Avairy, and select the type of bird oyou want. You won’t be able to see them other that faint glimpses, but you’ll haage comfert in that they’re there.
Birds. Let me see… I like Chcikadeees, and Bleu Jays, and Cardinals. I accualy have coinversationswith birdsby iimitating their calls. My grandpa did that, too.
It would be great if ivory bills were still alive. and incidentaly, why is the name and email boxes yellow? its like they were highlighed.
I have the first Zoo Tycoon. Unicorns? How? You can get Christmas trees on Christmas…and there are cheats? Bleah. I’ll Google them. Oh, comment 30. Nevermind about the Unicorns.
31- I love doing that!
Are there any other cheats?
I played soccer for many years. Up to last year, actually. Center midfield.
I was hissed at by a Canadian goose yesterday. Probably because I was chasing it with a camera. I got some nice shots, though…
Now I want to play Zoo Tycoon againe. *goes off to play*
Wow, Google-ing works. I found tons!
I am a bird!! You don’t belive me??? Check with Rodger Tory Peterson!! Purplefinch is a bird too! I love Birds! Has anybody gone BIRDBANDING??
The ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct!! I am soooo happy!!!
Has anybody here heard of a brown thrasher??? They have scary yellow eyes!!(falls under hypnotic spell…)
Another bird I like is the common loon…
31- For Zoo Tycoon- Name someone(a guest) Alfred H. and birds attack everyone. (Hey, it’s related to the thread)
28- wow, I didn’t know that about hummingbirds.
There was a hummingbird nest in a tree in my backyard. We watched it through binoculars. We got to see the chicks when they hatched…it was so cool!! They were teeny.
Every year around spring, we start getting woken up in th morning by this loud clanging in the chimney. Every year some rather confused woodpecker (I often wonder if it’s the same on every time) flies into out chimney and tries to hollow out a nest in there, despite the fact that it is quite clearly metal, not wood. And it just keeps coming back. Every morning. Every year.
I missed the Architecture topic. That will teach me to leave Museblog.
I wish there were more birds in big cities. There are mostly pidgeons and the rare robin in our yard, although we had morning (mourning?) doves a few years ago.
A while ago, my family was really involved in protecting birds of prey who live in the cities. We got up really early and went to band (for tracking) some baby falcons quite a few times.
A bird has made a nest in the window of my parents’ bathroom. It’s one of those windows that cranks open, and doesn’t go up and down but pivots outwards. They knocked the nest down twice, but those tenacious little birdies built it again. Now there’s an egg in the nest, so no way are they knocking it down this time.
heh…
change the subject to dinos GAPAs or i eat everybody not birds just dinos pleeeeeeeeeeease change to dinos or i eat everybody
38- ooh, yeah, thrashers look rather insane… so do mockingbirds and shrikes.. it’s kind of scary- they can look absolutely maniacal..
Ther eare three baby birds in the my birdhouse. Black capped chickadee chicks. Thee are naked and pink-skinned, with little tiny beaks. So precious…
31- I did that!!!!! It was sooooo funny!!!!
Birds are dinos. Evolved dinos. Meh. What now, [censored]s?
42 (Zallie)- Yeah. There are peregrine falcons on the roof of our library, though. They have a stuffed one in the lobby. My dad thought it was a penguin when they first put it there.
what is bird-banding?
crows!
relly.
theyre actually quite intelligent.
bird banding is when licenced people set up traps(usually mist nets???) to capture birds. The birds are taken out of the traps, and a lightweight metal band is placed on their leg. All sorts of things are recorded, such as wingspan and age. The birds are then let go, unharmed. It is done for purely scientific reasons, and it helps ornothologists find out about migration. You also (when you are in America) get to hold the bird. That is my favorite part!!
Sorry for that lecture!! Bird banding is really fun!!
I’ve never tried it, but it sounds interesting.
My dad got such a cool picture of red-tailed hawk this morning!! He likes taking pics of the wildlife when he walks the dog and has a special lense on his camera which zooms in really well. It’s this picture of the hawk sitting in a tree with his beak open and his feathers all puffed up. He also got a really nice one of one flying the other day.
(51) Yeah, that’s what I was doing when I got to hold the hummingbird. I had forgotten. I want to it again sometime!
It does sound coo. But don’t the raptors bite?
I’m sure the banders wear those heavy leather gloves that go up, like, to your shoulders. And maybe the raptors are nice.
