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Pyrite Parrot of Petaluma

chemistx2chemistx2
edited November 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
Why does no one ever use the parrot's FULL name? As a Petaluma High School teacher, I must register my protest!

Go Trojans!

Ms Smith
Science

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  • monkey_05_06monkey_05_06
    edited November 2009
    chemistx2 wrote: »
    Why does no one ever use the parrot's FULL name? As a Petaluma High School teacher, I must register my protest!

    Go Trojans!

    Ms Smith
    Science

    You forgot to say "of Petaluma". As in, "Ms. Smith of Petaluma". You fail at your own point. :p

    Also leave science out of this. Science never did anything to you!
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited November 2009
    chemistx2 wrote: »
    Why does no one ever use the parrot's FULL name? As a Petaluma High School teacher, I must register my protest!

    Go Trojans!

    Ms Smith
    Science

    Hey nice! I was never a Trojan (went to SVHS for some reason I can't quite remember, after going to Grant and PJHS) but my mom was principal at Carpe Diem for quite a few years, and then was principal at McNear Elementary.
  • chemistx2chemistx2
    edited November 2009
    So, who had the idea of Petaluma for the Parrot? The first time I heard it was quite the giggle...
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited November 2009
    No clue. We're just South of Petaluma in San Rafael. I imagine it was Stemmle, as he wrote the first episode, but I know a few Telltale folks live there.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited November 2009
    monkey_05_06 wrote: »
    Science never did anything to you!

    Not true... What hasn't science done to us?
  • ThunderPeel2001ThunderPeel2001
    edited November 2009
    So, er, what's the dealio with the parrot returning to parrot form in the last episode... and what IS Pyrite anyway?
  • FalancaFalanca
    edited November 2009
    Irishmile wrote: »
    Not true... What hasn't science done to us?

    Pay my bills.
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited November 2009
    Falanca wrote: »
    Pay my bills.

    He said what hasn't science done to us, not for us.
  • FalancaFalanca
    edited November 2009
    Hmm.

    Make me someone who pay his bills.

    Heh.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited November 2009
    Irishmile wrote: »
    Not true... What hasn't science done to us?

    Science hasn't killed me.
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited November 2009
    Just you wait. It will.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited November 2009
    give it time... it will
  • chemistx2chemistx2
    edited November 2009
    Science pays MY bills, and it has since I got out of college!
  • PecanBluePecanBlue
    edited November 2009
    Science pretty much pays for everything of mine right now too. Well, organizing for the sake of science at least.
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited November 2009
    ThunderPeel2001 wrote: »
    So, er, what's the dealio with the parrot returning to parrot form in the last episode... and what IS Pyrite anyway?

    Pyrite is commonly reffered to as Fools Gold, as back in ye ol' gold diggin' days pyrite was often confused with as gold.
  • ThunderPeel2001ThunderPeel2001
    edited November 2009
    GaryCXJk wrote: »
    Pyrite is commonly reffered to as Fools Gold, as back in ye ol' gold diggin' days pyrite was often confused with as gold.

    Is it renowned for its ability to self-animate and speak?
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited November 2009
    ThunderPeel2001 wrote: »
    Is it renowned for its ability to self-animate and speak?

    Nope, that's just good old-fashioned voodoo.
  • ThunderPeel2001ThunderPeel2001
    edited November 2009
    So it's a TALKING Pyrite Parrot.

    Still don't understand how/why it returned to its parrot shape after being melted down into a tortoise.
  • Captain MickeyCaptain Mickey
    edited November 2009
    ThunderPeel2001 wrote: »
    So it's a TALKING Pyrite Parrot.

    Still don't understand how/why it returned to its parrot shape after being melted down into a tortoise.

    Because in chapter 2 Guybrush
    melted the Pyrite Parrot of Petaluma and dropped it in a hole shaped like a tortoise.
  • BobbinBobbin
    edited November 2009
    ThunderPeel2001 wrote: »
    Still don't understand how/why it returned to its parrot shape after being melted down into a tortoise.
    I still don't understand how DeSinge got it after it was lost inside of a manatee.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited November 2009
    GaryCXJk wrote: »
    Pyrite is commonly reffered to as Fools Gold, as back in ye ol' gold diggin' days pyrite was often confused with as gold.

    ToMI is both entertaining and educational.
  • FitzoliverJFitzoliverJ
    edited November 2009
    chemistx2 wrote: »
    Why does no one ever use the parrot's FULL name?

