But the Big Bird jokes kept rolling, along with the usual fact-free attack against the Republican candidate.
And, thanks to noise-suppression technology, it won't generate the sonic boom that prevents the big bird from landing in cities like Tokyo.
Traditionalists point out that the Big Bird has been tied to the region ever since William Boeing built his first aircraft in his boathouse on a Seattle lake in 1916.
So does that mean that this is the end of the road for Big Bird?
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And this was just -- there's been a strong grassroots outcry over the attacks on Big Bird.
The characters for which he wrote, Miss Piggy, Big Bird, the Cookie Monster, the Old Geezers, Oscar the Grouch and so on, are splendid parodies of people.
But the bird is big and we've still got a lot of tests to do.
Beloved characters include Elmo, the Cookie Monster and Big Bird.
Larry Bird was the big brother to Michael Jordan in 1993.
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We haven't heard from the Governor any specifics beyond Big Bird and eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood in terms of how he pays for that.
Obama and Big Bird in the White House showing kids how easy and delicious it is to eat healthy snacks like fruits and vegetables and demonstrating fun ways to get active like dancing and jumping.
However, the most exciting cameo came from Big Bird, who arrived with this guy!
We didn't know that Big Bird was driving the federal deficit. (Laughter.) But that's what we heard last night.
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While Romney promises to cut wasteful spending ( remember Big Bird is on the chopping block), he also intends to increase other kinds of spending, like defense.
This vast and pristine tract is flooded for much of the year, providing excellent provender for some of the greatest wildlife diversity of any national park on the continent, including hundreds of bird species, many kinds of antelope and the big game that feed on them, such as lions, leopards and cheetahs.
Well, when it comes to Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch is no match.
Apparently this, along with Big Bird, is driving the deficits. (Laughter.) And he would have supported an extreme measure in Massachusetts that would have outlawed some forms of contraception.
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Is Big Bird set to go on the dole?
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And even though you made the point about cutting the deficit, a lot of people will read about it, hear about this ad -- we're a month away from the election and we're talking about Big Bird.
The volume of tweets surged from the moment Romney questioned federal funding to PBS and Big Bird.
Middle-aged readers may think that Big Bird's popularity peaked in the 1970s, but his earnings power remains strong.
Since then, Barzelay has released a solo acoustic record (2006's Bitter Honey), recorded Clem Snide's swan song (the still-unreleased Hungry Bird), and made Lose Big, a smart and compact collection of rock 'n' roll conversation-starters.
They had little to do with Big Bird, binders full of women and bayonets, despite the fact that these sound bites blew up on social media.
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The struggling bird fitted nicely into the pelican's capacious pouch but was too big to be swallowed, so a prolonged mastication took place before the appalled visitors.
This may be a very big bird, indeed, and perhaps another source of dense energy for the next century, as opposed to the dinosaurs of distributed solar and wind.
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His decision to take this bird in the hand may be seen as George Osborne placing quite a big bet that markets and economy are going to get worse before they get better.
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But it also demonstrated how the media are driving us to distraction with silly sidebars, reducing entire presidential debates to Big Bird, bayonets and binders full of women.
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Big Issue founder and editor-in-chief John Bird has paid tribute to the two vendors and said everyone at the magazine was "absolutely devastated".
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Romney was trying to soften his image by invoking Big Bird, but Obama nailed him as childish in his understanding of adult things with the battleship zinger.
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