Pining for the Feords...What kind of bloomin' talk is that?
lizzzzzzzz
Eye wrote:
>
> What the bloody hell does "Pining for the Feords" mean?!
pining for the FJORDS! Remember, it's a Norweigan Blue (beautiful
plumage!).
When I was little I used to think he was saying "fields." I couldn't
for the life of me imagine what a parrot was doing pining for the
fields.
lizzzzzzz, evidently a silly bunt...
Eye
Bonni Hall
Behold! Eye (scr...@unix.asc.com) did say unto us:
> What the bloody hell does "Pining for the Feords" mean?!
It's "pining for the fjords.." They refer to the parrot as a "Norweigan
Blue." Norway has a lot of fjords (icy inlets of the ocean all around the
seacoast). To pine means "to long for" or "to want."
Her Grace the Prime Minister aka Beautiful plumage!
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Mike
> What the bloody hell does "Pining for the Feords" mean?!
It is a hideously mispelled quote from the greatest MP Sketch ever -- The
Parrot.
You are a great tof and a snofflebody!
So there.
It should be Pining for the FJORDS -- norwegian blues have beautiful
plumage.
This parrot wouldn't voom if you put 10000 Volts through it!
Get off the whippets and live air brain,
(Oh Thought you wanted abuse -- argument two doors down on the left)
Twit.
Aaron Condon
On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Eye wrote:
> What the bloody hell does "Pining for the Feords" mean?!
first a littile background
fijord (feord):
place in a river where it is
possible to cross the river
often seen in norway
pining:
very sad
so we can say that the parrot (a norwegan blue (beautiful plumage))
was homesick. BURMA!
Ivan Heffner
Aaron Condon (ch...@biddeford.com) wrote:
: On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Eye wrote:
: > What the bloody hell does "Pining for the Feords" mean?!
: first a littile background
: fijord (feord):
: place in a river where it is
: possible to cross the river
: often seen in norway
Umm, no. What you have described here is actually a ford. (Not the auto, but
the river crossing). A FJORD (no I's or E's) is a deep cut in a coastline,
most probably made by glaciation. Norway is famous for its abundance of these
features. And some guy won an award for carving them , as I remember. (Oops.
Wrong Newsgroup. I was thinking I was in alt.fan.douglas_arthur.)
: pining:
: very sad
Close. It's more of a longing for something. It's a wanting.
: so we can say that the parrot (a norwegan blue (beautiful plumage))
: was homesick. BURMA!
The plumage doesn't enter into it.
Ivan Heffner aka maibee whee shoold ol gett kree-aytif whith owr sp-hellengs
aka maybe not.
Alan
Aaron Condon (Aaron Condon <ch...@biddeford.com>) writes
>so we can say that the parrot (a norwegan blue (beautiful plumage))
>was homesick. BURMA!
I was just nervous.
alan
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David Teach (d.t...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: scr...@unix.asc.com (Eye) wrote:
: >What the bloody hell does "Pining for the Feords" mean?!
: >
: I take it that this is a legitimate question and I'm not missing a joke or
: a line or something: It is fjords, which are glacier-formed inlets and
: stuff like on the coast of Norway. Pining is longing, homesickness.
And the parrot was a NORWEGIAN Blue....
Particularly funny, 'cause a parrot is a
tropical bird (but unrelated to coconuts,
as far as I know...).