BarryMK said:
rak said:
Idiophone can only be played by giraffes or elephants
Incorrect, I'm afraid.
Col's got one and he's brilliant on it. He played an amazing solo with it on Track 3 of his latest cd - you know the one.
Ah, so the idophone can also be played by a
booby?
ColinEssex said:
If the religious manual is correct
rolleyes: ) then the god entity thing created all living things, so presumably a (fully grown) chicken was one of them.
Well then why didn't you vote for that? Hmmmm.....?
EmmaJane said:
Sorry Kraj if this is hijacking your thread but it nice to actually find one that hasn't so far ended up with an argument between US and UK!!!
Hijack away! I just wanted to have some fun, who cares where the thread goes?
EmmaJane said:
Okay I have a question..... why do we refer to cowards as "chicken" and why the colour (or color for our American friends!) yellow?
I have no idea why "chicken" is used for cowardly behavior. I can't find a thing. Maybe because of they way the run around like they're terrified of everything? There's a little more to work with for "yellow", which comes from the term "yellowbelly". Yellowbelly seems to have originated in the late 1700s as an insult to people from Lincolnshire. Apparently a particular animal native to the Fens of Lincolnshire is a yellow-bellied eel. It caught on in the U.S. as an insult from soldiers and western settlers toward the Mexicans. Why it means cowardly, however, I do not know. I've found references to "lillyliver" which explain how bile was once thought to instill passion and courage, so a pale liver would indicate cowardice. But that refers to pale or white, and not yellow, although it would explain the belly reference. I don't know if they're related or not.