This week’s whimsy is brought to you by fully scientific instructions for Rotating Your Owl.
Lyrics: Rotate your owl for science
In this experiment you will require
One sterilized, standardized, scientificized owl.
Ro-ro-rotate your owl
Ro-ro-rotate your owl
Ro-ro-rotate your owl
Rotate your owl for science
This lab aint for fun so we leave our fun owls at home
This lab is for science so we need a science owl
We get our owls from the shelf over there at the top
With the other birds that we use for science
Yeah, me I prefer a peregrine hawk,
But every now and then you need a bird that can squawk
Yeah hawks are great and eagles too,
But when you’re dropping mad science only owls will do.
Ro-ro-rotate your owl
Ro-ro-rotate your owl
Ro-ro-rotate your owl
Move your owl around until your breeak new ground
Yeah, gimmie and owl I move it up I move it down
I move it side to side I move my owls with pride.
But if you want something more special come see me
I move my owls really professionally.
I paid all paid all my bills for college
By using all my owl rotation knowledge.
Come on y’all stop with the back-chatter
Cause owl-based science is all that matters.
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Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
NB: the weekly whimsy thread is a stoush-free zone
I saw the original owl rotating head thing (sans the song) at a website that I discovered recently, The Kid Should See This. Which I reckon is a cool website and so does my five year old son.
I love Natalie Dee.
That is all.
Oh, and OP — what a hoot!
Practical and whimsical; Whale.Fm: Scientific American’s science crowd-sourcing project to find groupings of similar whale calls. It’s a lot of fun.
Is that a pampas grass pot-plant or are you just pleased to see me?
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/tv-presenter-discovers-pampas-grass-on-balcony-is-a-signal-to-swingers-20111130-1o6b5.html
Furniture store in Victoria, British Columbia… one for the Trekkies
http://youtu.be/cip0TY91sjI
Naw –he’s cuddling a tribble.
Daleks have invaded the CSIRO canteen.
dear all
in the spirit of whale songs & whimsy i offer: “the singing humpbacks”. originally released on cassette tape & lovingly transcribed to mp3 by grey calx at “a closet of curiosities”, these recordings date from the 1960s to 1988 & were recorded at various locations by technicians & scientists under the auspices of an outfit called the marine mammal fund.
yours sincerely
alfred venison