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"at Swindon University) is named after the utensil with which The Owl and the Pussycat dine on ""mince and slices of quince"" in a nonsense rhyme by Edward Lear. Detective Inspector Oswald Mandias of Yorkshire CID (the policeman investigating the theft of the Jane Eyre manuscript from the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth) is named after Ozymandias, the eponymous subject of Shelley's 1818 sonnet. The head of JurisFiction. During the events of ""Lost in a Good Book"" and ""The Well of Lost Plots"", this position is filled by an unnamed individual who is only ever referred to by his title."
"The Owl and the Pussycat ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published during 1871 as part of his book ""Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets"". Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term ""runcible"", used for the phrase ""runcible spoon"", was invented for the poem. ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" features four anthropomorphic animals – an owl, a cat, a pig, and a turkey – and tells the story of the love between the title"
"The Owl and the Pussycat (film) The Owl and the Pussycat is a 1970 American romantic comedy film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Barbra Streisand and George Segal. Streisand plays the role of a somewhat uneducated actress, model and part-time prostitute. She temporarily lives with an educated aspiring writer (Segal). Their differences are obvious, yet over time they begin to admire each other. Comedian/actor Robert Klein appears in a supporting role. The screenplay, written by Buck Henry, was based on a stage play by Bill Manhoff. In the stage version, the would-be writer and the would-be actress are the"
"bong trees grow and discover a pig with a ring in his nose in a wood. They buy the ring for a shilling and are married the next day by a turkey. They dine on mince and quince using a ""runcible spoon"", then dance hand-in-hand on the sand in the moonlight. Portions of an unfinished sequel, ""The Children of the Owl and the Pussycat"" were published first posthumously, during 1938. How the pair procreated is unspecified but the children are part fowl and part cat. All love to eat mice. The family live round places with weird names where their"
"mother the cat died falling from a tall tree.This made the Owl become a single parent. The death causes the Owl great sadness. The money is all spent but the Owl still sings to the original guitar. The Owl and the Pussycat ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published during 1871 as part of his book ""Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets"". Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term ""runcible"", used for the phrase"
"#145), in which much is made of Streisand's profanity. At the end, Segal's writer character first throws his typewriter down an embankment, saying that the words he's used as a writer made him sick, then he throws ""her"" over: ""Four-letter words make me even sicker! So long, Foul-Mouth!"" The Owl and the Pussycat (film) The Owl and the Pussycat is a 1970 American romantic comedy film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Barbra Streisand and George Segal. Streisand plays the role of a somewhat uneducated actress, model and part-time prostitute. She temporarily lives with an educated aspiring writer (Segal). Their"
"The Owl and the Pussycat (soundtrack) The Owl and the Pussycat is the soundtrack album to the 1970 American film of the same name. It was released by Columbia Records on December 19, 1970 and features dialogue from the film by Barbra Streisand and George Segal recorded over music performed by American band Blood, Sweat & Tears. The album's five tracks were all written by Buck Henry, produced by Thomas Z. Shepard, and later released by Blood, Sweat & Tears in stripped down instrumental versions on their 2013 compilation album ""Rare, Rarer & Rarest"". An 8-track cartridge edition and cassette"
"apart. During this time the food that the women harvested became less, because they had no tools, while the men grew more and more food. But each group longed for the other. The women sought to satisfy themselves with bones and feathers and long stones. The men tried to relieve their longing with the fresh meat of animals. One man, , tried to satisfy himself using the liver of a deer. Owl called out to him to stop. ""This is wrong,"" Owl said. ""No good can come of this separation. You must bring the men and the women together again."""
