The film is celebrated for its surreal humor, such as when Porky is chasing the bird, it disappears and suddenly the Warner Brothers shield emerges from the horizon's vanishing point, as it typically did at every cartoon's beginning, and complete with the standard stretched " boing " of the steel guitar.

The bat wing is a membrane stretched across four extremely elongated fingers, while the airfoil of the bird wing is made of feathers, which are strongly attached to the forearm ( the ulna ) and the highly fused bones of the wrist and hand ( the carpometacarpus ), with only tiny remnants of two fingers remaining, each anchoring a single feather.

* Most of the creases in a stretched bird base are present in the regular bird base.

The neck is stretched perpendicularly, bill pointing skyward, while the bird freezes, becoming astonishingly obliterated amongst its reedy environment.

The bird holds itself upright with neck and legs stretched, and it faces the other bird.

It was a small bird ( from beaktip to " tail " tip, fully stretched out ), a flightless member of the rail family.

The logistics of managing a national bird atlassing project, with 3000 volunteer atlassers mapping the avifauna of a continent, stretched the resources of the organisation beyond reasonable limits, but the RAOU was forced to grow in the process.

At the slope's base coils of concertina stretched out of eye range like a wild tangle of children's hoops, stopped simultaneously, weirdly poised as if awaiting the magic of the child's touch to start them all rolling again.

In the vignette of Florence at the base, papery or vellum-like material is cut and stretched and scrolled into a cartouche ( cartoccia ).

Since the days of the Lucky Lee Ranch, the boundaries of Lehigh Acres have stretched to cover, including the runways of the former Buckingham Army Airfield, a major Army Air Forces training base that was closed at the end of World War II.

In the All-Star Game itself, he stretched for a ball while playing first base and slipped on the Astrodome turf, rupturing his left medial hamstring.

Cramer was a spray leadoff hitter who mostly slapped singles and sometimes stretched singles into doubles -- although he was a non-factor as a base stealer.

In the 13th century, marshlands would have stretched away to the south of the castle, with the tide occasionally reaching up as far as the base of hill itself, and the area would have been more wooded than today.

Also, base rings are available to assist in retaining the scrotal and pubic skin from being stretched along the shaft, once again improving the efficiency.

The base is composed of 13 piers stretched over of land and of water.

These villages stretched from Longkiau in the south ( 125 km from the Dutch base at Fort Zeelandia to Favorlang in central Taiwan, 90 km to the north of Fort Zeelandia.

It consisted of a blue base, with a white line that stretched the length of the coach, and with gold stars on the rear quarterpanels of each side.

The Union cavalry column, which at times stretched for over, reached the Confederate forward supply base at Beaver Dam Station that evening.

A wide ventilator intake was now stretched across the base of the windshield and a chrome visored headlamp look was emphasized.

A wide ventilator intake was now stretched across the base of the windshield on all bodystyles and the chrome visored headlamp look was emphasized.

“ pass through a few acres of unplowed unimproved prairie, one remnant of that sea of grass which formally stretched from the Mississippi to the base of the Rocky Mountains.

The Ares V will use stretched five or " five-point-five "- segment versions of the SRBs ; a new, larger tank using Shuttle External Tank construction and insulation technology ; and newer, cheaper expendable rocket engines ( the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RS-68 engine, identical to those used on the Delta IV EELV ) located at the base of the new tank.

The city limits were stretched westwards to accommodate the administrative base, and the township of Bankipore took shape along the Bailey Road ( originally spelt as Bayley Road, after the first Lt.

This game is played by two people, with small rackets, called battledores, made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a base of some light material, like cork, with trimmed feathers fixed round the top.

The transducer is a null-type instrument and employs a stretched diaphragm, 0.001 in. thick and 1 in. in diameter.

One simple method of measuring the expansion of the heart is to tie a thin rubber tube, filled with mercury, around the heart and record the change in resistance as the tube is stretched.

In Robert L. Forward's novel Timemaster, the wormhole is a living organism resembling a fourth-dimensional sea anemone, " stretched " to cover the distance between a spaceship and a satellite on the home planet.

Northumbria once stretched as far north as what is now southeast Scotland, including Edinburgh, and as far south as the Humber Estuary.

The banjo is a four -, five-or six-stringed instrument with a piece of animal skin or plastic stretched over a circular frame.

Carbon fiber is made by pyrolysis of extruded and stretched filaments of polyacrylonitrile ( PAN ) and other organic substances.

Decerebrate posturing is a stereotypical posturing in which the legs are similarly extended ( stretched ), but the arms are also stretched ( extended at the elbow ).

A small drawing of wood that can be repeatedly drawn in a matching tiled pattern ( like desktop wallpaper ) is stretched and drawn onto the walls ' final shape.

Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a drum stick, to produce sound.

The shell almost invariably has a circular opening over which the drumhead is stretched, but the shape of the remainder of the shell varies widely.

Single-headed drums typically consist of a skin which is stretched over an enclosed space, or over one of the ends of a hollow vessel.

A drum is called a membranophone, or an instrument that creates sound by striking a stretched membrane with some type of object, usually a rounded stick.

" Our military has been stretched thin by our deployments in the Middle East, and we must welcome the service of any American who is willing and able to do the job.

With his two-faced servant and steward Isimud, " Enki, in the swampland, in the swampland lies stretched out, ' What is this ( plant ), what is this ( plant ).

Baudhayana ( c. 8th century BCE ) composed the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra, the best-known Sulba Sutra, which contains examples of simple Pythagorean triples, such as:,,,, and as well as a statement of the Pythagorean theorem for the sides of a square: " The rope which is stretched across the diagonal of a square produces an area double the size of the original square.

Hence the sphere is mapped onto the vertical cylinder, and the cylinder is stretched to double its length.

The use of a neck-sizing die in conjunction with moderate pressure loads may extend the life of the case significantly by minimizing the amount of case that is work hardened or stretched.

The hammered dulcimer is a stringed musical instrument with the strings stretched over a trapezoidal sounding board.

At its greatest extent, the empire stretched to the north along the natural boundaries of the Himalayas, and to the east stretching into what is now Assam.

Though using both flat wooden panel and stretched canvas paintings, Catholics traditionally have also favored images in the form of three-dimensional statuary, whereas in the East statuary is much less widely employed.

" Love's ' Forever Changes ,' from 1967, is a lost classic of a period when The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Byrds and other top acts routinely stretched pop / rock's boundaries.