Good Joke for Birdwatchers.
Sep. 18th, 2007 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Kip and I were watching the second season of Rome a couple of nights ago. In one of the late season episodes (I think it was "About Your Father"), two characters have fled into the desert and a third has found them there.
Characters one and three have known each other a long time, and they talk quietly around the fire in the desert night. In the background a bird cries.
And the bird chosen to emphasize the utter loneliness of the Egyptian desert…
…was a loon.
I fell over laughing.
Characters one and three have known each other a long time, and they talk quietly around the fire in the desert night. In the background a bird cries.
And the bird chosen to emphasize the utter loneliness of the Egyptian desert…
…was a loon.
I fell over laughing.
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Date: 2007-09-18 11:39 pm (UTC)OK, it was a temperature inversion in the atmosphere that turned the air between the northern Great Lakes and Egypt into a waveguide, and it was so quiet in the desert that the sound was audible from that one...uh...bird...
It's as much fun as when they superimpose Apollo photos that show the trailing side of the moon, rather than the near side, into the earth's sky.
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Date: 2007-09-19 02:48 pm (UTC)If you'd like to see pictures, scroll down to "Rant No. 1: The Wrong Side of the Moon" on this page.
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