In Charles Schultz's "Peanuts" cartoon, Snoopy, the hound of heaven, says of Woodstock, the would-be bird of paradise, "Someday Woodstock is going to be a great eagle. He is going to soar thousands of feet above the ground." 

Woodstock then takes off into the air.  He's upside down and whirling around.  "Well, maybe a h…