Thorne opened this issue on Aug 19, 2001 ยท 91 posts
Thorne posted Sun, 19 August 2001 at 8:23 PM
Again it is I who am awed and humbled by the overwhelming response here. Yes, I thought I would get maybe a few pro and con responses, and perhaps even a "good riddance you pervert" thrown in for good measure. Instead all I see here are very wonderful, caring artists who even if they don't agree with my statements, step up to defend my rights to make them. I know I sound like a broken record at this point, but thank you all very much. As far as the difference between selling and giving away models, let me give you an analogy, which will give me a chance to draw pictures with words, which I might be better off to just to come out and say and which might not make any sense in the end, but I like doing that. (Drawing pictures, not NOT making sense in the end!) Okie, say I was to set out a large bowl of sunflower seeds for the little birdies in my backyard on the stump, which I actually do pretty often, so that's not farfetched. It's in my wide open backyard; I'm not looking out the kitchen window every minute; so here comes the flamboyant cardinals with their bright red hats on and they get some sunflower seeds. YUM! Their FAVORITE! Then Mr. argumentative BlueJay hops down off his branch and grabs him a few bites and tells everyone to back off, he's eating now. Then as the day goes on, the Robins, the Doves, the chickadees, and the wee little Nuthatches all come down, and all share some of the lovely sunflower seeds I have put out for them. Suddenly, here come the nasty ol' Grackles who fight over, make messes, and spill the food, and not only that, they poopie in the seed bowl. Hey, Grackles really do this, I'm not kidding! Disgusting! Now when I comes outside later after all done been said and done, I finds Grackle poopie in the seed bowl. GRRRR!!! Those sicko Grackles! Now I know it was some Grackle done poopied in the bowl because that's what Grackles do. But which ones? Maybe there are a few decent, upstanding Grackles out there who honestly think that pooping in your seed bowl is for the birds! (sorry, couldn't resist) To beat it all, we got ol' Mr. Crow sitting up there on his limb, screaming at the top of his lungs at ME, somethin' about "It's all your fault! If you hadn't put those seeds out here, there wouldn't be any poopie in the bowl! I just think that inny-body who puts out seeds KNOWS he is just askin' for Grackles to come poopie in the bowl! Therefore it is YOU who are responsible for all that poopie, you bad, bad man!" Good grief, what next? There have been all kinds of birds coming here to the wide open seed bowl all day getting seeds, but only a certain one or two have poopied in the bowl! Now myself not being currently or even having any desire whatsoever to ever be an expert on bird poopie, how do I know whodunnit? Maybe it was a perverted BlueJay for all I know? Geez, will you SHUT UP, Mr. Crow? But just maybe then I gets this plan see. Yeah, maybe it's a bird-brained scheme that won't work for poopie; well then I'll hafta do sumthin' else. But anything at this point is better than having all this POOPIE EVERYWHERE! Also... Maybe I do artwork for fun or sumthin', but maybe I really has me a degree in Robotics and works on computers for a living all day while those vile Grackles are out doin' their business all over everybody elses business! So my plan is simple: I'll just set the seed bowl up in the window sill behind the screen, and I'll cut me a little flap in that screen beside the seed bowl. and when a bird, whatever kind of bird it is, whilst I remembers that even some Grackles is fine upstandin' bird citizens, comes along to get some seeds, he or she will have to push open the little flap in the screen to get them, and THEN see, here's the big-time-engineerin'-genius part: that will trigger my little digital camera to take a snapshot of that bird. Wha...? Yeah yeah, I know, Big Bird Brother is watching you and all that, but this is an analogy for pete's sakes so lets just get on with it, it's long enuff as it is... If one of those birds, be it Grackle, BlueJay, Cardinal, or even Robyn Ravenhair (sorry honey) decides they are going to poopie in the seed bowl... well, lo and behold we has us a nice little snapshot of every bird done came and got some seeds that day. And if there be poopie in the bowl, well, there again we just looks through our pictures and then we see.... why, if it ain't ol' Mr. STARLING been sneekin' over and pooping in the seed bowl. Gotcha you little prevert! Well, hopefully that will give you the idea. Pleas don't ask for further explainin' as I'm not sure I understand all the ins and outs of it muhself. But it becomes a darn sight easier to ban Mr. "Poopie-In-The-Seed-Bowl" Starling when we got 'im dead to rights than sittin' out there trying to figure out what kind of poopie is this, anyway? Well, reckon who left it here?