Big Bird RIP

[Rye Miles #13621]

Caroll Spinney dead at 85

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/caroll-spinney-puppeteer-who-gave-life-to-big-bird-of-sesame-street-dies-at-85/2019/12/08/9a305ff0-402d-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html?outputType=amp

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Also, Oscar the Grouch

[Rye Miles #13621]

They played a short interview with him and he said he had his right arm extended into the bird's head to operate it! He said he  couldbe good at painting ceilings!! 

[Major Crimes]

My generation in Australia were so much the Sesame Street kids.

 

Our parents hated the way we all said Zee and not Zed

 

Vale Big Bird and Oscar you live on in all of us.

[J. Mark Flint #31954 LIFE]

I'm trying to break my brother in law of the use of the term "Zed" but my sister won't let me hit him.  I am currently using a spray bottle of water every time I hear him say it.

 

[Cyrus Cassidy #45437]

Big Bird was ruined for me when I was in law enforcement.  I had a co-worker who was 6' 5" and rotund in the middle, with blonde hair.  He was aptly nicknamed "Big Bird" because he resembled the character if Big Bird were to ever don a blue uniform.  

 

Then this jackwagon was arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to 90-something years in prison for child pornography and a BUNCH of other charges.  

 

Big Bird will never be the same for me.