CLOACA!

[AlienGirl]

Just thought I'd repeat it...

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Why are you repeating cloaca?

Trying to start a bird pornography thread?

[AlienGirl]

3. My bird is horny

[Ladyhawk]

14. You know, other animals besides birds have cloacas.

Why are you making such an ornithocentric thread? :)

[EstimatedProphet]

17. Well, you know, "Cloaca" is Latin

"Ornithology" is Greek...why are you making a Greco-centric thread?

:)

[Ladyhawk]

13. My birds will read it. :) n/t

[NightTrain]

2. I once wrote a satiric novel about a 1970s teen idol.

The label he records for is Cloaca Records!

[Pithlet]

4. No sex threads!

:D

[Kat45]

5. Cloaca is a great word.

[AlienGirl]

6. But not one you want rubbed on your arm

[Kat45]

9. Very, very true.

Thankfully, my bird doesn't do that. And I hope she'll never start. But my ex's bird does it. Frequently. :hi:

[AlienGirl]

11. Gideon keeps doing it to me

And when someone with a pliers on their face grabs on to steady your arm, it can hurt!

(What kind of bird, BTW?)

Tucker

[Ladyhawk]

16. Haha...I use the "pliers" line a lot, especially in my birdy rhymes.

I use birdy rhymes to talk to the zoo crew. Somehow I can only remember them when I'm actually talking to the zoo crew. Maybe it's just as well.

You have feathers on your face.
You have feathers every place!
You have feathers here and there.
You have feather underwear!

I remembered that bit...see what I mean?

[AlienGirl]

18. LOL, that's great!

I also call him th "feathery chainsaw" and "Eater of Technology."

Tucker

[Ladyhawk]

19. LOL! :)

[Kat45]

20. My bird is a parrotlet. (Her pic is in my sig)

The bird who rubs his cloaca on my ex's hand is a Senegal. "Pliers on their face"--I like that one; it's quite accurate.

[Ladyhawk]

15. I once got a nice load of Amazon parrot sperm on my hand... n/t

[Sabriel]

7. There's nothing common about that sewer!

I still remember that day in Bio II, when my teacher took great glee in pointing out to us where eggs come out...along with everything else. Ewg.

[AlienGirl]

8. You had to wait till Bio II?

Didn't you ever watch chickens as a kid?

Eggs sometimes have poo on them when they come out, too.

Tucker

[mapster]

10. Did you know

that the Romans called their drainage system/sewer the Cloaca Maxima? Isn't that a great name for a sewer?

[AlienGirl]

12. Yep!

A Google Image Search for "cloaca" gets mostly Roman sewer pics...

Tucker

[Lisa]

21. a British zoologist friend used to get kidded about "tongue"

(the tinned variety favoured as a delicacy back home) -- and she always used to remind her tormentors where eggs come from!

I had to inspect my bird's cloaca to try to determine her sex -- she's a Speckled Sussex chicken. She's learned to associate me with food, and comes looking for me if I leave her cage open -- but she's a bit young to be thinking amorous thoughts. (Just hatched last month.) Her beak isn't so much pliers as an icepick. Now she's taken to pecking anything within reach, just to see if it might be edible. I know this is actually a good thing for a chicken who'll be expected to forage on her own, but having to praise her when she targets the freckles on my arm is a bit much!

[Deja Q]

22. Cloaca needs male jelly!