The driftwood he recorded in his "Martha's Vineyard" series, circa 1943, seems to have a whimsical other life.
This time Scrat is distracted by love, and he and his inamorata, who is also his rival for possession of that acorn, breath whimsical, inventive life into the movie.
They made whimsical still-life arrangements, filling laboratory flasks with colored water and making feather-duster bouquets.
The whimsical film began life on stage as a production for Adelaide's Windmill Theatre in 2014.
The plaques will nod in the direction of Henderson's plaque and they will whisper, "Hey, Rickey is Rickey," the 20-year description of his whimsical approach to life.
Each paper – which ran from 30 to 50 pages – includes photographs, features, caricatures of officers and men, whimsical observations of life in Antarctica, cartoons, weather reports and a range of breathtaking watercolours of the polar landscape – most of them works by zoologist Edward Wilson, Scott's deputy, and a painter of considerable talent.
I took on a less sober, more whimsical view of life as I landed a job at a second-hand games shop.
Live action or animation, talent displays or a-day-in-the-life, whimsical raps or messages from the heart?
Oddly, and despite all indications, I'm now thinking I might have a future in humor, that it could become what road trips are for my buddy Bob and high-end burgers are for Craig, my whimsical late-in-life renewal.
Until our economy went kerflooey, it was a whimsical reverie about the life that you could swap for the one that you were leading.
