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Today's 'toon is one that graced the old Mickaboo humor section for a few years before we started this blog.  It's still a goodie:

Speed Bump from June 13, 2012.  Fairly self-explanatory.

9 pm - final update:

The matching gift events for today have ended.  THANK YOU for your collective generosity!  Together you raised $17K - exceeding our $15K goal.

We are hoping to hear tomorrow from Jasmine's vet as to whether she can leave the hospital.  We will update you here.  

THANK YOU for enabling Mickaboo to fulfill our rescue mission - we truly couldn't do so without your support.

Our fourth June 11 strip is WuMo from last year.

As we reach June 11 "for real", we have the first appearance of a strip which often deviates from its title characters for a week at a time of unrelated one-shot gags.  The strip is Mother Goose and Grimm and this strip was published on June 11, 2003 ... a nice twist on the fact that today's parrots evolved from dinosaurs:

And now, your weekly dose of Cheezburger.

Bizarro from this date in 2013.  (Na na na na na na, na na na ...)

Our second June 11 'toon is Rhymes With Orange from 2004.

Today is our first June 11 of four that will come in the next seven days.  (See earlier note back on the 3rd.)

Our first June 11 is from 2010 and is the Speed Bump for that date:

I have discovered, much to my surprise (since i don't read the strip) that there is a parrot character in Hagar the Horrible that makes an appearance from time to time.  I've dug up a few of those, and today's is from June 6, 2009: