Red and Rover by Brian Basset for March 22, 2021

Rover is in spring practice to chase those conniving squirrels.

The grass is riz?

Oh now that’s a throwback to the REAL old times, Brian. https://www.gocomics.com/redandrover/2001/03/20

Rover is red in the face now, he sure iz…..

At chasing birdies, Rover iz a wiz!

Just doing my job.

Enough with the riz grass and birds, where in the heck is Popsicle Pete?

That looks like Rover’s walk of shame.

Yep and the pollen is out. BTW, the yellow stuff you see is not what makes folks suffer. My allergist says it is too big. The stuff driving us crazy is too small to see.

That’s so old it’s got whiskers!

The Brooklyn National Anthem.

Ah, that old rhyme from back in the day… I remember saying it in school, many years ago.

Many, many years ago…

I’m… I’m old, I guess would be the key takeaway here

Somewhere along the way, someone changed up the words (Yes, I know those are original to Ogden Nash). I heard: Spring is sprung, Winter is spent; I wonder where, the birdies went.

“Spring has sprung, the grass has riz, I wonder where the birdies is?The bird is on the wing, but that’s absurd, the wing is on the bird”Courtesy of my dad…

The spelunkers’ version:The sinks have sunk.The ground has riz.I wonder where the caverns is.

The look on his face says it all.

Spring has sprung,

The grass has riz

Where last year’s

Reckless driver iz.

Burma-Shave

(I think this was from a MAD magazine spoof of Burma-Shave signs)

[ ✨❤️✨ ] Love™ panel 4 where Rover is doing that “I’m just innocently whistling . . .” thing that we’ve all done when we don’t want to be caught for having done something.