The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for May 14, 2022

Or maybe he is leaving something bad on your hat.

You’ll have grandbirdies, Brutus! You’ll just need to be very, very still for a few weeks. Just a few.

Feather in your cap?

When I was an underclassman in USAF OTS, we were lined up outside the barracks in our blues to march to breakfast. A bird in the tree above me shat, dropping excrement on the bill of my hat, from which it bounced to my coat, and finally onto my spit shined shoe.I said, “Sir! Officer Trainee T______ requests permission to return to the barracks.”Our flight commander, an upperclassman, asked, “Why Does OT T_______ want to return to the barracks?”“Bird shit on me, sir!”Permission granted, so I returned to the barracks, stuffed my uniform into my laundry bag, put my shoes in my panic box (A drawer they were not allowed to inspect), and put on my other uniform, a 1505 tan uniform with a flight cap.All day long, I got gigged for being out of uniform. My explanation that a bird had shat on me did not get me any sympathy.

I pity this poor guy. He started off as a born loser. Now he’s turning into a birdbrain as well!

Poor Brutus. He somehow angered a witch, so she made him marry her daughter.

A bird in the hat is worth two in the bush

It’s sucking on what’s left of your brain.

I would not think that it was sweet.

yeah, how thoughtful indeed… if it lays eggs do you want some?

Brutus – men stopped wearing hats when President John Kennedy got elected back in 1960. Switched to baseball caps.

So, Gladys, gently remove the hat and place it on top of a fence post. And, Brutus, rejoice since it go-buy-a-new-hat day.

That’s fowl…

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Birds would only nest there if they felt completely secure which she apparently does. Brutus IS a pretty good guy. Brutus might just be a modern day St Francis…..

Being the Born Loser, next a hawk will come down and attack Brutus’ head.

It is kind of cute!

I hope that bird is not a protected endangered species, or Brutus will never be allowed to remove that hat.

This is literally happening in my workplace today.

I hope Brutus will enjoy 2 months of warm days and chilly, damp, muggy nights.

This strip reminds me of a Peanuts strip from years ago. As we all know, Snoopy sleeps on top of, not in, his dog house. In one strip, he’s sleeping on top of his dog house and some birds come along and build a nest on his stomach. The arc continues for several strips, with the birds laying eggs in the nest on Snoopy’s stomach, the eggs hatching and the adults coming along and feeding the baby birds. Finally, the baby birds make an effort to fly out of the nest, but they are unsteady and want to fly back to the nest. Snoopy’s had enough of them by this point, however, and yanks the nest off his stomach, forcing the baby birds to awkwardly fly away.