Half Full by Maria Scrivan for June 17, 2022

THE WIZARD OF OZ: “Now that you’ve got a functioning brain, what are you going to do first?”

THE SCARECROW: “I’m going to strangle 10,000 pigeons!”

Well, “crow” is a four-letter word…

Drop an ear of corn in the swear jar, and you’re covered (for the morning, at least)!!

The hazy lazy days of summer….

Aha! And I “swear” he must be wearing these weird “cranky pants” from “Break of Day”…

https://www.gocomics.com/break-of-day/2022/06/17?ct=v&cti=2547506

I swear at crows multiple times in a day. During the time of year that the crows are feeding their hatchlings, they carry pieces of hamburger buns, pet kibble, deli meat – anything they can scrounge from the dumpsters in the local shopping centers. AND they put it all in my BIRD BATH. I assume they want it softened up to feed the chicks but it turns my birdbath into a sewer in no time at all!!! I have to clean it out as many as 5 times a day so my bees, wasps, birds, squirrels and visiting cat can drink! I can’t see any reason for crows to exist. What do they contribute? They regularly attack the pair of Cooper’s Hawks that have come here every single year to mate. If I had Aladdin’s lamp my first wish would be that all crows disappear from the planet.

I’ve noticed that English has very few compound nouns consisting of a verb and object, and they tend to be derogatory and/or archaic: scarecrow, pickpocket, cutthroat, cutpurse, scofflaw, quakebuttock…

Is he named Mr. Grawlix by any chance?

remember it’s @ before # except after $