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Submitted by JP Marcantonio
As a child, I always thought the motion of the bird had something to do with perpetual motion. But as child, I WAS CLEARLY WRONG (childhood conception of physics fail). The drinking bird is actually an example of thermodynamics — like a heat engine. Duh.
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My brother made me one of them bad in the fifties when he was in wood shop. My dad said they were around when he was youth. and I saw some in a tourist shop up the road just last week. THEY ARE TIMELESS!
I always was curious about how these things worked; and I had thought it to be magic, until my brother ruined it for me at age 7…
btw, thank-you ScruffyKat for not typing “L0Lz FIRRRRRSSSSTTTT!!! w00T!” you are a credit to the internets.
A credit to the internet(s)? When did we get more? I’m pretty sure there is only one internet.
I’M NOT AN UNDEREMPLOYED GEEK that is why I don’t waste time with stupid stuff. dunking birds wil still fasinate kids of all ages for ever!
There is one of these right in front of me on my desk drinking right this very second. Double vision!
Does anyone remember the episode of the Simpson when Homer got one of these to fill in for him when he was supposed to be working from home?
Other than that, I’m not too certain the drinking bird is truly epic.
“Ha! It’d take FIVE of those birds to do my job!”
- Dilbert
It appeared first in the Baby Translator episode! “IT’S DRINKING THE WATER!!!”
Oh yeah! I forgot about that one…
I loved it when Herb showed them the blueprint for his translator and Homer looked at it a moment, upon which the lines on the blueprint rearranged themselves into a drinking bird
*”Heh heh, it’s going back for more”
You can buy these things online at ThinkGeek.
My mom use to have one in our kitchen window and he use to be so cool! But now I’m not sure where he is…
Pumpjacks on oil fields look just like these things. I think that every time I drive by one.
Our landlady, when I was a little kid, had one in her kitchen. I used to ask for a drink of water when we’d visit, just so I’d have the chance to go into the kitchen and see the bird.
The ones they make now are decidedly not as “pretty” – the flocking on the head is cheap, and sometimes you can get them with paper feathers instead of cheap sparrow feathers on the tail. But they still work!!
I had something like this, but it was just the chloride tube. We called it a ‘Love meter’ and when you held it how far the liquid went up was supposed to show how in love you were or something.
Sadly these are illegal in the UK (something about the chemical in them) so we’ve never seen them
Mine exploded and lifted the wood laminate off of my desk! I want to find another, because it never stopped once I had the right glass, but I suppose there is some danger to it. Probably shouldn’t have handled the liquid in it, though.