the 'great texas bird'

Part 1

My dad, Grandpa W, decided to tell the boys a story a while ago (Thanksgiving, maybe?) about the 'Great Texas Bird'. It is a bird that Grandpa W informed them says "woohoo! woohoo!"

After a couple quizzes about what the bird said, the idea of the 'Great Texas Bird' was firmly entrenched in Andrew & Peter's minds...nevermind the fact it doesn't exist.


Part 2

The boys are chatting at lunch about something, when they hear a bird singing.
Peter: "I like grackels. They're my favorite bird!"
Me: "Really?! I don't like them at all - why do you?"
Peter: "Because they're pretty singers."
Me: "I think their singing is yucky." (they sound like they're dying).

Peter: "Well, I like the birds with white and black spots."
Me: "Oh! THOSE are mockingbirds - not grackels!" (phew...grackels are miserable birds - mockingbirds are okay).
Peter: "Whopping-birds?! What are whopping-birds?!" (laughing b/c
Me (chuckling, b/c we're back to whopping-birds again...): "Mockingbirds are the state bird of Texas."
Peter: "Is that like the great Texas bird?"
Me: "Um, no...not really."
Peter: "Well...do they say 'wha-hoo'?"
Me: "Nope...no, they definitely don't say wha-hoo."
Peter, slightly confused: "Oh."

Grandpa W: 1
Texas & it's birds: 0