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11 unusual facts about goose


Berrichon dialect

The present indicative of the first person singular, the third person singular and the third person plural are all conjugated in the same manner, which results in phrases of the type, "j'menons les oies" ("I lead the geese").

Black Country Woman

On one occasion at Headley Grange when Plant tried to go outside to sing the song, he was attacked by a flock of angry geese.

Das Pop

Das Pop member Reinhard Vanbergen produced albums for The Hickey Underworld, Drums Are For Parades and Goose.

Gaggle

A gaggle is a term of venery for a flock of geese that is not in flight; in flight, the group can be called a skein.

Gásadalur

A more likely explanation is that Gásadalur (Goose Valley) is named after the wild geese, which from ancient times have travelled to the valley.

Goose

In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandres (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, and gosling respectively), New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gās.

Grimm Job

There, he finds the Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs (played by Stewie), but wakes up the Giant (played by Chris Griffin) who challenges him to a fight.

Jeff Agoos

Agoos (nicknamed Goose), was born in Geneva, Switzerland, when his father, who was a U.S. diplomat at the time, was posted there.

Quill

Goose feathers are most commonly used; scarcer, more expensive swan feathers are used for larger lettering.

Robert Earl Sawyer

What's Good for the Goose (1958) a two act comedy about marriage fidelity.

Y'a ben du changement

# "2033 (Le Manifeste d'un vieux chasseur d'oïes)" (2033 Manifesto of an Old Goose Hunter), – 4:10


12x12 Original Remixes

It features the same style Talk Talk logo as on History Revisited, the hanging goose from Asides Besides, the butterfly "face" from The Colour of Spring, the canary from The Very Best of Talk Talk, the tree of birds from Spirit of Eden, as well as numerous other animal related images.

Amphibious aircraft

The Grumman Corporation, late-comers to the game, introduced a pair of light utility amphibious aircraft - the Goose and the Widgeon during the late 1930s for the civilian market.

Amy Honey

The album was recorded at Tolan McNeil's Lucky Mouse Studios and also features Tolan McNeil, Gregory "Goose" MacDonald, Carolyn Mark, Diona Davies, Ida Nilsen, Grayson Walker and Calvin Dick.

Big Blue Nation

Former Wildcat Jack "Goose" Givens, who later played for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, has said that UK fans are generally more interested and informed than the typical NBA fan.

Brundage Mountain

Brundage is accessed from State Highway 55 via the turnoff to Goose Lake Road, four miles (6 km) west of central McCall.

Charles Ghigna

Award-winning Tickle Day: Poems from Father Goose (1994), which was chosen Pick of the List by the American Booksellers Association, is a collection of 30 poems previously submitted to magazines.

Christmas Price Index

The Christmas Price Index chose the items in the popular Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas" as its market basket: a partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves, three French hens, four calling birds, five gold(en) rings, six geese, seven swans, eight maids, nine dancing ladies, ten leaping lords, eleven pipers, and twelve drummers.

Cypress Lake High School

Charles Ghigna - poet and children's author known as "Father Goose;" taught English at Cypress Lake High School, 1967–1973

Down by the Bay

The Barney and the Backyard Gang video "Rock with Barney" featured the verses, "Did you ever see a bee with a sunburnt knee?", "Did you ever see a goose kissing a moose?", "Did you ever see a whale with a polka-dot tail?", "Did you ever see a bear try to curl somebody's hair?", "Did you ever see a guy playing tennis with a fly?", "Did you ever see a green dog jumping on a yellow log?", "Did you ever see a rhino kissing a dino?", and "Did you ever see some friends having fun that never ends?".

Ebdo Mihemed

The title of the Finnish buffalax is Niilin hanhet ("The Geese of the Nile") after a phrase repeated in the refrain.

Eddie Clarke

As a result of the tracks from this session, the quartet secured a deal with Anchor Records, and called the band Blue Goose.

Fort Myers Senior High School

Charles Ghigna - poet and children's author known as "Father Goose;" graduated 1964

Goose Bay

CFB Goose Bay, a Canadian Forces Base located in Happy Valley – Goose Bay

Goose Lane Editions

Authors published by Goose Lane include Alden Nowlan, Nancy Bauer, Herb Curtis, Reg Balch, Lynn Coady, Alan Cumyn, Sheree Fitch, Douglas Glover whose novel Elle won the 2003 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, and Riel Nason whose novel The Town That Drowned won the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize (Canada and Europe).

Goose River Bridge

Viking Bridge, also known as Goose River Bridge, near Portland, North Dakota, NRHP-listed

Goose step

Zim, in the show Invader Zim, walks with a goose step as his normal walking mechanism.

Goossen family

In the early 1980s as the promoter of the family he started a company named Ten Goose Boxing (named after the ten siblings) handling but not always promoting Michael Nunn, Terry Norris and the Ruelas brothers, Gabriel and Rafael.

Inuit music

They repeat brief motifs at staggered intervals, often imitating natural sounds, like those of geese, caribou or other wildlife, until one runs out of breath, trips over her own tongue, or begins laughing, and the contest is then over.

Kings Hill / Southwest Salmon

Artwork around the station recalls Tanner Creek, which was buried and infilled early in Portland's history, and a bronze goose paying tribute to the Goose Hollow neighborhood.

Lepas anserifera

Before about 1100 AD, the migration of birds was not properly understood and, in an attempt to explain the fact that the goose, Branta leucopsis, was never known to breed, it was believed that the birds' young hatched from the goose barnacles found in floating "nests" on the beach.

Malcolm Boyden

Malcolm became a pantomime dame, in 2000 when he took on the role of Mother Goose at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre.

Marc Goossens

Marc Goossens nicknamed The Goose (born 30 November 1969 in Geel) is a Belgian racecar driver who drove in Formula 3000 from 1994 to 1996 and part-time from 1999 to 2001.

Minced oath

The Cretan king Rhadamanthus is said to have forbidden his subjects to swear by the gods, suggesting that they swear instead by the ram, the goose or the plane tree.

Nathalie Dupree

She sought DeMint's seat as a long shot, seeking to "cook his goose." She expressed a willingness to work alongside fellow South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham to "bring home the bacon" for the state.

Nottingham Goose Fair

The goose fair has been used in television programmes as well as in films such as The Woman for Joe and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

Pantomime horse

The episode also features a pantomime goose and a pantomime dame Princess Margaret, which later appeared in the video for the George Harrison song "Crackerbox Palace".

Petrel

However, recent research and fossil finds such as Vegavis show that the Galliformes (Pheasants, Grouse and relatives), and Anseriformes (ducks, geese) are still not fully resolved.

Pollicipes polymerus

In a carefully designed series of experiments they recorded the direct and indirect results on the numbers of goose barnacles, sea mussels, acorn barnacles, starfish and predatory whelks (Nucella spp.) present in the area.

Ramon Goose

As of 2012 Goose has started work on the Desert Rock (band) a unique musical project which evolved after Goose travelled to the Sahara and also Dakar to combine his love of Berber and Mandinka rhythms and melodies with Blues Rock.

Rebecca Lacey

The campaign advert featured Lacey, Claire Goose, David Tennant, Hugo Speer and Ian Kelsey.

Robert Ayres Barnet

It was performed by the "Boston Cadets, who always present Barnet's pieces before they are staged professionally. The new piece is ... a fairy Mother Goose burlesque. The music is by A.B. Sloane. ... Augustus Pitou, Klaw & Erlanger, E.E. Rice, and other prominent gentlemen" attended.

Robert Darnton

In 1983 he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title The Meaning of Mother Goose.

Scottish Book

This problem was solved only in 1972 by Per Enflo, who was presented with the live goose in a ceremony that was broadcast throughout Poland.

Simeon Castille

He is married to singer Haley Hunt-Castille of Winter Park, FL, who was featured on the Madden NFL 07 soundtrack with "Won't Stop Runnin" featuring Goose and Reason.

Sweevo's World

Among the other characters inhabiting Knutz Folly are the Goose Which Laid The Golden Erg (sic), the Horrible Little Girls ("Minxes"), and the Goose-Stepping Dictators.

Thanadelthur

Five days later Thanadelthur was discovered by goose hunters from the Hudson's Bay Company.

The Goose of Sedan

The Goose of Sedan (German: Die Gans von Sedan) is a 1959 French-West German comedy war film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Hardy Krüger, Jean Richard and Dany Carrel.

The Gray Goose

The Gray Goose is also known as the equine star Sylvester Stallone, in the movie Sylvester, where he and Walnes doubled in the movie for the eventing shots.

The Wacky World of Mother Goose

The Wacky World of Mother Goose (1967) is an animated feature film made by Rankin/Bass, written by Romeo Muller and directed by Jules Bass based on Charles Perrault's stories and nursery rhymes.

VF-1

In Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise, during any flight scenes one can clearly see "GOOSE VF-1" on LTJG Nick Bradshaw's (Anthony Edwards') flight helmet, as well as when they are on the USS Enterprise in the opening scenes of the movie, where the tail flash of the VF-1 is clearly visible in some of the shots.

Waiting for the Worms

Following the images of the fascist crowd, the screaming face and a fascist breaking a man's skull from "What Shall We Do Now?", a dog biting meat off a hook then consumed by a larger one (from the Animals tour), and the famous goose-stepping hammer sequence, we see Pink yell "Stop".

Wallace Clark

The journey in Wild Goose by his son Miles, travelled around North Cape, Norway, and then through Russian waterways to the Black Sea, and on through the Mediterranean back to Northern Ireland.

What's Good for the Goose

What's Good For The Goose, also known as Girl Trouble, is a 1969 British comedy film, and was Norman Wisdom's last starring role in a film.