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Jamie, I'm on JECE's side here. The parrot can be interpreted both ways.

Palin losing it at Cleese's "PINING FOR THE FJORDS?!?!" is one of my favorite things ever.

I thought about the Python movies (the Black Beast of Arrgh from Holy Grail was on my list at one point) but couldn't work back to TV. I've never seen _And Now For Something Completely Different_ (puts on to-do list) so I didn't think of that. I got JECE's stuff about the animal question, but I honestly couldn't think of a character that was a real non-fantasy animal and yet a non-real species (and, if I'm being completely honest, even when watching the sketch in the past I never thought about the Norwegian Blue being a "fake" species of bird because there's a shload of bird species out there and I always figured it was just one I'd never heard of.)

...but, in retrospect the original question was:

Is this fictional creature a fictional representation of a real type of creature?

...and I personally would have answered Yes. It is a fictional (non-existing species) representation of a real parrot.

DougJoe wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 13, 2023 3:17 pm

I've never seen _And Now For Something Completely Different_ (puts on to-do list)

It's on my list too! I've only seen clips on-line.

DougJoe wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 13, 2023 3:17 pm

if I'm being completely honest, even when watching the sketch in the past I never thought about the Norwegian Blue being a "fake" species of bird because there's a shload of bird species out there and I always figured it was just one I'd never heard of

That's pretty funny, ha ha. I think that the irony of describing a tropical bird as originating in Norway was supposed to give it away.

DougJoe wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 13, 2023 3:17 pm

...but, in retrospect the original question was:

Is this fictional creature a fictional representation of a real type of creature?

...and I personally would have answered Yes. It is a fictional (non-existing species) representation of a real parrot.

Oh, I'm sorry. I have a cold.

I guess that technically the word "fictional" was used twice, so an affirmative answer could have meant that 'yes, the fictional dead parrot is the fictional Norwegian Blue type of parrot'. But that is not what Jamiet99uk meant to ask if you consider how the question was rephrased: "Does this fictional creature broadly represent real type of creature (even if not an accurate representation of what that creature is really like)?"

The nuance you are missing there is "broadly", which I went to great pains to emphasise.

It's broadly a fucking parrot which very clearly is broadly a real type of animal.

Big Red Dogs are not a real breed of dog but Clifford represents a dog.

You'll be hearing from my solicitor.

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:19 pm

Big Red Dogs are not a real breed of dog

And yet they are not a fictional breed of dog either.

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:19 pm

You'll be hearing from my solicitor.

Listen, I didn't want to host twenty questions. I wanted to be a lumberjack.

JECE wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:33 pm

Listen, I didn't want to host twenty questions. I wanted to be a lumberjack.

A lumberjack!
Leaping from tree to tree
As they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia
The giant redwood
The larch
The fir
The mighty Scots pine!
The lofty flowering cherry
The plucky little aspen
The limping Roo tree of Nigeria
The towering Wattle of Aldershot
The Maidenhead Weeping Water Plant
The naughty Leicestershire Flashing Oak
The flatulent Elm of West Ruislip
The Quercus Maximus Bamber Gascoigni
The Epigillus
The Barter Hughius Greenus!
With my best buddy by my side
We'd sing, sing, sing!!

JECE wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:33 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:19 pm

Big Red Dogs are not a real breed of dog

And yet they are not a fictional breed of dog either.

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:19 pm

You'll be hearing from my solicitor.

Listen, I didn't want to host twenty questions. I wanted to be a lumberjack.

You're a lumberjack and you're okay.

If the parrot was a duck I'd have cried FOWL.

The Ministry of Silly Posts will be paying some of you a visit.