So tonight I was chillin' in the back yard drinkin' beer and rhapsodizin' on biodiversity

[XemaSab]

and at THAT VERY MOMENT a bird crapped ALL OVER MY HEAD.

Purple.

It was purple.

What could it all mean? :shrug:

[Muttocracy]

1. Some parts of the circle of life are not as pretty :)

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Catbird.

Eating mulberries. I'll just betcha.

[MrMonk]

5. Same thought, here.

[XemaSab]

7. House Finch

eating blackberries. :D

[Green Mountain Dem]

3. Did the bird.....

come from the vicinity of the vinyard? It had to be a PeeNoMore or what the French call a Pinot Noir!!

[RazBerryBeret]

4. ooh, is it black berry season?

yeah, we get the purple stuff on our deck.
but I've never had a bird actually hit me with the stuff...
luck or really good aim! pretty funny!

[shraby]

20. Yup, it's blackberry season..mulberries are done.

[Catch22Dem]

6. LOL, fuckin' rhapsodizin'

I absolutely HAVE to work that word into conversation at work tomorrow.

[Lint Head]

8. Purle rain Purple rain.

:woohoo:

[stuntcat]

31. pbft!!

:rofl: :headbang:

[Cleita]

9. If you are a person who pays any attention to the outdoors, you have got

to know and figure out the birds' favorite roosts, the ones they like to crap from. Don't put your chaise lounge or hammock under it.

[XemaSab]

11. I've been sitting under the birch tree for YEARS

I've been hit once before, and had one near miss.

The gods were frowning on me. :cry:

[Cleita]

15. But sometimes the birdies change their habits.

If they are taking it over as a roost, that means they like it as much as you do, unfortunately brdsht is part of the problem. Perhaps you can discourage them, gently of course, so that they find another roost. Call up some local birders in your area. They will be able to advise you.

[XemaSab]

18. It's been their roost for years

I think it's just that something is in season that they're eating and crapping. x(

[Cleita]

26. Okay. I guess you know where you want to drink your beer.n/t

[mike_c]

10. blackberry season....

:rofl:

[XemaSab]

12. And the worst part is

I was rhapsodizin' on insect biodiversity.

So you can shut the hell up. x(

[XemaSab]

17. And the real insult:

We were going to put peanuts in the stir fry, but there were WEASELS in the peanuts!

I just want to nuke the earth.

I'm going to go vote for McCain. x(

[Sal Minella]

23. Way to go.

That'll show 'em. Stupid animals anyway.
:sarcasm:

[Nihil]

37. Ummm ... ?

> We were going to put peanuts in the stir fry,
> but there were WEASELS in the peanuts!

Was that WEASELS ...



... or WEEVILS ...


...?

Inquiring minds and all that ... :shrug:

[XemaSab]

38. Does it really matter?

Either way we weren't going to eat them. :P

[Nihil]

39. Just curious :-)

"Pa! Git yor shotgun! Those pesky weasels have got in the peanuts agin!"

(And thanks for the laugh from reading about your encounter with
the purple people pooper ...)
:hi:

[Dead_Parrot]

13. It means the elk has finally tracked you down...

...and hired some muscle. Be afraid.

[XemaSab]

22. The elk?

:shrug:

[Dead_Parrot]

27. The one with the replaced "soil" sample

:hide:

[XemaSab]

30. Hey, the elk was in on the joke

Pat, my fellow soils student... notsomuch.

[2Design]

14. some societies for some occasions think that is a good thing n/t

[jobycom]

16. Means you shouldn't finish that beer.

[XemaSab]

21. Actually, I fibbed.

By that point I had moved to wine, and YES, some got in the wine.

I'm Irish; throwing out alcohol is a SIN.

x(

[Sal Minella]

24. The alcohol would kill any germs, so no problem. nt

[XemaSab]

25. It was one of those 1.5 liter bottles

I chucked it and got some more. :shrug:

Though I may be Irish, I'm also a wine purist. Blackberries in the Pinot Grigiot ain't cool unless the vintner says it's cool.

[Sal Minella]

29. Gotcha.

This ain't Viet Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

[jobycom]

28. Well, same color, so no problem.

:)

[Greyskye]

34. Then you know what happens to you when you die.

You get lowered, head first, into a barrel of all the alcohol that you spilled over the course of your life. And if you drown, then to hell with you!

:evilgrin: :beer: :evilgrin:

[stillcool]

19. it's never happened to me..

but I've heard it's good luck!

[stuntcat]

32. It was Love..

That's what it means! He wanted you to feel even closer to the nature.

[GliderGuider]

33. How Birds See the World

[XemaSab]

35. UPDATE: Tonight I was talking about inbreeding in dogs

AND A MOURNING DOVE SHIT ALL OVER ME! :o

[bananas]

36. You need an umbrella.

or a cat.

[XemaSab]

40. Update: I moved my chair over two feet

and I've been crapped on 5 times in the last 36 hours.

I moved my chair back, and hopefully things will be less... messy.

[Nihil]

41. You're obviously encouraging them ...

... give them a challenge and it becomes a sport; get yourself
an umbrella and the target is so easy they'll probably give up!

Either that or start wearing purple ... :-)

[bananas]

42. Share some beer with them

Put some Blue-Berry Beer in the bird bath.
They'll either like you, or not be able to aim so well.