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#1: Katydid (kmeifert) on Nov 4, 2007 [SPOILER]

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Excellent small puzzle. I'm impressed.

Beautiful! :-)

Nice job! I guessed the type of bird before the title was revealed and it's not even a bird that is native or seen in my area.

Aw, my mom used to sing me that song. Neat puzzle.

Nicely done Marz. A lovely picture and a nifty little puzzle. Very enjoyable and happy.

Thank you so very much! :D

Great picture, how do you say that?

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Which I learned in elementary school too.

I googled it. It seems to have been originally written in 1920 to help raise funds for a camp ground for the "Girl Guides" which is the Australian branch of the "Girl Scouts". It seems to have spread internationally through the scouting organizations and is at least as well known in the US and UK as in Australia.

Of course, neither kookaburras nor gum trees are particularly well known in the US. As a child I had all sorts of weird notions about what this laughing creature in the trees might be, and I always sung the song as "oakum tree" (not that oakum grows on trees).

Which explains why I learned this song in Girl Scouts. Thank you. :)

May I ask you Jan how you came to be familiar with the word "oakum" as a child?

I lovely happy song Marz. Thank you. ^>^

I have no idea. I didn't know what it was, just that there was such a word. I suppose I thought it was something southerner's eat, like okra. Dunno what I would have thought if I'd heard it right. Probably a tree with sticks of Wriggley's Spearmint Gum growing on it.

Cute pic, great puzzle :o) thanks

lol Jan that's very funny. As a kid I thought Wriggley's gum DID grow on trees. And oddly enough, my misunderstanding arose from a song. I've always been gullible.

My Dad's side of the family are southerners and they do eat okra and they can keep it as far as I'm concerned. It's a texture thing for me. And no offense to those who love it and prefer okra as a thickener for clear sauces (use cornstarch JC!) ;p
I'm sure there are plenty of things that I eat that many people don't like. Wonder what oakum tastes like?

Boiled okra-- slimy, nasty, and gross

Fried okra-- YUM!!!

I hereby bequeath all of my fried okra to one Theresa Richardson, aka Arduinna the Boar Goddess originally from Oklahoma (not to be confused with the Boar Goddess from Kansas).
Executed this day, November 13, 2007 in the city of Pacifica.

With my appreciation. ^>^

Your loss! :-p

Perhaps, but hopefully your gain. ;D

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There are new Dr. Who episodes?

I mean new as opposed to Tom Baker or Jon Pertwee episodes! I'm actually just getting through the ones the BBC has been making for the last few years. There was one with a little girl who was trapping people in her drawings, and she and her mother sang the song. I immediately remembered hearing about the song on webpbn!

Ah. Last I heard they decided to skip a season or some such silly thing and there was a Dr. Who drought going on, so I was wondering if there had been some alleviation of that.

I hear David Tennent is gone. (I haven't gotten to the end of whatever his last season was.) And there's going to be an 11th Doctor. I do believe one of the doctors once said he could only regenerate 12 times. They may have to change their story soon!

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Yes Kristen, I did, that's why I didn't do another, haha, I was going to another when I was doing a puzzle for everyone, there were a few k names that I missed I think, and I didn't want to do you as a kookaburra, even though they are pretty cool.

Great puzzle.

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