Gooney Bird Quotes

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Gooney Bird - Douglas c47a skytrain

Douglas C47A Skytrain nicknamed Gooney Bird

Gooney Bird Quotes*

 

 

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I’m the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I’m doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.
- Jimmy Piersall

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You pointy heads has no more idea of traffic control, than a gooney bird!!
- Clifton James

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I wish I was there, gooney bird. – When are you coming home?
- Three Kings (1999 movie)

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I gotta go, gooney bird! I love you!
- Three Kings (1999 movie)

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Gooney Bird Movie / Book / Poem / Joke

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Backyard Gooney Bird (2010 Movie)
In 2003, aircraft engineer Peter Hanbury fulfilled his dream of owning a plane when he bought an old Douglas DC-3 airliner, also known as Gooney Bird.
Backyard Gooney Bird is not only the story of the old DC-3, but more the story of dreamer and inventor Peter Hanbury.

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Gooney Bird Greene (book)
Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining “absolutely true” stories.

There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school wearing pajamas and cowboy boots one day and a polka-dot t-shirt and tutu on another? Gooney Bird has to sit right smack in the middle of the class because she likes to be in the middle of everything. She is the star of story time and keeps her teacher and classmates on the edge of their seats with her “absolutely true” stories. But what about her classmates? Do they have stories good enough to share?
Category: Juvenile Fiction – Humorous Stories / Kids Book for Ages 7-10 years
- Lois Lowry

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Gooney Bird and the Room Mother (book)
Gooney Bird Greene likes to be right smack in the middle of everything. That’s why she wants to have the lead role of Squanto in her class Thanksgiving pageant. But that role will go to whoever finds someone to be the room mother. All the parents are so busy, no one can bring cupcakes to the play. Gooney Bird Greene to the rescue! She finds a room mother alright, but promises not to tell who it is until the day of the play. Now the kids are really busy getting ready for the show. But will the mystery room mother really show up?
Category: Juvenile Fiction – Humorous Stories
- Lois Lowry

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TRIBUTE TO THE DC-3 (Poem)
In fifty-one they tried to ground the noble DC-3
And some lawyers brought the case before the C.A.B.
The board examined all the facts behind their great oak portal
And pronounced these simple words “The Gooney Birds Immortal”

The Army toast their Sky Train in lousy scotch and soda
The Tommies raise their glasses high to cheer their old Dakota
Some claim the C-47′s best, or the gallant R4D
Forget that claim, their all the same, they’re the noble DC-3.

Douglas built the ship to last, but nobody expected
This crazy heap would fly and fly, no matter how they wrecked it
While nations fall and men retire, and jets go obsolete
The Gooney Bird flies on and on at eleven thousand feet.

No matter what they do to her the Gooney Bird still flies
One crippled plane was fitted out with one wing half the size
She hunched her shoulders then took off (I know this makes you laugh)
One wing askew, and yet she flew, the DC-3 and a half.

She had her faults, but after all, who’s perfect in every sphere?
Her heating system was a gem we loved her for her gear
Of course the windows leaked a bit when the rain came pouring down
She’d keep you warm, but in a storm, it’s possible you’d drown.

Well now she flies the feeder lines and carries all the freight
She’s just an airborne office, a flying twelve ton crate
The patched her up with masking tape, with paper clips and strings
And still she flies, she never dies, Methuselah with wings.
- author unknown

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Gooney Bird (joke)
After many years of marriage, a husband has turned into a couch potato, became completely inattentive to his wife and sat guzzling beer and watching TV all day. The wife was dismayed because no matter what she did to attract the husband’s attention, he’d just shrug her off with some bored comment.

This went on for many months and the wife was going crazy with boredom. Then one day at a pet store, the wife saw this big, ugly, snorting bird with a hairy chest, powerful hairy forearms, beady eyes and dribble running down the side of its mouth.

The shopkeeper, observing her fascination with the bird, told her it was a special imported “Goony bird” and it had a very peculiar trait. To demonstrate, he exclaimed, “Goony bird! The table!”

