a little birdie told me so

Saturday, October 30, 2010

From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! --Scottish saying

Happy Halloween!

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Carrie Van HornOctober 30, 2010 at 2:02 PM
Happy Halloween Stevie! :-)
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tincanlilyOctober 30, 2010 at 2:14 PM
Love drawing! I do remember having that doll. I guessed the name before I started the commercial!
Have a Halloween full of treats!
denise
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tincanlilyOctober 30, 2010 at 2:15 PM
I meant to say I love your drawing!
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HilaryOctober 30, 2010 at 2:16 PM
Fun header! Hope yours is a happy one.
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abby jenkinsOctober 30, 2010 at 3:48 PM
I'll drink to that! single malt of course!
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AnonymousOctober 30, 2010 at 3:56 PM
Cute saying and drawing : ) Happy Halloween!!!
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Paul COctober 30, 2010 at 5:19 PM
Pretty hard to escape the spirits these days.
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Betsy BrockOctober 30, 2010 at 7:19 PM
long leggity beasties...oh, that is SO much fun to say! ha.
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Lisa at GreenbowOctober 30, 2010 at 7:57 PM
What a fun posting. Happy Halloween to your too Stevie.
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AnonymousOctober 30, 2010 at 8:50 PM
Stevie,
A real cute Halloween drawings... that little owl looks pretty lonely and scared... hee hee.
Happy Halloween! :) The Bach
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Jill from Killeny GlenOctober 31, 2010 at 7:39 AM
It was like stopping by a PARTY! What fun...the verse and the drawings...that owl is ABSOLUTELY too sweet to be scary!
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ZuzanaOctober 31, 2010 at 9:25 AM
Happy Halloween to you too, I love your new Halloween look here.;))
xoxo
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UnknownOctober 31, 2010 at 1:20 PM
love the spooky look - Happy Halloween!!
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AnonymousOctober 31, 2010 at 6:22 PM
Happy halloween Stevie!
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GailOOctober 31, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Very spooky over here Stevie! Happy Halloween!
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julie kingOctober 31, 2010 at 10:40 PM
adorable owl in a tree! boo to you, too! smile!
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I'm glad you stopped by and I look forward to your comments. As Dr. Fraser Crane would say, "Hello, I'm listening."

...."We were Birds Without Wings. You were a robin and I was a blackbird. And there were some who were eagles or vultures or pretty gold finches, but none of us had wings. For birds with wings nothing changes. They fly where they will and they know nothing about borders and their quarrels are very small. But we are always confined to earth, no matter how much we climb to the high places and flap our arms. Because we cannot fly we are condemned to do things that do not agree with us. Because we have no wings we are pushed into struggles and abominations that we did not seek and then after all that, the years go by. The mountains are leveled. The valleys rise. The rivers are blocked by sand and the cliffs fall into the sea." -Louis De Berniere

Who Said It First?

The phrase "little birdie told me so" may find it's origins in this Bible verse. "Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird of the air may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say" (Ecclesiastes 10:20). The earliest form of the saying was included in John Heywood's collection of proverbs (1546). In 1583, Brian Melbancke wrote in 'Philotimus'" 'I had a little bird, that brought me newes of it.' In 1711, in 'Letter to Stella,' Jonathan Swift came close to the current version: 'I heard a little bird say so.'