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Paterson.\n\nThe song version may be heard here (link tested 11/09/2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w0WsZ0fpFI\n\nFull movie (link tested 11/09/2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFts_tp3zVI\n\nThe lyrics are here,\n\nBeside the bare and beaten track of traveling flocks and herds\nThe woodpecker went tapping on, the postman of the birds,\n\"I've got a letter here,\" he said, \"that no one's understood,\nAddressed as follows: 'To the bird that's like a piece of wood.'\n\nAnd this is what I heard (\"tappy-tappy-tap\")\nFrom the postman of the birds\n\n\"The soldier bird got very cross--it wasn't meant for her;\nThe spur-wing plover had a try to stab me with a spur:\nThe jackass laughed, and said the thing was written for a lark.\nI think I'll chuck this postman job and take to stripping bark.\"\n\nAnd this is what I heard (\"tappy-tappy-tap\")\nFrom the postman of the birds\n\nThen all the birds for miles around came to lend a hand;\nThey perched upon a broken limb as thick as they could stand,\nAnd just as old man eagle-hawk prepared to have his say,\nA portion of the broken limb got up and flew away.\n\nThen, casting grammar to the winds, the postman said, \"That's him!\"\nThe boo-book owl--he squats himself along a broken limb,\nAnd pokes his beak up like a stick; there's not a bird, I vow,\nCan tell you which is boo-book owl and which is broken bough\n\nAnd this is what I heard (\"tappy-tappy-tap\")\nFrom the postman of the birds\n\n\"And that's the thing he calls his nest---his jerry-built affair--\nA bunch of sticks across a fork; I'll leave his letter there.\nA cuckoo wouldn't use his nest, but what's the odds to him---\nA bird that tries to imitate a piece of leaning limb!\"\n\nAnd this is what I heard\nFrom the postman of the birds\nThis is what I heard\nFrom the postman of the birds,\n\n\"There's not a bird, there's not a bird,\nThere's not a bird, I vow,\nCan tell you which is boo-book owl,\nAnd which is broken bough\"\n\nFor those who don't get it, the woodpecker's tapping is being compared to (say) a postman knocking at one's door (to collect a COD, perhaps? ...yes I'm old enough to know what those are).\nThe woodpecker is to deliver a letter, but he had difficulty finding its intended recipient (the boo-book owl).\n\nWhy?\n\nThe animal looks like this (link tested 11/09/2021): https://ap-pics2.gotpoem.com/ap-pics/item/8485/319.jpg?242x350\n\nBasically, the bird is supposed to look like the tree it's sitting on (hence the woodpecker couldn't find it ...until it moved). ^^\n\nPencil...\n\nI don't often feature mechanical pencils, as I've repented from using them in place of wooden ones (I used to draw everything with a Kuru-Toga).\nThis one, however, I really like!\n\nThe featured pencil is a Victory Mail or V-Mail pencil in American-patriotic colors!\nThe pencil has an unusual triangular barrel, making it comfortable to write long letters with (not that V-Mail letters could be very long-worded, but whatever).\nMoreover, this pencil still writes, albeit, with a hard lead (it's probably a #3 or #4). That said, I'm unsure how much lead is left in it, or if it can be refilled, so I'm not going to use it.\n\n...Anyway, yeah, in case my pencil collection hasn't clued anyone in yet, I have a thing for WWII pencils; it's my favorite pencil era.\n\nI've already covered what V-Mail was all about here: https://inkbunny.net/s/2505051\n\nTappy-tappy-tap!", "description_bbcode_parsed": "I. Never. Want. To. Draw. This. Stupid. Bird. AGAIN! D:

...but that's a story no one wants to read, so let's get on with this description (that, likewise, no one wants to read). ^^

This is the woodpecker from Yoram Gross's 'Dot and the Bunny' movie.

One-Cent ACO has referenced the aforementioned movie before (more than once ...and recently), but I (foolishly) wanted to draw the woodpecker ...so I did (because I do what I want). ^^

Anyway, the woodpecker serves absolutely no purpose, storywise, but does provide a delightful song, sung by Barbara Frawley (ie, the bunny).

The song is based on the poem 'Camouflage' by A.B. Paterson.

The song version may be heard here (link tested 11/09/2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w0WsZ0fpFI

Full movie (link tested 11/09/2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFts_tp3zVI

The lyrics are here,

Beside the bare and beaten track of traveling flocks and herds
The woodpecker went tapping on, the postman of the birds,
"I've got a letter here," he said, "that no one's understood,
Addressed as follows: 'To the bird that's like a piece of wood.'

And this is what I heard ("tappy-tappy-tap")
From the postman of the birds

"The soldier bird got very cross--it wasn't meant for her;
The spur-wing plover had a try to stab me with a spur:
The jackass laughed, and said the thing was written for a lark.
I think I'll chuck this postman job and take to stripping bark."

And this is what I heard ("tappy-tappy-tap")
From the postman of the birds

Then all the birds for miles around came to lend a hand;
They perched upon a broken limb as thick as they could stand,
And just as old man eagle-hawk prepared to have his say,
A portion of the broken limb got up and flew away.

Then, casting grammar to the winds, the postman said, "That's him!"
The boo-book owl--he squats himself along a broken limb,
And pokes his beak up like a stick; there's not a bird, I vow,
Can tell you which is boo-book owl and which is broken bough

And this is what I heard ("tappy-tappy-tap")
From the postman of the birds

"And that's the thing he calls his nest---his jerry-built affair--
A bunch of sticks across a fork; I'll leave his letter there.
A cuckoo wouldn't use his nest, but what's the odds to him---
A bird that tries to imitate a piece of leaning limb!"

And this is what I heard
From the postman of the birds
This is what I heard
From the postman of the birds,

"There's not a bird, there's not a bird,
There's not a bird, I vow,
Can tell you which is boo-book owl,
And which is broken bough"

For those who don't get it, the woodpecker's tapping is being compared to (say) a postman knocking at one's door (to collect a COD, perhaps? ...yes I'm old enough to know what those are).
The woodpecker is to deliver a letter, but he had difficulty finding its intended recipient (the boo-book owl).

Why?

The animal looks like this (link tested 11/09/2021): https://ap-pics2.gotpoem.com/ap-pics/item/8485/319.jpg?...

Basically, the bird is supposed to look like the tree it's sitting on (hence the woodpecker couldn't find it ...until it moved). ^^

Pencil...

I don't often feature mechanical pencils, as I've repented from using them in place of wooden ones (I used to draw everything with a Kuru-Toga).
This one, however, I really like!

The featured pencil is a Victory Mail or V-Mail pencil in American-patriotic colors!
The pencil has an unusual triangular barrel, making it comfortable to write long letters with (not that V-Mail letters could be very long-worded, but whatever).
Moreover, this pencil still writes, albeit, with a hard lead (it's probably a #3 or #4). That said, I'm unsure how much lead is left in it, or if it can be refilled, so I'm not going to use it.

...Anyway, yeah, in case my pencil collection hasn't clued anyone in yet, I have a thing for WWII pencils; it's my favorite pencil era.

I've already covered what V-Mail was all about here: https://inkbunny.net/s/2505051

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