Blogs

Stupid the bird interferes with Diamond Lil's satellite television reception in this strip from September 24, 2014.

Dan Piraro has been brilliantly creating Bizarro for over thirty years now (the daily panel debuted January 22, 1985) and over the course of those years, he has done various satires on the pirate with "parrot on the shoulder" cliché.  This one is from May 20, 2005:

A little Calvin and Hobbes today.  Since virtually all the strips in my archive are from the reruns at GoComics and are often retagged with the repeat date, I use an online database to find out the original publication date (I do the same thing with Peanuts, for the same reason).  This strip originally appeared on February 16, 1987:

Rhymes With Orange from December 9, 2007.  I knew parrots were intelligent, but ... ?

Strange Brew from June 4, 2012.

And in the same vein as yesterday's toon, here is Non Sequitur from May 23, 2014.

Speed Bump from April 17, 2013 attempts to answer the age old question while poking fun at another cliché in the process:

Today's entry, one of Scott Breier's "Noodles", is brought to you by the California Lottery.  (Just kidding.)

To me, this Bizarro from July 8, 2005 serves as reinforcement to my policy of letting my budgies out of their cage as much as possible.  I did that with the very first budgie I had, in 1968, and the policy has worked well all the way through my present small flock of Mickaboo budgies.  Enjoy.

This Cheezburger entry, posted on July 6, 2014, seems appropriate during the heat waves of the late summer/early fall.  Besides, that bird's expression makes me laugh.