"to Oswald that he is hungry, so Oswald agrees to go get him food. Oswald then attempts to bring the captain some soup. However, a duck flies onto the plate and eats the soup. However, the soup makes the duck obese, which means that the duck cannot fly away. The duck tries though, but nevertheless falls off the plate and onto the floor. Once Oswald realises that the duck ate the soup, he comically squeezes it back into the bowl from the duck. After that, the duck bits on Oswald's tail. This makes the bowl fly into the air and"
"""a delightful rondo of sex and death, underpinned by a tart commentary on Japan’s post-war aspirations"". Owl (film) Around 1980, two women, a mother and a daughter, the last occupants of a farming village called ""Kibogaoka"" for Japanese returnees from Manchuria, are slowly starving to death. As one of the women contemplates eating a lizard, the other suggests a better way to survive. They telephone a dam construction site and offer themselves as prostitutes. A worker comes to visit them, has sex with the mother, and then they give him their ""special drink"". This causes him to foam at the"
"on fine china and, according to Cheyenne custom, slept on the ground in soft hides. The furnishings and household goods included items from the United States, Mexico and overseas nations. The children enjoyed pumpkin pie and pancakes made by Charlotte Green, an enslaved cook whose husband was also held by the Bents. Chipita, the French-Mexican wife of a Bent worker, made taffy for the children. She performed housekeeping and laundry services at the fort. Owl Woman's mother Tall Woman taught the children to be respectful and courteous to their elders. They gave discipline by stern glances and waving fingers. In"
"which has no effect, that crow blows the condiment on the rabbit's face. But as Oswald sneezes, the crows have their feathers blown off, therefore eliminating their ability to fly. The crows choose to get away on foot. Oswald resorts to shooting arrows. One of Oswald's arrows unintendedly hits a giant serpent. The provoked serpent heads toward the hippo king's castle. Oswald and the crows hide themselves in the pie. The serpent also enters the dish. The hippo king calls for the pie as it is dinner time. The servants are the ones who carry the dish to him. When"
"Lear's best-known poem, ""The Owl and the Pussycat"", published in 1871, includes the passage: Another mention of this piece of cutlery appears in the alphabetical illustrations ""Twenty-Six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures"". Its entry for D reads Lear often illustrated his own poems, and he drew a picture of the ""dolomphious duck"" holding in its beak a round-bowled spoon containing a frog. Lear does not appear to have had any firm idea of what the word ""runcible"" means. His whimsical nonsense verse celebrates words primarily for their sound, and a specific definition is not needed to appreciate his work. However, since"
"presumably several more unknown from their relatively little-studied populations in the neotropics. Mammals (more than 200 species) and birds (nearly 300 species) make up the majority of their diet. Their diet in North America is made up of 87.6% mammals, 6.1% birds, 1.6% reptiles and amphibians with the remaining 4.7% being made up by insects, other assorted invertebrates and fish. Estimated mass of individual prey for the owls has ranged from as little as to as much as Most prey is the range of (shrews) to (jackrabbits). A single owl requires about of food per day and can subsist on"
"the two are left wondering if they would ever get back. They begin walking on the rocky Martian surface. On the way, they see a giant sipping soup and gobbling explosives. Because of the giant's hostile nature, Oswald and the big beagle try to flee, only to unknowingly run into the bore of a huge cannon. The cannon shoots them airborne and they land in the giant's soup bowl. The giant is surprised to see the two visitors in his bowl. Nevertheless, he becomes obliged to gobble them as he scoops up Oswald and the big beagle with his spoon."
