How an unarmed
gooney bird successfully took out an armed fighter demanded an explanation.
Regional manager, Chris
Gooney, said: "We wanted to mark this fantastic occasion with our own challenge whilst raising some valuable funds in the process.
Tango events by nature are highly improvisational and when a group gets together for a Costume Milonga, or, dance event, you can expect the unexpected, such as every manner of extravagant costume from Margarette Meade to Jack Sparrow, to Ben Franklin, to Rumplestiltskin, to
Gooney Bird, and even Walt Disney himself (well, his likeness)," says Jim Hughes a student at Hartford Argentine Tango.
The 24-foot wide bridge that crosses
Gooney Creek is at the bottom of steep grades to both the north and south.
Taking our cue from street theater, from college sporting events, from lash mobs, and from the preachments of Saul Alinsky, we hide our otherwise timid souls behind face paint and engage in acts of
gooney exhibitionism the whole point of which is to get on cable TV.
Using the drama of the Thanksgiving pageant as background, we are treated to another episode in the delightful world of
Gooney Bird Greene.
As an oceanographer, I have casually observed that
gooney birds like to accompany our ship the RVArgo, using the aerodynamics of the ship's passage to soar effortlessly and feasting every time our messman empties meal waste.
Fans of Clementine and
Gooney Bird Greene will love the sweet, low-stress, old-fashioned tale of a Lower East Side tenement family coping with stray neighborhood kitties, a mean old neighbor and a frightened, newly arrived cousin from the old country.
Gutnick, Aviva Lucas, Robb, Michael, Takeuchi, Lori and Kotler, Jennifer, Always Connected: The New Digital Media Habits of Young Children, The Joan Ganz
Gooney Center at Sesame Workshop, New York, 2010, available free download from www.
Best friend Jonathan
Gooney was doing better and had amassed three victories in the 2002 season when, in September of that year and aged just 19, he decided that life was no longer worth living and hanged himself.
Gooney Bird Greene Lowry, Lois 2002 Summary: A new student loves telling true stories about her unusual life, including how she got her unusual name.
I have lost defenders Jordan Bell and Jamie
Gooney whom I had on loan from Portadown last season, but they now have a reserve side up and running again so the lads are now back at Shamrock Park," added Bell.
gooney - a variety of albatross with black feet