It seems to me that the phrase “fly like a bird” has been fully, FULLY used and that there is no sense using it for any further purposes. It’s a little like saying “meow like a cat.” I suppose a person might write a song in which they wish to express their feelings of flying like a helicopter, or flying like a thrown baseball, but I think if they don’t clarify it we’ll all just ASSUME more of a bird-like flight and there’s no need to specify.
I do think the phrase could be revived if songwriters/poets/etc. started specifying the TYPE of bird, especially if it were a bird with a pretty-sounding name. “Fly like a sparrow.” “Fly like a nightingale.” (Perhaps not “Fly like a flamingo.”)
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We are getting back into our Webkinz craze around here. It happened, I think, because after a year the Webkinz account shifts from Bought-a-Pet Mode to Free Mode: you still have some limited features of the account (and you don’t lose the online version of your pet), but it’s frustrating to keep encountering things you can’t do. Elizabeth and I each have several pets, and each pet adds a year to the account (I THINK/HOPE they run consecutively rather than overlapping, though I haven’t looked into it), but Edward and Henry only had one pet each so their accounts got bumped down to Free Mode. I like to buy some Fun Summer Stuff anyway, so I had each of them choose a new Webkinz, with the general guideline that it should be in the $6-or-less category. Edward chose the Lil’Kinz Persian cat and Henry chose the Silversoft cat.
Well, and then it seemed a little unfair that Elizabeth wouldn’t get a new one, considering the reason HER account hadn’t expired is that she’d asked for a Webkinz for Christmas and also saved up for one with her allowance. So I let her choose one too, and she chose a whale, and now she has TWO whales and is all happy and excited and dressing her online whales in virtual top hats and so forth, and having new pets has reignited ALL of us.
Fly like a penguin?
In my experience, they do not run consecutively. If you log the four you got for Christmas all at once, it’s still just one year. When my kids were excited about webkinz I used to keep one back that I didn’t log on so if would last longer.
I’m old and as a teenager enjoyed “Fly Like an Eagle” by the Steve Miller Band. (I had to look up the band’s name because I couldn’t remember it. OLD!) So, I think that bird is taken/used already. Fly like a sparrow works for me. Oooh, how about fly like a hummingbird?! That’s more like a helicopter with the hovering and whatnot.
Now I’m off to look up the lyrics for “Fly Like an Eagle” because I’m not sure I ever had them right. (…to the sea?)
I was going to mention the same song :). Nellie Furtado also had a bird/fly song a few years back “I’m like a bird, I only fly away; I don’t know wheremy soul is, I don’t know where my home is”.
We are also back in to Webkinz…after a trip to the DollarStore (limited selection but only 3 dollars)! It is a good indoor game for summer when it gets too hot out to play outside. And you are teaching them that hard work at the games earns you more points for buying stuff! I hate all of our Ipad apps where you have to pay actual money for the opportunity to play.
Also I’m really good at Smoothie Moves and Goober’s Atomic Adventure.
Yes, I’m afraid they overlap. Your account will go into free mode one year after your most recent adoption. Sigh.
Also, more and more of the very best stuff from the earliest years has gone DELUXE. You have to buy a deluxe membership to get access to it. I guess I understand, now that the craze has cooled and Webkinz can be had at dollar stores, but it still peeves me no end.
As everyone’s already mentioned it does overlap, which is why, every year on my birthday I get a new one. I don’t normally play webkinz, but when you’ve had an account going for six years, it’s pretty hard to stop. And come on, what’s cooler than a new webkinz on your 15th birthday?