Four & Twenty Blackbirds...

**Acorn** · 20 April 2020, 04:24 PM

Definitely a 'Off-topic':

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Do read the Title wording and follow the link if still confused:

The Corvid-19.xar

Also, it involves a little counting.

Acorn

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**handrawn** · 20 April 2020, 05:00 PM

I could make a wry comment [ok I'm going now....

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**wizard509** · 20 April 2020, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by Acorn

Definitely a 'Off-topic':

Do read the Title wording and follow the link if still confused:

The Corvid-19.xar

Also, it involves a little counting.

Acorn

[Link]

I like it!

**Acorn** · 20 April 2020, 06:54 PM

The joke is a blackbird is not a Corvid and Corvid is not the Coronavirus.

Told you it was off.

Acorn

**handrawn** · 20 April 2020, 08:45 PM

I'm no rookie, I know it's a thrush, they glare at us through the window when we forget to put out the mealworms..

**Acorn** · 20 April 2020, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by handrawn

I'm no rookie, I know it's a thrush, they glare at us through the window when we forget to put out the mealworms..

I'm all right Jack. Dawn is the best time to put your hand in the bush to get all three, you know.

Acorn

**gwpriester** · 21 April 2020, 12:59 AM

Corvo, is Spanish for Raven, a large black bird.

**handrawn** · 21 April 2020, 07:08 AM

they tell me spanish is close to latin (which Italian is not) so that would make sense as corvidae is the crow family genus that includes ravens rooks jays magpies.... but not the common (european) blackbird normally associated with the nursery rhyme (though that is open to debate)... they are thrushes...

**handrawn** · 21 April 2020, 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by Acorn

I'm all right Jack. Dawn is the best time to put your hand in the bush to get all three, you know.

Acorn

jackdaws are corvidae too... but dawn is far too early to crack open the black bush [unless you were up all night]... I'll go with [a measure of] three being better than two though...