Baby kookaburra:

[tblue37]

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[tblue37]

1. 2nd tweet--Baby kookaburra learning to laugh:

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[Hekate]

2. There was a song about a Kookaburra in my 1950s gradeschool music book ...

I never knew what it looked like or even if it was a bird at all. But I still remember the song, sung as a round. Thank you!

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the woods is he
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life must be.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. BANNED! by the Guardians Of Perversity

It has the word "Gay" in it. If you sang it, you must be a demon!
Oh, the bird must be a demon, too. Ban the bird!
Uh oh, I repeated it, so now I'm a demon and must be banned!

Laugh Kookabura.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. the word also meant happpy

[Hekate]

9. To quote Joanie Caucus in Doonesbury: "I myself am often cheerful"

Back when my oldest grandson was 5 yo I read him The Hobbit, and found myself changing bits of vocabulary around… Spoken language changes all the time.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. i remember this too also. but not 1950s.

[Hekate]

7. When?

[Different Drummer]

8. I learned the same song in 1960s grade school.

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[AllaN01Bear]

6. got any food it says .