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Geococcyx californianus (the Roadrunner)
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Geococcyx californianus (the Roadrunner) |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia 
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Geococcyx californianus... quite a fancy scientific name for the Roadrunner, that very strange bird who is related to the cuckoo... can’t fly worth a damn but can outrun you all day long. BEEP BEEP! Get outta my way! Now we all remember that cartoon series, Roadrunner and Will E Coyote. But did you know about the Roadrunner who followed a man all the way from deep down in Mexico up to south central LA? The story as I heard it was that man messed with said Roadrunner’s finest feathered female friend, then high-tailed it outta Mexico to avoid getting his tail feathers beeped. BEEP BEEP! And that man is still running to this day. There might be a moral to this story. Who can say? [This message has been edited by Midnitesun (05-16-2003 12:39 PM).] |
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QjQ Member Elite
since 2003-04-18
Posts 3756U.S.A. |
beep beep i'm still running lol very nice write about the roadrunner  It matters not how you answer, It matters only that i hear you. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Q, who says it's about the roadrunner? ROTFL. thanks for beeping |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
Can someone explain why the coyote couldn't just buy food, i mean he was buying stuff from ACME anyway he couldn't send for take-out? |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
LOL, it never really was about hunger, Raph! Beep beep. |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
Hey sis - who is runnin from you now? loved this and the responses lol ACME ahahaha - those cartoons made me the crazee bird I am . . . Tom and Jerry too - geez - those would be like banned today (ok like the tubbies and the wiggles???) God save the children . . . sorry Kacy off on a tangent - but those legs of yours must be tired lol xxoo [This message has been edited by littlewing (05-16-2003 04:12 PM).] |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
The Arizona Road Runner was my father's favorite bird. He wore a big Road Runner belt buckle and a Road Runner bolo tie. If he believed in such things, the bird would have been his "totem" animal; of course he did not believe in such "nonsense." When he died and I had to select a grave plot for his burial, I was in the cemetary office with the manager and he was showing me a site map with available plots marked. I told him that my father's preference was to be buried under a tree (not an easy thing in most of southern Arizona. The manager told me that all the plots near the few trees were taken long ago. I looked out the window at that point and saw a large lone pine tree on the other side of the field of graves. Under that tree there was a Road Runner running around in circles. As I stared at the bird (while the manager droned on) the bird stopped running and began to hop up and down. I stopped the manager's monologue and pointed at the tree where the bird was hopping and asked, "What about over there." He said, "No, I don't believe there is anything left by any of the trees, but I will look." Indulging me, he unrolled another map and in a few minutes he exclaimed, "Well, would you look at that! How did we miss that one?" You see, directly under that tree there was an empty, unreserved, double plot. I bought it and both my parents are buried there today. Two days later, when my father was buried in his brand new gravesite, there was a normal ceremony with rifle salute and flag (he was a veteran). I had asked the staff not to lower the coffin until the funeral party had left because the were several young children who had not been prepared to see that part and their parents asked me to wait. The car I was in was the last to leave; the workmen were waiting in the airconditioned office. Just as the car began to roll, what looked like the same bird who had been hopping on the grave two days before came running down the path at the edge of that row of graves. It ran around the gravesite once and then sped of back the way it came. So that is what I meant when I said a Road Runner picked out my father's grave. Thank you for sharing your poem. |
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Pilgrimage Member Elite
since 2001-12-04
Posts 3945Texas, USA |
There's a roadrunner who lives on the road that leads to my Mom's house. I have to keep an eye out, he tries to race me. Nan (Pilgrim variety) |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
sister Littlewing, LOL, me, run? NEVER! glad you got your tangential lines straightened out.  icebox, that is the most amazing story! it should be posted in the prose section, and maybe even sent in to a magazine! thank you so much for sharing it with us Pilgrim maybe you better get some inline skates  |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
very entertaining |
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
I love this... I absolutely love it - This was my all time favorite cartoon, and your story is a grand tribute... Icebox did pretty well too...  |
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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
Thanks for the smile and the warmth of your poetry! Eric |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Dixie, Nan, eroc THANKS! and Nan? I watched that show too, and always rooted for that miserable coyote |
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