Immediately, the Goony bird flew off its perch and with single-minded fury attacked the table and smashed it into a hundred little pieces with its powerful forearms and claws! To demonstrate some more, the shopkeeper said, “Goony bird! The shelf!”

Again the Goony bird turned to the shelf and demolished it in seconds.

“Wow!” said the wife, “If this doesn’t attract my husband’s attention, nothing will!” So she bought the bird and took it home.

When she entered the house, the husband was, as usual, sprawled on the sofa guzzling beer and watching the game. “Honey!” she exclaimed, “I’ve got a surprise for you! A Goony bird!”

The husband, in his usual bored tone replied, “Goony Bird, my foot!”
- Source Animal Jokes, Humor, Satire And Humorous Anecdotes

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Famous Bird Quotes – A

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Famous Bird Quotes

Red-billed Quelea flocking around a waterhole

Red-billed Quelea flocking around a waterhole

Birds(any) Quotes*

 

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(Through the night) a great many kinds of birds perch on a tree but in the morning they fly in all the ten directions. Why should we lament for that?
- Chanakya

 

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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don’t slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
- Pablo Neruda

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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

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A hundred standing people smiling and talking to one another, nodding like gooney birds.
- William Cole

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A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.
- Charles Dickens

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A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
- James Dent

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Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
- Dilbert – Character created by Scott Adams.

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All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
- Bible

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Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl).
- Chanakya

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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
- Bible

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And while I at length debate and beat the bush, There shall step in other men and catch the birds
- Proverb

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Bird in the Name

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Bird nicknames – Bird names for birds and non-birds

Albatross

Northern Royal Albatross: Have you seen this bird?

Gooney bird

  • A common name for the pictured bird.
  • A popular “brand name” for the drug LSD in the 1980s.
  • A rock band from Minneapolis, MN that formed in the mid 80′s.
  • A nickname for the C-47 Skytrain war airplane.

Looney Bird

  • Looney Bird was a singer and one of 12 band members of The Rock-afire Explosion, which was an animatronic robot band. It played in Showbiz Pizza Place restaurants from 1980 to 1991. Only Looney Bird’s head ever showed. He was supposedly hiding in an oil drum.

Jail Birds

  • Jail Birds was a 1914 American silent short film directed by Sydney Ayres starring William Garwood and Charlotte Burton.

Silly Bird Records

  • This record company was started in 1993 as inferred from their weird website www.sillybirdrecords.comThis is a prominent avant rock label?

Free Bird

A popular song played by Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Big Bird

Big Bird is a full-body Muppet, featured on the children’s television show Sesame Street, which airs on PBS. He is sometimes referred to as “Bird” by his friends. His first appearance was November 10, 1969. He also has a private jet called “the bigger bird”.
Click Here for a picture of this Fake Bird.

Larry Bird

Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is a former American NBA basketball player and coach. Drafted into the NBA sixth overall by the Boston Celtics in 1978. Larry started at small forward and power forward for thirteen seasons, teaming with center Robert Parish and forward Kevin McHale. Because of back problems, Bird retired as a player from the NBA in 1992. Bird was voted to the NBA’s 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996 and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998.
Click here for a few Larry Bird quotes.

Snow Bird(s)

Some residents in warm winter states are ‘snow birds’ who only stay during the winter months although most of the population from these states are full time. Example is Hemet California where there are lots of “snow birds”.

Edwin Birdsong

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What a queer bird

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What a queer bird

An old poem

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sometimes called a Gooney Bird

Name this bird

What a queer bird is a poem from the nineteenth century or before. It is sometimes attributed to Ogden Nash but has been around long before him. It has also been set to music, in round form, and is sung in several Youtube videos. The words are as follows:


What a queer bird, the frog are
When he sit he stand (almost)
When he walk he fly (almost)
When he talk he cry (almost)
He ain’t got no sense, hardly
He ain’t got no tail, neither, hardly
He sit on what he ain’t got hardly

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What a queer bird

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