How about stunned parrot? It's in sketch, fits grammatically and sounds a bit silly as well. On the whole sleeping parrot sounds better than resting, but I'd love to just have "The Parrot" then we can all go off and make as many goals as we can for the euphemisms to our hearts content. Bob (I think this discussion does at least proves one thing - good choice on the theme guys) On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Daniel W. Johnson <panoptes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 16:39 -0400 2008-08-05, Mark D. McKean wrote: >> >> If Dead isn't an option, I think Sleeping sounds better, even if it's not >> a >> direct quote. Resting Parrot just sounds weird to me, as a word >> combination. > > I think that's the essence of all the declared preferences for "sleeping > parrot". The construct "resting <noun>" does show up sometimes, just not as > frequently as "sleeping <noun>". > -- > Daniel W. Johnson > panoptes@xxxxxxxxxx > http://members.iquest.net/~panoptes/ > 039 53 36 N / 086 11 55 W > _______________________________________________ > Fluxx mailing list > Fluxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/fluxx > -- Let no man hinder this mail, nor open it without our authority on pain of pain. - Lord Vetinari