[Death by Mirrors]

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.

[Death by Mirrors]

Yesterday, all my problems seemed to go away
It looks like they are here now.
Oh, I think it was yesterday
Suddenly I'm not half a man.
Shadows surround me
Indeed, it soon arrived

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I will give her a vote I can not refuse.

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I feel like Toto, Kansas is gone.

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Don't worry. When you shoot exactly eighty-eight miles an hour with the hook that connects the wire, the electric turret collides ... all right.

[Merskelly Metalien]

"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."?

[Witchchylde]

Wow, it's half over
Wow pray
Take my hand, I swear
Wow pray

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.

[Death by Mirrors]

Both of you are correct ^^

[mdom]

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.

[Coda]

"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!

[Death by Mirrors]

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

[Espy]

Let's move on to beating the abusers
Did they send me a daughter when I asked for a vote?
You are the happiest bundle
But you can bet before we go
Sir, I will be the husband

-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]

[Coda]

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

[Espy]

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.

[Death by Mirrors]

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)

[bluebird]

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

King Alvin has three seals under the sea
As their rights, seven officials,
Not those who die
The God of darkness on his dark bed
Horde in the country where there are shipments.

*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.

[Espy]

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

[Witchchylde]

Just as much? It isn't far more?

[Espy]

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