Speaking of Zoo Tycoon 2, you can’t get white Bengal Tigers normally, by adopting them. You just adopt regular ones, and if you’re lucky one of them will be white.
We went to the Aviary today, and we got there right at feeding time! We got to throw live crickets in the air and the birds would swoop down and catch them mid-air and eat them. We could also hold live mealworms up in the air and the birds would fly down and eat them from our fingers! It was so much fun!
Where I birdband, we don’t usually do birds of prey, but that may be because we are a sort of small operation, or because the mist nets are not quite sturdy enough…
what kind of birds do you usually catch?
Do you live in PA? Isn’ the Ruffed Grouse PA’s state bird.
57- You adopt 4 or 5 while it’s paused, then when you unpause one will be white(if you’re luckey)
(58) *is envious* Wow that sounds awesome. I want to try.
It does sound really fun. I’d like to do that someday…
Does anybody else have an Aviary near them or been to an Aviary before?
(60) Yeah, And I’ve lived here all my life and never seen one.
60- I haven’t seen one…*looks for picture in Audubon Society Field Guide*
Never mind, I think I have. Only I thought that it was a quail.
I live in PA too..and I’ve only seen one at the Aviary
Once, we went to Sea World, and we went to the manta ray exhibit (it was like a big floor-level tank that was open on top) and it was feeding time, and the zookeeper was doing a demonstration on feeding them, and he chose JS and I to try it! (Probably because we were all of, like, six and eight and were wearing matching shirts) It was really cool! Their mouths were like vacuums, almost, because to feed ’em, you held a little fish between two fingers and put your hand in the water. Then a ray would come along and suck it away and eat it whole. They don’t have teeth. Plus, there was this REALLY big one, and when it ate from you it almost sucked in your whole hand! It was really cool.
Rays are the only fish I know that will come up to you and make friends. I always find it slightly unnerving when one of these flat pointy things that looks like a failed experiment in jet propulsion wafts up to the side of the tank and says “hello”. Sure, you wave at it, make cooing noises, maybe tickle it on the spine, but your brain still says “It’s a FISH…………..”.
I don’t live in PA, I just liked the name Ruffled Grouse. I think I saw one on a Christmas Bird Count. I’ve never been to an aviary before. It sounds really cool!!!
We get some barn swallows, tree swallows, catbirds, bluejays, robins, house wrens, different sparrow species, goldfinches, chickadees, brown thrashers(that is where I got the closeup of the scary yet hypnotic yellow eyes), yellow-throated warblers(and other warblers too). I think they get kingbirds, and few years ago there was a hummingbird. This list could go on and on, but I am probably boring you stiff. I know I am forgetting really ovious species, but it is early, and I am tired, and I can’t remember everything right now.
Is there a bird called Ruffled Grouse? I think it’s Ruffed Grouse.
I know, but Ruffled Grouse sounds so much more amusing…
(70) Once I was scuba diving and a remora- No wait. Was it a remora? Yes. A remora swam up to me and tried to eat my hair. He snapped at the ends (I had unwisely forgotten my hair-tie). I waved him off but he still followed my group around the whole time. That’s not exactly tring to make freinds, though.
(64) Yes. There’s a desert wildlife museum outside of town that has an aviary which is quite nice. They also have a seperate hummingbird avairy which is great! I love going in there and watching the teeny little birds swoop around and hover and chase eachother.
I agree Ruffled Grouse, it brings to mind a very funny image.
Yesterday there was a roadrunner in out backyard! We have a quailblock on top of this adobe oven, and all the quial hang out on top of and around it. Suddenly we noticed all the quial were gone, and then we saw that there was this big old roadrunner sitting on top of the quailblock!
(a quailblock is just a large cube of seed)
He was really funny and arrogant looking. He struted around a lot, scaring all the the finches and dove as well. The this alfa male quail came out and started chasing after him! It was really cool. He left, but came back to a different section of the backyard. I’m thinking I might be able to use some of the photos I got for this month’s Muse Contest.
Wow! I have never seen a road runner in real life!
We saw one in Arazona. Or was it New Mexico?….yeah, mom says new mexico. Anywhee, the’re not that big. Warner Brothers exagerated them a lot, thay are not like small ostriches. The’re about 2 feet tall or less.
70- When we were in Florda, after we did the Sea Wold feed-the-rays thing, when we went to the beach some fishermen had accedentally caught a really pretty whhite-tan speckled ray and we got to go really close to it when they tried to get it un tangled. It was sad, cause the fishermen couldn’t get to close to it without it floping around. They didn’tt want to get stung, although me and VF ddidn’t when we were petting them. they came up to us to be peted…*sighs fondly* And the good thing about doing it when I was 8 was that I didn’t think of it as just a fish.
I am so, so, so extremely sorry for mentioning this, because it doesn’t really need to be mentioned at all, and I know that the architecture topic is over, but:
We were going canoeing today and we drove by Falling Water.
ok, that’s all I wanted to say.
We need a new topic…
lets revive Architecture! It was one of the last topics on the old one and no one visited it then so we never really talked about it.
I was just at a friend’s house which is a Tudor built in 1917 and mine is a tudor built in 1927 and it is interesting to see how hers is more victorian looking and mine simpler. Hers is also larger with room for servants.
Architecture! I’m currently living in a TINY area where all the cottages are at least 200 years old…(We can’t even fill up our bathtub – the floor won’t support its weight!)
Where did all the birdies go?
*calls in army of turkey vultures*
Does anyone here know if budgies have language abilities? My friend is trying to teach her budgie to say hi, and I’m beggining to wonder if it’s possible.
We have this pine tree that’s taller than our house, and birds love it. A couple of ’em live there, but most just visit.
yeah, they do have language abilities, but only if there’s only one of them- if there’s more, the budgies don’t feel the need to bond with humans or something since they’ve got companions.
my mom and dad are totally obsessed with watching and looking up the birds that come to the feeder outside our front door. they’re fun to watch, but man, are they all LOUD at around 6:00 in the morning.
my favorites are the spotted towhees. and seagulls.
i’m trying to make a model of jurrassic park on zoo tycoon. i too feed guests to the dinos. lions’ll eat ’em too. it’s also fun to put the guests in the great white shark tank. *jaws music starts playing*
mwa ha ha ha ha!
My house is just a house. It is not interesting at all, just a heap of bricks and ivy. There’s no architecture to it, no kind of style at all.
I love it.
I’ve never really noticed architecture before. To me, buildings are just sort of… there.
the squirrels in my backyard always eat most of the birdseed. Nothing I do will stop them. Absoluteley nothing. It drives me CRAZY!
Architecture? Hmm. I agree w/Penty-chan there…
Penty (85) and Ebeth (87),
Oh, come on. Do you really think you’d like Hogwarts just as much if it looked like a shopping mall inside? You do respond to architecture; you just haven’t ever thought about what you’re noticing. You will, though. There’s no escaping from a Muser’s omnivorous curiosity.
I definitley respond to architecture. It makes a HUGE diffrence in the atmosphere. (Witch I care alot about) We have a class in our district for “High potential students” Or “HP” students. (Basically its for smart kids but hey don’t want to make other people feel bad :))
Well we did a unit on roman architeture. (The style of architecture big bridges and stuff :P) It was fun. We got to build bridges.
w00t!!! Architecture RULEZ
I read this article about someone who made Hogwarts out of matchsticks. I think it was in ask , actually. My mom’s friend is an architect and designed her own house. It’s really cool!
90- Purple Panda? You read an article in Ask about somebody who built Hogwarts out of matchsticks? Speaking of Ask, it’s published by the same company that publishes Muse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wOOt!
I know. My brother gets it. And my sister’s switching from Highlights (booooo) to another magazine published by muse. She’s still deciding which one, though.
When and if I “grow up”, I’m gonna make a giant dome for my house. I think that the windows will all be different colors. Has anybody noticed thos sprinklers that make kindof a shiny dome of water? Maybe I’ll make a wall out of a really big sprinkler… Hmm…
90- How do you get italics?
Italics: <i> and </i>
My house is a ranch. Like pretty much every other house in our area.
I have a random issue of Architectural Digest in my house. It’s very pretty.
I wanted to be an architect for the longest time. Then I wanted to be a ME. IN college, I will probably change my major manymany times. xD
SM – how did you get the italics signs without turning the “and” italic?
Let’s change the subject to Roller Coaster Tycoon. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Of course, Batman. Anything you say!
Sorry, I was trying to impersonate Rossane (sp?) in that last post.
[And don’t do it again!-Admin]
Well, not everybody has/knows what roller coaster tycoon is. Maybe it should be just computer games in general, then other people could contribute to the thread as well.
95- & lt; without the space = < and & gt without the space = >
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like that?
(I hope that works)
ok, no, it didn’t. That’s ok.
ooh! ooh! architecture! we are studying renaissance architechture right now. st. marks in venice rox my world!