A Little Birdy Told Me
 

Did you know some birds are real chatterboxes? They love to sing, to twitter, to chirp - and since they have never mastered the fine art of handling a pencil with their wing tips, all bird culture has to rely on oral tradition.

One bird tells another who tells the next one who... you get the idea.

Of course it is no surprise their songs and speeches change over time. Any particular bird might forget a word only to replace it with something similar. The more often a message is passed from one bird to another, the more it changes. Can you still recognize where the original birdie came from?


Rules:

• Birds can be telling song lyrics, movie quotes, poems or otherwise famous texts.
• Quote the bird message and say what you think it is.
• One quote per post, even if you recognize more of them.
• Do not double post.
• Each correctly identified message is worth one Birdday Box.

"Make. Or not. There is no practice."
<x'] Isn't this from Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back?
"Do. Or Do not. There is no try."?

WHoa, we're halfway there,
WHoa oh! Living on a Prayer!
Take my hand, and we'll make it, I swear! Whoa oh! Living on a Prayer!

Living On A Prayer. Bon Jovi.

Both of you are correct ^^

Space: Last border. This is a business trip. You will find a new world, you will find a new life and you will find a new civilization in a vacant place<=>Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations.

"Space: Last border. This is a business trip. You will find a new world, you will find a new life and you will find a new civilization in a vacant place."
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to seek out strange new worlds, to discover new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before!

*sings Star Trek TNG theme song*

EDIT: Aw man, ninja'ed while typing!

Also correct, mdom. Explore strange new box. Seek out new pasties and sprinkles.

-inhales-

LET’S

GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

TO DEFEAT THE HUNS

DID THEY SEND ME DAUGHTERS

WHEN I ASKED FOR SONS

YOU’RE THE SADDEST BUNCH I’VE EVER MET

BUT YOU CAN BET

BEFORE WE’RE THROUGH

MISTER I’LL MAKE A MAN

OUT OF YOU

EDIT: what’s your definition of double posting?

[answer from person 1]
[answer from person 1]

or

[answer from person 1]
[chatting]
[answer from person 1]

You never gave up
You will never fail
Don't run, don't delay
You will not allow a
So don't say good-bye
Don't lie

http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-con...ick-astley.png

Four important years and seven years ago, our ancestors were made in a new country on this continent with Freedom and recommended that all be created equal.

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

All three correct. You're good bird whisperers.

(and for the record,

[answer from person 1]
[person 2 chatting]
[answer from person 1]

is perfectly fine)

IM PUMPED
 

*slams nerdy fists on the table* LORD OF THE RINGS!
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

We need courage to stand up to our enemies, but to resist our friends.

It takes great bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. -Dumbledore

Just as much? It isn't far more?

I thought it was “even more”, but the internet says “just as much”.

The trees cry out as they die, but you cannot hear them
I lie here and listen to the pain of the forest

princess mononoke! (word for word tho)

bluebird and Espy successfully listened to birds. Boxes flying your way.

And just for fun: Princess Mononoke bird version
The tree wept and died, but it was never heard
I sleep here and suffer in the forest

This feels like it's from Harry Potter. Talking to Neville or something

yusss

Yes XD (Forgot to make bird version)

MonBon yes it's from Harry Potter. Espy already solved that, but since I forgot to delete it, have a box anyway.

New bird texts are also up for guessing.

...There are three of my favorite quotes in there and some lyrics from a song that my mom really likes; you can't just *do* this to me.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door
'Tis some visitor, I muttered, knocking at my chamber door
Only this and nothing more.

---this is!
Road not Taken by Robert Frost!

i picked this poem to recite in high school.
...oof, it's all coming back

-edit-
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I�
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world

ABBA I LOVE ABBA

Thriller?

Yep, everyone correct! Sending boxes, let me know if your trade accidentially comes up empty.

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
by Dylan Thomas (who is not Bob Dylan)

Indeed not Bob Dylan. Have a box.