Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for June 23, 2023

I like it, carrier geese can honk to let you know that you have mail.

Goose me?

Hey, Wiz, check with Andy. He’ll sell you some!!!

How appropriate, the message arrives complete with a warning sound from the messenger goose.

Dastardly and Muttley finally succeeded?

Courtesy of Canada Post

By the time it dries out it will be out of date.

If you have something urgent to say to your magician friend who you can only communicate with via mail…

You better use a Penn & Teller

I got an e-mail saying, “At Google Earth we can read maps backwards!” and I thought to myself…

“That’s just spam.”

How does a skeleton receive mail?

Posthumously!

Knights like Rodney should always answer their chain-mail. They don’t want to break a link do they?

So was the stork delivering a baby announcement? Wiz and his misses have too much white hair to be expecting a new arrival don’t you think?

At least it’s faster than the postal service…

The thing about geese, particularly Canada Geese is that they provide their own security. They’re like Bruce Banner in that way – they are always angry.

Definitely have not run out of Canada geese around here (they are everywhere and have been having families)

The only thing a goose has ever given me is a bruise in the groin.

Must have ate squab……

The Wiz just got goosed.

Half a century ago I was looking through the list of “AN” designations for communications equipment in the US armed forces standards. There was a designation for carrier pigeons, but it was obsolete: they stopped using carrier pigeons altogether around the time I was born. I guess the pace of modern warfare makes them irrelevant even as backup… no more day-long standoffs.

Some day’s you just can’t write good humor.

Well, I suppose that’s what happens when your tweeter becomes a honker. Crummy message delivery over the air in the most annoying way possible.

It’s ok, Wiz! Once in a while you can hire honkers to fill in!

Our mail service is cleaner.

How does one “run out”? Are they all dead? On strike? Hibernating?

“We ran out of carrier pigeons”

So now they have to use battleship pigeons.

He should probably take a gander at that message.

When we are at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, the local favorite restaurant is “Canadian Honkers”. Their specialty is Bunny Cake, which is delicious!

I wonder what they will use if they run out of toilet paper.

Special delivery mail.

And the best part is these don’t even have to ring the doorbell.

How did the message go out ahead of the geese? It would need its own power source separate from the goose who had been carrying it…

Should have gone with ravenmail, Wiz.

Take a gander at that.

spitwad geese