    Because parrots don't have wrists. :D













    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petaluma,_California#Notable_events

    "Petaluma?"
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited November 2009
    Bobbin wrote: »
    I still don't understand how DeSinge got it after it was lost inside of a manatee.

    It was presumably lost during the "we're all being eaten" bit, and everything washes up on Flotsam eventually...
  • eg00wageg00wag
    edited November 2009
    Jake wrote: »
    It was presumably lost during the "we're all being eaten" bit, and everything washes up on Flotsam eventually...

    but it's going to be making a return from the dead appearance right?
  • Captain MickeyCaptain Mickey
    edited November 2009
    I could just imagine Guybrush dropping on his knees and screaming "IT JUST WON'T DIE!!" at the sight of the Pyrite Parrot, followed by it saying "*squawk* It's me! Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate."
  • chemistx2chemistx2
    edited November 2009
    FitzoliverJ wrote: »
    Because parrots don't have wrists. :D


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petaluma,_California#Notable_events

    "Petaluma?"
    I love people who do their research!

    There was actually T-Shirts for awhile with an ugly yellow bird on them, and the caption "Pet A Luma"... Thank goodness the Pyrite Parrot of Petaluma looks nothing like them.
  • PainDealerPainDealer
    edited November 2009
    eg00wag wrote: »
    but it's going to be making a return from the dead appearance right?

    Of course it will, in the Rise of the Pyrite God
  • BravoBravo
    edited November 2009
    As the powdered pyrite parrot (of petaluma) manifests a million billion 'consciousnesses' that all scream (albeit quietly as they are all just atomised powder) *SQUARK* It's me Guybrush Threepwood! Mighty Pirate. (Puntuation may vary)
  • ThunderPeel2001ThunderPeel2001
    edited November 2009
    Jake wrote: »
    It was presumably lost during the "we're all being eaten" bit, and everything washes up on Flotsam eventually...

    And why it returned to being a parrot shape? And also why DeSinge thought it would be fun to tie it to the top of the mighty horn thing. Thanks :p
  • FitzoliverJFitzoliverJ
    edited November 2009
    ThunderPeel2001 wrote: »
    And why it returned to being a parrot shape?
    Because the King of the Vacaylians did this to reward Guybrush
    And also why DeSinge thought it would be fun to tie it to the top of the mighty horn thing.
    I assumed this was because it had got caught up there from being buffeted by winds; however, in the plans in DeSinge's lab, Guyrbush was to be hanged there - and, after all, whose name does that Parrot answer to?
  • seanvanamanseanvanaman Telltale Alumni
    edited November 2009
    the pyrite parrot getting lost inside of the manatee was my way of shaking my first at mike and mark for passing it along to joe and i and into the third episode. pyrite albatross, more like. so i tried to write the most throw-away line i could, emphasizing it was GONE FOREVER to really stick it to mike and mark. alas, it came back with a bang (more of a buzzsaw really) in ep 4.
  • Toothless GibbonToothless Gibbon
    edited November 2009
    seanvanaman wrote: »
    the pyrite parrot getting lost inside of the manatee was my way of shaking my first at mike and mark for passing it along to joe and i and into the third episode. pyrite albatross, more like. so i tried to write the most throw-away line i could, emphasizing it was GONE FOREVER to really stick it to mike and mark. alas, it came back with a bang (more of a buzzsaw really) in ep 4.

    Haha, was it resurrected at the end of Chapter 2 just to make things difficult for you guys with chapter 3? lol
  • CadavreCadavre
    edited November 2009
    I've been to Petaluma once. It was actually quite nice there. :)
  • seanvanamanseanvanaman Telltale Alumni
    edited November 2009
    Toothless Gibbon wrote: »
    Haha, was it resurrected at the end of Chapter 2 just to make things difficult for you guys with chapter 3? lol

    there was definitely "seriously, that thing isn't gone yet?" talk, considering its resurrection is so...bizarre. but now the series wouldn't be the same without the little guy.
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited November 2009
    Irishmile wrote: »
    Not true... What hasn't science done to us?

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  • WillWill Telltale Alumni
    edited November 2009
    Bravo wrote: »
    As the powdered pyrite parrot (of petaluma) manifests a million billion 'consciousnesses' that all scream (albeit quietly as they are all just atomised powder) *SQUARK*

    ... was that a quantum physics joke?
  • BravoBravo
    edited November 2009
    Will wrote: »
    ... was that a quantum physics joke?

    Only when it isn't being observed! (I didn't see the 'quark' in squark hehe)

    I'll go back to my corner now hehe.
  • Captain MickeyCaptain Mickey
    edited November 2009
    doodo! wrote: »
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    ....Science is frightening...
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