Frosty Shaking Its Tail Feather

Alex

So - I posted Snowball the parrot, the subject of a very scientific experiment to see if birds can dance. But Snowball might well just have two left claws when compared to a bird named Frosty.

Here's a clip of Frosty the parrot shaking its tail feather to Ray Charles and the Blues Brothers' Twist It (Shake Your Tail Feather): Link [embedded YouTube clip, video by Karla K. Larsson)


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I think the remarkable thing about Snowball was that he/she seemed to be genuinely dancing to the music, and that it was a spontaneous, untrained behavior. They changed the music on Snowball and he/she followed the rhythm.

This bird seems not only trained, but coached from off-camera.
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I see that now the dinosaurs have evolved the ability to dance. Now all they need to do is learn how to get me a beer from the fridge.

@Larfin

I accidently trip the auto mod all the time, don't worry about it.
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I posted it on Facebook, and I got this reply:

Eran Hadas (friends with Keren Katz) also commented on Keren Katz's photo.
Eran wrote: "Nicholas, the writing on the armor is unclear, but using some visual imagination, the letters might add up to say: "His actions are not forgiven until he has won."
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When the Star Wars stuff came to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts (I know), we got a close up of a lot of stuff.

LOTS of hebrew all over the various props, not just vader.

The most common line was "starwars l'ad" or Star Wars forever.

And for the record, the last line starts with an Ayin, not a Yod. It spells "Ad." (roughly: until) The word after that looks like "sh'zachah" which means something like "he merits it". I can't read the second line because it's upside-down and poorly pictured on top of that (even when I rotate, having trouble differentiating letters). First line starts with "ein" (which is a negative, depends on the verb after it) and is followed by a present-tense verb that I can't read because the letters are run together and the image is low quality.
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sure looks like hebrew.

the top line i can only make out a few letters clearly.
the middle line looks upside down.
the last line looks like it starts (hebrew reads r-l) with the word "yad", meaning hand.

boosting the argument is that yad is often used as the start of phrases/compound nouns like "hand of _____" and the fact that the letter patterns in all lines look right (words starting with the aleph character, silent vowels and consonants alternated, etc.)
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