#Paul Parrot

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This is my happy place. Thank you for posting. Glad I thought to search for Fabuland.

Thinking about Lego Fabuland from 1979-1989.

[nevereverywhere]

The Beatles and a parrot, A Mad Day Out, 1968

[theperrylleluniverse]

Perry is so annoying LOL

[eros-ghoulette]

I'm sure y'all know Blu from the film Rio and that he couldn't fly

Well, this is Paul

Paul can't fly either. He never learned how and is probably too scared to. So he sits on shoulders whenever he gets the chance

[joehawley-dancesto-yoursong]

I saw this blog and immediately knew it was you.

Joe should dance to Temporary Secretary by Paul McCartney

Joe Hawley is dancing to Temporary Secretary - Paul McCartney

[goalieflashflight]

Do you ever wonder if Paul named his baby sister Polly because he loved birds so much? Because I do, then I break down.

[rachelkaser]

Masonry Monday: The Case of the Perjured Parrot

A wealthy investor is murdered while at his fishing getaway, with the only apparent witness being his parrot, who repeats the same name over and over. Taking this to be a repetition of his final words, the sheriff arrests Ellen, the dead man's secret mistress, but Perry Mason has his suspicions about the bird's credibility.

Who's Who

Perry Mason's client: Ellen Monteith, a librarian recently married to a man who, to her shock, already has a wife

The victim: Charles Sabin, a wealthy man who's harsh on everyone except his mistress and his talkative parrot

Suspects: Stephanie Sabin, the victim's legitimate wife, who's left to clean up following his death Helen Watkins, the victim's step-daughter, who may or may not have committed a serious crime Richard Waid, the long-suffering secretary, who shifts loyalties to the missus after the murder Fred Bascomb, the cabin's owner, who came across the body and the chattering parrot Casanova, the Sabin family parrot, who apparently witnesses his final moments and repeats his last words over and over

The Setup

Charles Sabin returns home from a trip and completely blows off his wife Stephanie in favor of fawning over his parrot, Casanova (who has been "a very busy bird," according to the man himself). He retrieves an envelope with his wife's name on its from a drawer in his desk. He calls in his secretary, Richard Waid, just to snarl at him for not taking proper care of Casanova. He leaves instructions for Waid to procure some mineral rights, then tells Stephanie and her daughter Helen Watkins that he's decided to drive to his fishing cabin a day early. The ladies aren't packed, and Helen snarls right back at Sabin.

Sabin accuses her of being a thief, and Stephanie refuses to go with him if he's going to attack Helen. Sometime later, a fancy man in a bolo tie drives up to Bascomb Lodge and Cottages in Logan City. He approaches a cabin where a convertible is parked and hears a parrot squawk through the window. Looking through the window, he sees Sabin's body on the ground, with Casanova's cage open and shavings all over the floor. The parrot is walking around the body, repeating, "Helen, give me that gun! Don't shoot!"

In the offices of Perry Mason, Della and Perry are visited by Stephanie Sabin and Helen Watkins. Stephanie tells Perry -- who'd been handling some of Sabin's business affairs -- that a Mr. Bascomb found her husband's body that morning at his fishing cabin. Helen blurts out that she'll be suspected due to Casanova's repeated words. Perry asks when the murder was committed, and Stephanie says they suspect the previous Tuesday. Sabin left for the cabin on Saturday, and Stephanie took Helen to her school, Hollymount, the next day. Stephanie herself stayed in a hotel that same night as she planned to divorce Sabin. Helen didn't stay in school but followed her to the hotel. There's no record of her at the hotel until Wednesday.

Enter Perry Mason, Attorney at Law

Perry and Della drive out to Logan City to meet with Sheriff Barnes, introducing himself as the late Sabin's lawyer on instruction from the widow. The Sheriff introduces Edward Langley, a criminology professor at Logan City's college, who's helping out with the investigation. Perry enters the cabin, where Casanova is chattering away in the cage, repeating the line about Helen. The gun was laying near the body with no fingerprints. The Sheriff and Langley estimate, based on the fish he'd caught and the fact they weren't cleaned, that he was killed Tuesday morning after eating lunch.

They also found a woman's slip and a pair of stockings, which Mrs. Sabin denies belonging to her or to Helen. Perry picks up a book on the side and notes it's from the Logan City Library. There's a knock, and Waid arrives to retrieve Casanova and Sabin's belongings. Langley asks where Waid was on Tuesday -- he was in Denver dealing with the mineral rights. Waid says Sabin called from a payphone as the line was dead, which Langley confirms by picking up the phone. Perry takes his leave and meets Della, who's feeding wildlife outside.

