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A parrot named Poly of course.

Which compliments the official food pBj.

And the official song "Have You Seen The Stars Tonight" from "Blows Against The Empire".

Official cloth: Polyester. Or a Polyester cotton blend. I used to have a really nifty yellow polyester leisure suit I threw away years ago. I had a yellow shirt and a yellow tie to go with it. I guess I'm going to miss it.

MSimon wrote:A parrot named Poly of course.

Bussard is german for vulture.

How about the official growth as Polyp.

Polliwog as well!

Official green coolent- polyethylene glycol. And it is minty fresh!

There is a song named "Nebel" by rammstein. Can't stand their music though.

Official river Nebel

I take it the official movie should be Polyanna?

And I think the official song should be Polly Welly Doodle.

After all, for more of us than is perhaps economically optimum, don't we Polly-welly doodle all the day?

And before any of you chime in with "Its Wally" not "Welly", I know, but I sing it with an accent

Official computer and news search engine incorrect hit is Polywell computers

Nebel means "fog" in German. I wonder if plasma qualifies?

Who sez Bussard means vulture?

Not so! In Europe, a bussard is a broad-wing broad-tail hawk (a buteo hawk), such as an American red-tailed hawk. The common use of "buzzard" to mean vulture in the US is a corruption of this term.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... kamera.jpg

"USA, Buzzard on a Film Camera" Note:Although the caption says "Bussard", which in Europe is a Buteo, In America, that is a Buzzard. This looks like a turkey vulture.

Tom Ligon wrote:Who sez Bussard means vulture?

Not so! In Europe, a bussard is a broad-wing broad-tail hawk (a buteo hawk), such as an American red-tailed hawk. The common use of "buzzard" to mean vulture in the US is a corruption of this term.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... kamera.jpg

"USA, Buzzard on a Film Camera" Note:Although the caption says "Bussard", which in Europe is a Buteo, In America, that is a Buzzard. This looks like a turkey vulture.

I stand accused of using the internet for shallow research and I plead... Guilty!

Your sin is forgivable.

It was a different matter for those of us working for him. While he was arguably "a sweet old buzzard", it was best to know the proper root of the name. Fortunately, I'd looked it up before I met him, which probably helped us get off to a good start.

It is more than time to bring some clarification:
The scientific name of the bird called Bussard in Germany is buteo buteo. It is called common buzzard in England and buse in France. The buzzard is extremely common along European roads but unfortunately, you folks who live on the wrong side of the ocean did not have any on your continent, so you started calling vultures buzzards instead. Does anybody want a vulture for a totem (though it is the largest and most majestic bird I have seen)?
As Tom mentioned, this bird has several relatives in the US such as the chickenhawk, would that really be glorious?
There is a bird called busard d'Amérique in French, literally American buzzard, which is undoubtedly American. Alas it is called northern harrier or marsh hawk in English, Kornweihe in German and Circus cyaneus hudsonius in Latin. Do you still follow me?
I think we'd better leave it open which bird of prey is the best totem for the raptor reactor.

"The World's Simplest Fusion Reactor" was originally intended to appear with a story called "Promised Land", which featured a character named Quincy Victor Harris. He always went by Q. V., except his wife called him "Q." I never wanted there to be any doubt this was a fictionalized R. W. Bussard. He absolutely knew this, and had veto power over everything in the story ... the character was not permitted to do anything he considered dumb, like planning a space mission that went awry. This cramped the story so much that I was unable to sell it.

I offered a choice of names of hawks for the character. One of the names was rejected out of hand as it matched a physicist he knew. "Not him, he's an idiot!". So we settled on the Harris hawk. I believe there is a desert southwest connection that fitted him.

Bueto bueto, I have seen it from my window.

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8283780

My candidate would be a retriever