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I can’t decide if this is “deep soul” or “no soul.”
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https://www.worldowltrust.org/images/source/BBEO154__D__Barn_owl.jpg

What does owl taste like? They ate so many weird things in the middle ages/Tudor times, I’m sure they ate owl, too.

Barn owls are very spooky looking to me,
but it is a very lovely sort of spooky.

Edit: I had originally said “weird looking”
but Ric Fan fairly grabbed that word first.

I like owls. But remember they tried to pin that murder on the staircase on an owl? LOL

Riding my bicycle across the “Experimental Prairie” on the Rice U campus late at night lo these many years ago, I was swooped upon by a Great Horned Owl. Wingspan must have been 5 feet, it passed about a yard above and in front of me. Cool. The Univeristy mascot? Great Horned Owl!

Many years ago, we lived in the country in KS and had several BIG rotties and a rottie pup. Pup was about 40#, big dogs were each over 120#. We were sitting out in the hot tub one night late when a large owl flew in and sat on top of the light pole in the yard. Dogs ran out to it barking. Big owl flew off the pole and touched done on the pup’s back. Pup was a bit bigger than the owl realized and so it flew off, leaving several deep punctures on the pups back from the claws. Owls are lovely to look at but they are vicious predators.

Cain’t decide if this poat made by real S. Weasel.
Thumb is ambiguous.
Fingernails a match.

Some site Uncle B was reading mentioned that the space station was about to go over. We ran outside on a whim, and it was something else. I mean, we’ve seen the thing go over: little dot, moving fast, whatever. Somehow, it especially caught the sun last night. For a couple of minutes, it looked downright Biblical.

I miss this so much. When Husband and I lived on Canyon Lake in the Hill Country, watching for the ISS flyover was a favorite treat for me. I especially loved the pre-dawn flyovers. We were on a hill, high above the lake so it was usually easy to see. There’s too much in the way now, for me to see it at my house in San Antonio. (I live on a corner; I could stand in the middle of the intersection, but then I’d be the lead on the 10 o’clock news 🙂 )

Here’s a link to sign up for alerts: https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/signup.cfm

If you have children or grandchildren at home, this is an excellent event to teach them about azimuth and elevation. And speed.

“What does owl taste like? ” @Ric Fan

Well, to quote an old hunting joke “it tastes like a cross between bald eagle and golden cheeked warbler”.

Actually the joke used “spotted owl” (endangered) in place of golden cheeked warbler.

To prove RF’s point
http://nerdalicious.com.au/history/curious-morsels-from-a-tudor-kitchen/
Stewed Sparrows – nom nom nom.

If you like wings, and I do, owl would be great!

@ClerkofOxford
I love the Old English name for August, ‘Weodmonað’ – Bede says it means ‘the month of weeds, because they are very plentiful then’!

“With lecherous howls
I deflower young owls!”
( — attributed to John Steinbeck, while drunk, probably)

“With lecherous howls
I deflower young owls!”
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A good way to get your pecker pecked off.

“with lecherous howls
I deflower young owls
after sipping too deeply
from wine brimming bowls”

Now…I want to know why
“howl” doesn’t rhyme with “bowl”.

Right, you English people, account for this!

Otherwise the verse will be completed with the word
‘Bowels’.
Just think how THAT’S going to be accomplished.

(Full disclosure…here in Tejas, we can make paint rhyme with can’t, and it ain’t by pronouncing paint as pant)

Oh, and, uh DUNKIRK!

Hah! In my part of Pennsylvania, we make “creek” rhyme with “thick”.

And in Virginia we say “abode” to mean a piece of wood, as in “hand me abode to hit dis mule”