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Very easy quiz this week, and my time would have been so much faster if I was in the office and using a mouse. Instead, I got 22/22 with 2:40 left on the clock using the track pad on my laptop.
All those birds were just beautiful but I voted for Parakeet because it reminds me of my childhood, because we always had parakeets when I was little. We had a lot of them over the years because they always used to die!! And then I would bury them in the backyard because I had a little pet cemetery, where I buried all our pets that died. There was turtles, gerbils, mice, hamsters, birds. And then I would take two popsicle sticks and make a crucifix and put it on top of the grave. But eventually it got dug up when my father built a deck on the back of the house. This was like later after I moved out and I didn’t find out about it right away and I was really pissed off about it!!!
What kind of parakeets did you have?
It reminds me of a family member whose dog ate their rabbits. They had to quickly find replacement rabbits during the school day so their kids didn’t find out.
I have no idea what kind of parakeets they were. I didn’t even know there were different kinds. But they were usually white and blue, or white and green, or white and yellow, and green and yellow. Those are the ones I could remember. I like that one in the poll that was all green and looked just like a parrot. That was really cool.
Good work anyway – it was any easy one this week.
22/22 with 1:55 left. This was easy and I could have done it faster but wanted to get them all so went slower. I think this is my first 100%. YAY!
p.s. Comments were not allowed in the feed, so I came directly to your blogsite.
Thanks for letting me know – looks like there was a temporary issue in the morning, but it came right. There was a core WordPress update the night before, so it might have been connected to that.
That was easy as all fuck. Too bad I didn’t go faster though. I got 22/22 with 1:29 left.
Yup, easy one this week.
Phew, 22/22 with 2:58 left on the timer.
I sat down with the boy and our vote went to the Fiordland crested penguin
Good job, fast time. I’ve never seen a crested penguin before, but they’re pretty cool.
Got ’em all and I tied Tony’s time. Also, I assume you’ve seen John Oliver’s take on the bird thing.
John Oliver is campaigning hard in New Zealand’s Bird of the Century poll
Yup, it’s been all over the news here. The results were supposed to be announced tomorrow, but they’re pushed back a couple of days due to the volume of entries.
How do you feel about his intervention?
It’s good- the more votes the better I think.
He’s pretty obsessed with New Zealand – often mocks it. It is pretty dumb that a bat won recently.
22/22 with 2:06 left. Didn’t beat your time, but still good.
What bird did you vote for?
My favourite is the fernbird for some reason – I’ve never seen one. I have a painting that my wife painted for me when we were dating. I also voted for the weka, the shore plover, the tieke, and I should have voted for the kakapo.
Kakapo are pretty funny – there’s a famous video of one trying to mate with Stephen Fry’s cameraman’s head.
I didn’t. I figured I shouldn’t vote since it isn’t my country.
Perfect score!
Perfect score with 1:55 remaining.
Perfect score!
21/22 with 1:37. For me an all time best! lol
Great work!
I tied your score exactly. And I voted against John Oliver’s fancypants bird. I voted for the Morepork because lol more pork
We have morepork in our yard at night sometimes. We normally call them ruru – the Maori name.
Very easy quiz this week, and my time would have been so much faster if I was in the office and using a mouse. Instead, I got 22/22 with 2:40 left on the clock using the track pad on my laptop.
All those birds were just beautiful but I voted for Parakeet because it reminds me of my childhood, because we always had parakeets when I was little. We had a lot of them over the years because they always used to die!! And then I would bury them in the backyard because I had a little pet cemetery, where I buried all our pets that died. There was turtles, gerbils, mice, hamsters, birds. And then I would take two popsicle sticks and make a crucifix and put it on top of the grave. But eventually it got dug up when my father built a deck on the back of the house. This was like later after I moved out and I didn’t find out about it right away and I was really pissed off about it!!!
What kind of parakeets did you have?
It reminds me of a family member whose dog ate their rabbits. They had to quickly find replacement rabbits during the school day so their kids didn’t find out.
I have no idea what kind of parakeets they were. I didn’t even know there were different kinds. But they were usually white and blue, or white and green, or white and yellow, and green and yellow. Those are the ones I could remember. I like that one in the poll that was all green and looked just like a parrot. That was really cool.
Good work anyway – it was any easy one this week.
22/22 with 1:55 left. This was easy and I could have done it faster but wanted to get them all so went slower. I think this is my first 100%. YAY!
p.s. Comments were not allowed in the feed, so I came directly to your blogsite.
Thanks for letting me know – looks like there was a temporary issue in the morning, but it came right. There was a core WordPress update the night before, so it might have been connected to that.
That was easy as all fuck. Too bad I didn’t go faster though. I got 22/22 with 1:29 left.
Yup, easy one this week.
Phew, 22/22 with 2:58 left on the timer.
I sat down with the boy and our vote went to the Fiordland crested penguin
Good job, fast time. I’ve never seen a crested penguin before, but they’re pretty cool.
Got ’em all and I tied Tony’s time. Also, I assume you’ve seen John Oliver’s take on the bird thing.
John Oliver is campaigning hard in New Zealand’s Bird of the Century poll
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/entertainment/john-oliver-new-zealand-bird-poll-scli-intl
Yup, it’s been all over the news here. The results were supposed to be announced tomorrow, but they’re pushed back a couple of days due to the volume of entries.
How do you feel about his intervention?
It’s good- the more votes the better I think.
He’s pretty obsessed with New Zealand – often mocks it. It is pretty dumb that a bat won recently.
22/22 with 2:06 left. Didn’t beat your time, but still good.
What bird did you vote for?
My favourite is the fernbird for some reason – I’ve never seen one. I have a painting that my wife painted for me when we were dating. I also voted for the weka, the shore plover, the tieke, and I should have voted for the kakapo.
Kakapo are pretty funny – there’s a famous video of one trying to mate with Stephen Fry’s cameraman’s head.
I didn’t. I figured I shouldn’t vote since it isn’t my country.
Perfect score!
Perfect score with 1:55 remaining.
Perfect score!
21/22 with 1:37. For me an all time best! lol
Great work!
I tied your score exactly. And I voted against John Oliver’s fancypants bird. I voted for the Morepork because lol more pork
We have morepork in our yard at night sometimes. We normally call them ruru – the Maori name.
22/22 with 2:32 left
Great work!