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The Popinjay founder said everybody is doing the job of five to 10 people, which can be distributed between co-founders.

Murray Pittock, in a private communication, plausibly suggests that Ramsay was introduced to Lyndsday's work by Archibald Pitcairne and his circle, but no confirmation of that introduction more generally or how he would have encountered 'Popinjay' in it has turned up as yet.

popinjay only interested in inheriting the throne after Elizabeth."

One day she slips out of the house, following her only friend Popinjay, a curious and colourful little bird, only to find an angry dragon hidden in the forest.

you [Socrates], because you strut like a popinjay through the streets and cast your eyes sideways and, unshod, endure many woes and wear a haughty expression for our sake [my emphasis]

Capt T is a perfect little popinjay. He & a "colonel somebody who didn't look any too sensible" were talking.

Mallon presents all of these people with great tenderness, with the possible exception of Richardson, the preening popinjay who, appropriately, likes to paint birds and whose pride in his own rectitude enables him to escape the catastrophe for a life on the rubber-chicken circuit.

He famously traded insults with George Galloway who described him as "a drink-soaked for mer Trotskyist popinjay".

There was clearly a strong attraction, despite Dudley looking like a preening popinjay. Elizabeth might have married him, but there was an impediment; Dudley's wife of 11 years.

It was another Joe, Joe Popinjay, who, thirty yards ahead of me, was trying to keep his seat on a neurastenic bucking roan" (187-88).

Pearce, Rabbit Hot, Rabbit Cold, Chronicles of a Vanishing Australian Community, Canberra, Popinjay, 1991, p.

Meanwhile, in a separate move, Ferguson is part of a consortium about to clinch a deal for the Popinjay Hotel in the Clyde Valley, near his Lanarkshire mansion.

Some of these names may be unfamiliar: SIRENIAN (a member of the mammalian order Sirenia--sea cows); SPRINGER (a flying fish); WANDEROO (a langur monkey); STAGGARD (a stag in its 4th year); COMMENSAL (an animal which lives attached to another and shares its food); WARRIGAL (Australian wild dog); KOLINSKI (a mink); HARTEBEEST(an antelope); DIDELPHIS (an opossum); BUSH BABY (an African lemur); FILANDER (an intestinal worm; also a Kangaroo); MASTODON (an extinct elephant-like mammal); POPINJAY (a parrot); PETREL (a small sea bird); CURASSOW (a turkey-like bird); STANYEL (a kestrel)."

"The situation in Iran is worse because an ultra-conservative government is now in power, led by an outrageous popinjay of a president, awash in oil revenues, closer than ever to mastering the nuclear technology that could lead to developing nuclear weapons, and brimming with confidence.