Alright, I'll admit it! I'm a POPINJAY.

[Sugar Smack]

I'm a full-fledged, red-blooded, 100% card-carrying POPINJAY!


You non-popinjays who think our lives are all soft pillows, round edges, champagne and caviar, well, I'm here to clear this thing up once and for all. It's hard work. Hard, hard work. Popinjays never take the path of least resistance. We wind up backpeddaling so much we almost never get anywhere. You wanna see my scars?

Don't even get me started on being the occasional drink-soaked popinjay.

Thanks for listening.

[kskiska]

1. But are you a lick-spittle popinjay?

That's the worst kind.

[Sugar Smack]

2. no, not that kind at all.

I try to stay open-minded, but I can't be around THAT particular group of popinjays.

[kskiska]

3. Good for you!

Stay away from that nasty lot. And mind the gap.

[Sugar Smack]

6. We tend to stick together, even though

we're accused of being "vain, talkative people". Since we're vain and talkative, we sometimes wind up not listening to one another.

[TlalocW]

4. Well, I'm a scurrilous mountebank

So there!

TlalocW

[Sugar Smack]

5. Now, if you were a scurvy scallowag I'd be fearful.

Are you a red-beaked scurrilous mountebank? Just curious!

:P

[Sugar Smack]

7. Kick for hard-working, backpeddaling, coffee-soaked, afternoon

popinjays

[Jara sang]

8. What is a popinjay?

I really don't know.:shrug: :hi:

[Sugar Smack]

10. Ah, Jara sang!

:hi: Hey, you!

Here's a link to a dicussion from yesterday that explains it all. What fun!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3676287&mesg_id=3676287

The word "popinjay" is English colloquial meaning, "vain, talkative person". And honestly, it sounds like an adorable name for a little bird.

[kskiska]

12. A vain or conceited person, one given to pretentious displays.

This deeply insulting word is now rather dated or literary. A good example can be found in Joseph Conrad’s short story The End of the Tether of 1902: “When he looked around in the club he saw only a lot of conceited popinjays too selfish to think of making a good woman happy”.

Dictionaries say a popinjay was also at one time the usual name for a parrot, and in that lies the origin of the derogatory term. What could be more gaudily and squawkingly in your face than a parrot? What more perfect term for an empty chatterer, fop or coxcomb? Who’s a pretty boy, then?

more…
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-pop2.htm

[Sugar Smack]

15. kskiska-

I could just kiss kiss kiss ya!


GREAT description!!!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[Jara sang]

13. Ahhhh... I see.

Thanks Sugar.:D

[kskiska]

9. Perhaps you'd enjoy a holiday at the Popinjay Hotel

Best Western Popinjay Hotel



An inviting hotel, built in Tudor fashion in 1882, the Popinjay Hotel is positioned 4 miles off the M74 England- Scotland main motorway, on the A72 Hamilton-Lanark Road in the heart of the famous scenic Clyde Valley. Set in 8 acres of private grounds with beautiful picturesque gardens reaching to the banks of the famous River Clyde, where the Popinjay enjoys its fishing rights.

more…
http://www.bestwestern.co.uk/content/hotel-details-leisure.aspx?hotel=83522

[Sugar Smack]

14. OMG, look at me! I'm HUGE!

It's a wonder I can fit into these pants!!



:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. I've been known to have popinjayish tendencies.

Every once in awhile a drink-soaked popinjay. But never a lick spittle one.

[Sugar Smack]

16. Yes, and I must say-

You wear those feathers WELL! I'l bet they're all the more vivid when they're drink-soaked.

[Longgrain]

17. Back from Boston, sweet popinjay

Looks like I'm a coo-coo popinjay too too.

[Sugar Smack]

18. Y'know, and it's not just this EASY LIFE.

The "ups" are higher and the "downs" are not pretty. Tell us, what were you before you became a popinjay?

[Longgrain]

19. I was a shy little artist from New England, not knowing what

I was doing.

I still don't know what I'm doing, but at least people are paying attention to me now. :P

[Sugar Smack]

20. Well, popinjays are hard to ignore-

Especially if they don't know what they're doing. It helps to be skilled in the art of bluster, a lot of skwawking and feather-fanning. Ravens have it easier, I suspect.

[In_The_Wind]

21. I had no idea

:shrug:

I got blustering and swaggering down pat ~ but I never thought I was conceited.

~ in your face like a parrot :headbang: you bet

*popinjay*

[Sugar Smack]

22. Joan_Alpern, bird of a feather!

:hi: :loveya:

No, we're not really. Blustering and swaggering is an innocent pastime of ours, we've honed it to a science, and it's second nature. We popinjays (give or take one or two) are sweet creatures, given the proper habitat.

What's your proper habitat, btw?

:D

[Longgrain]

23. Freebird of a feather, if I must say.

Hi Joani.:hi:

(Sorry Sugah, but I'm just vain, and chatty).

:P

[Sugar Smack]

24. Think nothing of it, so am I.

And I've been accused of hijacking threads by people who should know

[Longgrain]

25. Then consider this thread hijacked temporarily

I need to go find some travel sketches to scan...

[In_The_Wind]

26. habitat

120 miles north of New York City ~ and there is nothing "proper" about it :evilgrin:

former habitat ~ Ga.

[Sugar Smack]

27. Woooo-hoooooooooo smilie inserted here!

You're making this a fun night for me!

My habitat is one with a cat, 3,000 books, love, a small buzz from wherever, and lotsa talk... good music! My cage is clean, and if I have to be a popinjay tonight, well maybe I will!

:woohoo:

PS- do you have as much trouble as I do, catching the "woo-hoo" smilie?

[In_The_Wind]

28. I'm looking for a woohoo now

habitat = 3 parrots, 4 golden retrievers, 2 house-mates, 9 full bookcases, 4 TVs - all currently off.

The bi-monthly cage cleaner will appear tomorrow morning.

I frequently a small buzz on things that won't trash your wallet or health (or at least that what several doctors have told me)~ last night I figured out that if you mix Absolut Raspberry Vodka with Coke it taste like an alcoholic Dr. Pepper.

:woohoo::popcorn::beer::woohoo: