All my life I've wondered about this boid, who appears on bumper stickers, on
Nigel Tufnel's guitar and as a tattoo on Nick Cage in "Raising Arizona". I knew that it was some sort of gearhead thing, but what? Was this "Thrush" related to the THRUSH in "
The Man From U.N.C.L.E."? What did Woody Woodpecker have to do with all this? Driving home last night I was stopped at a tollbooth behind a minivan with a peculiar assortment of bumperstickers: "You Haven't Worked Full-Time Until You've Been a
Mom", Eden Softball, and this woodpecker boid, and I was finally moved to Google it-- something I should have done years ago. There are apparently several of these boids. One is named Mr. Horsepower and is the logo of
Clay Smith Cams. Another is the Thrush Bird--
Thrush makes mufflers. Apparently the difference is that Mr. Horsepower smokes a cigar. W
alter Lantz asked for permission to use Mr. Horsepower's likeness for Woody Woodpecker, so Mr. H is the original. I'm still not sure where Thrush fits in with all this. Awesome tat though.
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