"mammals. Their diet appeared varied in the winter, and was less tied to one mammal than was the long-earred owl; at times, Northern Saw-whet owls hunted larger prey, such as the meadow vole (M. pennsylvanicus). Other mammals preyed on occasionally include shrews, squirrels (largely chipmunks and red squirrels), various other mice species, flying squirrels, moles and bats. Also supplementing the diet are small birds, with passerines such as swallows, sparrows, kinglets and chickadees favored. However, larger birds, up to the size of rock pigeon (which are typically about 4 times as heavy as a saw-whet) can even be taken. On"
"Owl (film) Around 1980, two women, a mother and a daughter, the last occupants of a farming village called ""Kibogaoka"" for Japanese returnees from Manchuria, are slowly starving to death. As one of the women contemplates eating a lizard, the other suggests a better way to survive. They telephone a dam construction site and offer themselves as prostitutes. A worker comes to visit them, has sex with the mother, and then they give him their ""special drink"". This causes him to foam at the mouth, emit animal noises, and then die. They cart his body off and celebrate getting his"
"fruits eaten include oranges and sometimes grapes. In some locations, they may be seen using hummingbird feeders. These birds will readily come to a dish filled with grape jelly. Their parents lead the fledglings, feed them jelly and then the adult males leave the area. The young stay at the jelly dish from first feeding in early July and leave late September. A member of the northern oriole group, Bullock's orioles were once considered to be conspecific with Baltimore orioles and black-backed orioles. However, recent phylogenetic data suggest that Bullock's orioles are members of a distinct species that does not"
"traps with radio collars in their beds. However, the bears note the ""chemical"" smell of their organic porridge and, suspicious, discover the traps as well as Goldilocks, who has fallen asleep in the corner of the room while waiting for her targets to return. The Papa Bear and Mama Bear then brutally kill and consume Goldilocks while the shocked Baby Bear looks on; it is revealed that the family is vegetarian, though the parents made an exception this time. This parody is based on the classic Snow White fairy tale, with numerous satirical twists (for example, the Seven Dwarfs, who"
"The Owl and the Nightingale The Owl and the Nightingale is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century Middle English poem detailing a debate between an owl and a nightingale as overheard by the poem's narrator. It is the earliest example in Middle English of a literary form known as debate poetry (or verse contest). Verse contests from this time period were usually written in Anglo-Norman or Latin. This poem shows the influence of French linguistic, literary, and rhetorical techniques. After the Norman conquest, French became a predominant language in England, but English was still widespread and recognized as an acceptable language for"
"issues. In Ossie Davis' ""Purlie Victorious"" and the musical ""Purlie"", the issue was racism; In ""Shenandoah"", the issue was war; in ""Sun Flower"", the issue was women's rights; and in ""My Old Friends"", the issue was old age. Rose was an innovator in non-traditional casting too. In 1964, he cast the black actress Diana Sands opposite Alan Alda in the two-character comedy/love story, The Owl and the Pussycat. When fellow producer Alexander Cohen requested that the script be rewritten for Diana Sands, Philip Rose stated, ""She's doing it exactly as it is written — a woman who falls in love."""
"Jay's penis. While Jay rants about how monkeys may eventually destroy humanity and rule the world, Bob ends up bonding with Suzanne. The three of them become hungry, and Jay decides to grab something to eat. Meanwhile, Big Dog and his team of wildlife marshals get a tip that the monkey is at an Indiana diner. At said diner, Jay, Bob, and Suzanne eat some grub. The wildlife marshals surround the diner and demand the release of Suzanne. Jay, Bob, and Suzanne (disguised as a kid) decide to come out. Big Dog falls for their disguise, until he smells bananas."
"take arboreal prey from tree boles and limbs. They do occasionally hunt during the day. Although diet varies with location, the majority consists of a few mammalian species. Species taken most often are northern flying squirrels (which may comprise more than 30% of total prey) and woodrats (the most common prey overall), including dusky-footed, bushy-tailed, (""N. cinerea""), and Mexican woodrats (""N. mexicana""). In some portions of its range, much of the spotted owl's diet is composed of several other mammals such as deer mice (""Peromyscus maniculatus""), pocket gophers (""Thomomys"" spp.), voles (""Microtus"", ""Clethrionomys"", and ""Phenocomys"" spp.), snowshoe hares (""Lepus americanus""),"
"""The Owl and the Pussycat"", which Potter would illustrate in 1897. Potter also used elements of Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"" and her own stories about her pet pigs. While writing ""The Tale of Little Pig Robinson"", Potter drew some of her first drawings in her journal, including character sketches and literary portraits. The book was initially rejected by the publisher Frederick Warne & Co. due to its length and lack of illustrations—a result of the story's division into chapters. The story was first published in September 1930 in Britain by Frederick Warne & Co. and in America by David McKay"
"owls have including lesser whistling duck (""Dendrocygna javanica"") and Indian pond heron (""Ardeola grayii""). One unusual prey item recorded was a long monitor lizard. Competition may occur between this species and Pallas's fish eagles (""Haliaeetus leucoryphus"") as well as dusky eagle owls (""B. coromandus""), but the brown fish owl is more terrestrial than the fish eagle and consumes more invertebrates than either of those species, the eagle feeding mainly on fish followed by water birds and the eagle owl feeding mainly on mammals followed by land birds. If hungry, brown fish owls will scavenge carrion, a rare behavior for owls."
