Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for June 13, 2024

He rocks in the tree top all day long

Hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and a-singing his song

the catbird seat is conveniently located

A little bird told me who was.

Do the “crazy eyes” help?

“Oh, Father…”, “Oh, the shame of it”, or “How can I ever face the fellows in Troop 12?”

Sylvester J. Pussycat Jr.,

Nobody knows what be Ninja Sloth’s language.

a furry cuckoo

Haha good one

The noise my cat makes when he’s bird watching sounds more like: cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck

Bilingual cat.

I haven’t seen that on Duolingo yet…

does kitty also have a Twitter account?

They really need to pick a different font on their laptop.

He’s in the catbird seat.

might help to open the window a bit…just sayin’…

I’ve had a few cats that made chirping sounds at birds outside the window.

Unfortunately, it comes out as “meh-eh-eh-eh”. If you have a cat, you know what I mean.

The ads say “In a few weeks you’ll be speaking another language!” What they DON’T say is “In a few weeks you’ll understand another language when you hear SOMEONE ELSE speak it.” That takes years of study, not weeks. And if you’re going abroad to an area frequented by tourists, it’s very likely that the tour guides, bus drivers, waiters, concierges and other service personnel speak English. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have been hired for those jobs in the first place.

My childhood dog meowed once.

My cat makes a sound that actually sounds like a bird chirp!