While looking at birds with her, Perry notes a wire on the phone lines -- someone's tapped Sabin's phone. They follow the wire into the foliage, where it leads to a empty, ramshackle cabin. Cut to the Logan City Library, where Ellen Monteith is reading about the murder in the papers. Perry and Della pull up, and Perry greets Ellen, asking her about the book he found in Sabin's cabin. Ellen's obviously distressed, and asks to speak with Perry alone. She confirms she took the book and asks to meet him in the park.

In the park, Ellen tells Perry her story of moving out West and suddenly finding love in the form of "George Walman," a.k.a. Charles Sabin. They met at the library, and Ellen describes him as the kindest person she knew. They married two weeks previously in a quiet ceremony in Las Vegas. Ellen left behind the slip, stockings, and gun, which she owned for protection while closing the library at night. Sabin left on Saturday morning, and she never saw or heard from him again. Della arrives and says Paul is checking on any calls made from Sabin's cabin. Ellen asks if she'll be suspected, and Perry says, "Yes."

The Murder

Prosecutor Sprague brings Ellen Monteith and Fred Bascomb, the gentleman with the bolo tie, into this office and asks Ellen if she's ever seen Bascomb before. She says she never has. After she's escorted out, Bascomb confirms that he saw her driving up to Sabin's cabin on the morning of the murder. Later, Paul enters Perry's office with info: Sabin's will splits the estate between Stephanie and the heretofore-unmentioned brother Arthur Sabin. Also, Helen didn't join her mother at the Windsor Hotel on Sunday. She had run away from school and was waitressing in Logan City when her mother found her on Tuesday. Perry suspected as much.

Perry speaks with Stephanie, who thinks Casanova must have been saying, "Ellen." He asks her about Arthur Sabin, and Stephanie says she's never met him. Later, Perry meets with one Rufus Bolding, who says that Sabin called him about forged checks he'd discovered. Sabin sent Bolding, a handwriting expert, the checks and a handwriting sample. Bolding says Sabin suspected Helen, but she's not the forger, which he informed Sabin of on Monday. Sabin said he'd pass along other samples, but Bolding never received them.

Case under review; please return at a later date

[ratatatastic]

"FUCK YEAH." "the condor!" THE CONDOR."

IM SORRY ARE WE CALLING MIKKSY CONDOR

edmonton oilers @ florida panthers game 2 | 6.10.24 (x)

[love-for-carnation]

Our Amazing World of Nature Paul Wonner (1920-2008, American)

[art-portraits]

Deborah Kip, Wife of Sir Balthasar Gerbier, and Her Children

Artists: Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640), Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)

Date: 1629-1630, reworked probably mid 1640s

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

Description

Deborah Kip and four of her children are shown on a terrace elaborately appointed with entwined caryatids that support a bower, a setting that points to the family's elevated status. Their prosperity is also evident in Deborah Kip's elegantly embroidered skirt and lustrous blouse and cap. Perched on her chair is a blue-gray parrot, a symbol of aristocratic wealth and an allusion in Christian art to the Virgin Mary, the perfect mother. As she holds the baby on her lap, son George holds back a curtain; Elizabeth, dressed entirely in black, is serene and composed; and Susan rests her arms on her mother's knee and returns our gaze. Despite the elegant setting and the bravura brushwork, Rubens controlled the composition so that the tender relationship between the mother and her children remains the focus.

Rubens initially painted the family group at the core of the composition on a vertical rectangular central piece of canvas, to which he - perhaps while still in England - added strips on all four sides in preparation for the almost square final composition. When Rubens returned to Antwerp in April 1630, he took the still - unfinished family portrait with him. The painting, which remained in his possession, was probably completed by Jacob Jordaens after Rubens's death in 1640. An expanded copy from the Rubens workshop, one that Balthasar Gerbier almost certainly commissioned for his personal collection, is in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.

[tomoleary]

Norman Mills Price (1877-1951) “Lady Walking a Borzoi”

Norman Mills Price “Violinist Admired by Women at Party”

Norman Mills Price “The Whistling Cat” (1931)

Norman Mills Price “Paul Revere Riding on Horseback” (1930)

Norman Mills Price "The Great God Pan"

Norman Mills Price "A fit comrade for a woman who supposedly had sold her soul to Satan” Story illustration for "Men Hate Cats - Why?"

Norman Mills Price “The Happy Parrot” (1928)

Norman Mills Price “Captain Death II” Liberty Magazine illustration (1928)

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I love talking to my brother. we were waiting for our parents to come back from doing something and got bored so we just started doing this thing where I would give him a brief analysis of a hatchetfield character, and he'd give me one of a character from the lifesteal smp

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A Red-Crowned Parrot. 

Photo © Heather Paul / Flickr

[theperrylleluniverse]

Oh shucks don’t be so squeamish

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[noirgasmweetheart]

I wasted time I should've spent organizing and made this test instead.