"the poem, which is recited by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice. Walking upon a beach one night when both sun and moon are visible, the Walrus and Carpenter come upon an offshore bed of oysters. Groups of four are called up; the exact number is unknown. To the disapproval of the eldest oyster, many more follow them. After walking along the beach (a point is made of the fact that the oysters are all neatly shod despite having no feet), the two main characters are revealed to be predatory and eat all of the oysters. After hearing the poem, the"
"he has a hunger attack and ends up eating the honey. He decides to ask Owl for advice. Owl suggests that he writes to Eeyore on the pot so that Eeyore could use it to put things in. Owl ends up writing a misspelled greeting (""hipy papy bthuthdth thuthda bthuthdy"" means A Very Happy Birthday, With Love from Pooh) on the pot and flies off to tell Christopher Robin about the birthday. Piglet, who heard about Eeyore's birthday from Pooh, planned to give a red balloon to Eeyore, but when Owl greets him from the sky, Piglet forgets to look"
"including an International Owl and Pussycat Day on his birth anniversary. In 1846 Lear published "","" a volume of limericks which went through three editions and helped popularize the form and the genre of literary nonsense. In 1871 he published ""Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets"", which included his most famous nonsense song, ""The Owl and the Pussycat,"" which he wrote for the children of his patron Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby. Many other works followed. Lear's nonsense books were quite popular during his lifetime, but a rumour developed that ""Edward Lear"" was merely a pseudonym, and the books'"
"the gray-bellied night monkey, also known as the owl monkey: “Owl monkeys are frugivores and supplement their diet with flowers, insects, nectar, and leaves (Wright 1989; 1994). They prefer small, ripe fruit when available and in order to find these, they forage in large-crown trees (larger than ten meters [32.8 ft]) (Wright 1986). Seasonal availability of fruit varies across environments. Aotus species in tropical forests eat more fruit throughout the year because it is more readily available compared to the dry forests where fruit is limited in the dry season and owl monkeys are more dependent on leaves.” Because seed"
"is limited. The Owl and the Nightingale The Owl and the Nightingale is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century Middle English poem detailing a debate between an owl and a nightingale as overheard by the poem's narrator. It is the earliest example in Middle English of a literary form known as debate poetry (or verse contest). Verse contests from this time period were usually written in Anglo-Norman or Latin. This poem shows the influence of French linguistic, literary, and rhetorical techniques. After the Norman conquest, French became a predominant language in England, but English was still widespread and recognized as an acceptable"
"catching the snake eating her 297th egg that year (she does not work on Sundays), Mrs. Crow requests that Mr. Crow go into the hole and kill the snake. Thinking better of it, Mr. Crow confers with his wise friend, Mr. Owl. Mr. Owl bakes mud into two stone eggs and paints them to resemble Mrs. Crow's eggs. These dummy eggs are left in the nest to trick the Rattlesnake, who unknowingly eats them the next day. When the eggs get to his stomach, they cause the Rattlesnake such pain, that he thrashes about, tying himself in knots around the"
"crayfish called an acocil, and a great variety of insects, larvae and insect eggs. They also domesticated turkeys, duck and dogs as food and at times ate meat from larger wild animals such as deer, but none of these were a major part of their diet. They ate various mushrooms and fungi, including the parasitic corn smut, which grows on ears of corn. Squash (also known as Cucurbita) was very popular and came in many different varieties. Squash seeds, fresh, dried or roasted, were especially popular. Tomatoes, though different from the varieties common today, were often mixed with chili in"
"The mussel then steals Mickey's sandwich and a full pepper shaker which causes the mussel to sneeze thus freeing itself from Pluto's mouth. The mussel bounces around sneezing and wakes up a seagull that decides to eat the mussel. The sneezing mussel escapes the seagull by entering the sea. The hungry seagull steals the hot dog that Mickey is feeding Pluto instead. The seagull then sets his sights on the fish bait Mickey is using and unsuccessfully attempts to steal the fish while the line is being cast. Dejected but determined, the seagull then sits on top of Mickey's hat"