The reason you fnord don’t see the word “Fnord”, is that you were profnordgrammed in elementary school to fnord ignore it. Obviously, the word isn’t really “Fnord”, but that fnord serves as a placeholder for the actual word, which is .
I regret to inform everyone that Prof. Pepperwinkle was horribly mutilated and killed before he could type AAAAAAAAaaaaaararrrrrrrggggghhh…
The Dead Parrot (of Monty Python sketch fame) was, IRL, pining for the fnords.
In the original draft of the novella “Flowers for Algernon,” the animal who had the operator and became super smart was a parrot. Think about it: If you were going to perform an operator on an animal to make it super smart, wouldn’t you want one who could talk to tell you what’s going on? The retarded Charlie loves the parrot, so he kidnaps it and, using the parrot’s brains and talking abilities, has a serious of great adventures without becoming super smart.
(And I think I have to write that book).
Retarded Charlie Loves the Parrot was the original name of the 1980s one-hit-wonder band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
Contrary to popular opinion, the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood was not named for Frank Sinatra. The inspiration was actually Frankie Manning, inventor of the dance called “The Lindy Hop,” which contrary to popular opinion, was not named after Charles Lindbergh. It was instead a reference to the way Manning’s wife Lindy would hop over a creaky floor board to avoid being heard while returning home from an evening of debauchery.
Charles Lindbergh did not make it across the Atlantic Ocean. Aliens from Rigel-XLVIII intercepted his ship and replaced him with a QuikKlone, who was almost identical in every way (except for some of his political views).
Charles Lindbergh somewhat credibly denied charges of being pro-Nazi until grainy Super 8 footage of him on a romantic Aruba parasailing weekend with Reinhard Heydrich surfaced in June 1966.
In 1968 Charles Lindbergh offered the crew of Apollo 8 twenty-five million dollars if one of them would let him take their place at the last moment. Accounts differ as to whether any of the three almost took the deal.
Lindbergh would have made the trip to Paris in half the time, if he hadn’t been drunk and zig-zagging all over the North Atlantic. In that light, “Spirit of St. Louis,” takes on a whole different meaning.
According to author/adventurer Bugs Meany, in 2012 he crashed a replica of The Spirit of St Louis in the Amazon rainforest. Lost and injured in the South American jungle, Meany narrowly avoided anacondas and poison dart frogs as he trekked aimlessly until finally he stumbled upon the Amazon River itself. He walked and hacked his way along the bank, hoping against hope that he might find a way out of his predicament. He lived on exotic tropical fruits and plants. He slept in trees. Then, finally, five days later, Meany spied a bridge up ahead. But at that moment a jaguar attacked! Meany says he was forced to swim towards the bridge. But he was still not safe. He saw a group of red-bellied piranhas heading his way. Meany’s harrowing tale has him out-swimming the deadly fish and reaching the bridge just ahead of certain death. Once Meany crossed the bridge over the Amazon, he followed the road until he encountered civilization.
Meany wanted to publish an expensive book telling about his adventure. He said he wished to raise money to retrieve his plane and support the rainforest. However noted *Times * book critic E. Leroy Brown exposed the whole tale as a hoax. Brown knew that, despite its length, there are no bridges that cross the Amazon River.
The Amazon river did not get its name from female warriors. When Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana first encountered the indigenous Yanomami tribe along its banks, he asked them what they called the river, and the reply sounded similar to “Amazon,” so he went with that. It wasn’t until years later that translators discovered the word actually meant “toilet.”
The Yanomami tribe have a long-standing rivalry/feud/internecine war with the Paravathi tribe, despite the fact that the latter are confined solely to the island of Timor in the Pacific.
The island of Timor is actually eight times the size of Iowa, but the natives bribe visiting cartographers to understate its size to keep China from taking notice and making territorial claims.
Francisco Guterres, the President of Timor, has approved plans for researchers to outfit laser cannons on the backs of native lemurs, in case of Mandarin manipulations.
The tiny Timor lemur sometimes develops a femur tumor. However if it is a tamer tiny Timor lemur, it can usually be caught and timely treated with a lemon lather, similar to that used on larger lamer Timor llamas.
Your Mama’s Llamas was a one-hit wonder with the song “Lemon Lather.” The lead singer later became a porn star under that name.
Lemon lather baths were once thought to be the cause of yeast infections, due to the wild yeast that grows inside lemon peels.
Lemon tree very pretty
And the lemon flowers smell sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon
Causes yeast infections on your meat…
Former Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon has signed a deal to promote Red Star Yeast in commercials, but only ones that appear in Canada.