I grew up near there, and still had to google to figure out what the fark "distelfink" meant.

When the pry my distelfink from my cold, dead hands!

/Grew up Pennsylvania Dutch
//Always liked the word distelfink

These are all over the place in my hometown. Bad luck to steal indeed.....

It's not news, it's Distelfink.com

Sounds like something Dwight Schrute would own.

It certainly is bad luck to steal a distelfink (WTF?) ...for the owner.

Grew up in Reading PA. Suprisingly never noticed these things even in Lancaster.

"Claypoole said the distelfink isn't particularly valuable, estimating it might be worth a couple of hundred dollars."

You've got to be kidding me... For a plywood bird? Suppose the PA Dutch do not know the value of a dollar/don't pay land taxes.

Is that anything like a moss covered three handled family gredunza?

"Claypoole said the distelfink isn't particularly valuable, estimating it might be worth a couple of hundred dollars."

Only to a tourist. I live here, we call those "firewood".

I will give it back only for a case of fausnaughts

Now that's a word I've not heard in years. I grew up in the area and actually had a couple of old ones.

FTFA: "Hex signs, once thought to ward off evil..."

That one must have been defective.

Disselfink is German dialect for "Thistle Finch", or the Goldfinch. The American Goldfinch is very fond of thistle seeds.

Is that any relation to lutefisk?

Blipvert: Is that anything like a moss covered three handled family gredunza?

DAMN YOU!!

/was gonna post that

Blipvert
Is that anything like a moss covered three handled family gredunza?

Damn. It's been decades since I heard that. +1

/obscure?

This guy? (new window)

Wanted for questioning

Most likely adorning some dorm room wall at Drexel.

might be worth a couple of hundred dollars

Uh, no.

But still, it's not right to steal even worthless things like this.

reddfrogg: Disselfink is German dialect for "Thistle Finch", or the Goldfinch. The American Goldfinch is very fond of thistle seeds.

I learned something new today.

lefande: This guy? (new window)

bzzzt


/1965
//worst film ever

Just here to say "distelfink".

Relative of the Oogle Bird?

/Oogle, Oogle!

/wanted for questioning...
//...the one on the right, couldnt find better pic ;-(
////actually that was the only pic i could find.

the distlefink should be so lucky
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