A Thread About Nothing

You've attracted the attention of the resident Nothing bird expert, Hess...a correction, the Family to which the Snipe belongs is actually the Scolopacidae Family. of which the Wilson's Snipe is the species found in USA.

You're welcome.

@ Toire   Yeah I know that a Snipe is a North American Bird but the yahoos out there on a snipe hunt are looking for some mysterious furry creature because they have been duped.

Yeah that was very cool tune by The Band lofina I remember it well.

                                             A Snipe

  And it being the seventh of January...Merry Christmas to all the Ukrainians ....including myself..

   ---   Ah yes I luv Herb Alpert and his band. Another group that was active back in those days was " The Baja Marimba Band ", also very good. 

....the lonely bull didn't like his blue jeans ?

uhhhh... no. I'm a kid, and my parents don't allow me to eat after dinner

  Speaking of bulls......did you see the video on Yahoo last week. It was a college football game. They wanted the mascots to meet each other. They had a Texas longhorn bull.....and a small terrier dog...dress in RED.   What the hell we're they thinking??  The bull sees red and goes crazy. Poor dog was running for his life.                            https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2019/1/1/18164553/bevo-uga-sugar-bowl-fight

That snipe hunt, I've always met the expression as a wild duck hunt. Maybe it is the way they translate it to Spanish.

Hmm, there is an English phrase "wild goose chase" I wonder if that's related.

A snipe hunt, to me, is such a niche cultural thing that I wouldn't expect other cultures to be aware of it. I mean, I've barely heard of it.

For context, the way I've usually seen it is something like a youth group (like boy scouts) and they're gathered together in some wooded area and told to hunt snipes, and so they run around in the dark on a faux adventure. It's like a joke an older child or adult may play on a younger child.

But a "wild goose chase" can be applied to all sorts of things. Like an adult answering an advertisement for some get rich quick scheme.

I've never seen that expression in Spanish, only in texts originally written in English.

I've never heard of a wild duck hunt

Ron, I don't know but some people say that bulls can't spot colours. Actually I've seen many bullfights without red capes.

Well, they say "pato salvaje".

Ah, if I'd translate a translation back to English, probably it wouldn't resemble the original in the least...

Führer

That's kind of out of the blue there hedgehog.

I have to go the DMV tomorrow to register the Woman's new, used car. I dread it, so many people just sitting there with their thumb somewhere where the sun don't shine and I am 100+ in line.