# Have you heard about the bird? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180 "2011-06-28T19:54:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/1 "2011-06-28T19:54:09Z")
Surely everyone has. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/2 "2011-06-28T19:56:55Z")
The bird is the word! ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/3 "2011-06-28T20:08:41Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > The bird is the word! Everybody knows that!!! ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/4 "2011-06-28T20:10:17Z")
I’ve heard _ **of** _ the bird, but not _about_ the bird. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/5 "2011-06-28T20:11:41Z")
**Bytegeist** , here; I’ll flip it to you. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/6 "2011-06-28T20:24:17Z")
Oom-mah-mow. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/7 "2011-06-28T20:41:55Z")
> [@emmaliminal](#): > > **Bytegeist** , here; I’ll flip it to you. Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/8 "2011-06-28T20:50:42Z")
Of course. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/9 "2011-06-28T20:59:55Z")
[Second row, first button](http://www.instantsfun.es/tv). ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/10 "2011-06-28T21:01:20Z")
I was under the impression that everyone had heard. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/11 "2011-06-28T21:27:07Z")
Hmmm, that’s odd. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/12 "2011-06-28T22:10:14Z")
Research tells me that the bird is greater than or equal to the word ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/13 "2011-06-28T23:05:49Z")
[This guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQEDojPZ7YI&feature=player_detailpage#t=76s) is intimately familiar with the bird. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/14 "2011-06-28T23:10:19Z")
Huh? is this yet another internet meme that has passed over my head? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/15 "2011-06-28T23:11:03Z")
Stop playing the record, Peter!! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Not\_Appearing\_on\_This\_Site](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sir\_Not\_Appearing\_on\_This\_Site](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Not_Appearing_on_This_Site)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/16 "2011-06-28T23:26:56Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > Huh? is this yet another internet meme that has passed over my head? Internet meme? [No, much older than that.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfin%27_Bird) ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/17 "2011-06-28T23:41:07Z")
Bird, bird, bird-bird ba-bird. ---
**Author:** ![kjckjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kjckjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjckjc)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/18 "2011-06-29T01:40:25Z")
Thank god for this thread. Before, there seemed to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece. A poll regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/19 "2011-06-29T02:22:50Z")
Yes, and I was so happy that I had stopped hearing about it. Peter Griffin, you are one person I feel 100% justified in saying you are not smart enough to be posting here. Give **Hamster King** back his account. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180/20 "2011-06-29T02:28:10Z")
And people say music was shit before the Beatles. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-about-the-bird/587180.md?page=2)