Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for November 29, 2024

Quiets now or else ninja sloth will comes and shuts your beak.

Do you know the way to Vegas?

No, hum a few bars.

I’ve never seen, or heard, a hummingbird sing. I thought the only sound they make is with their wings.

LL Blue Jay

He’s practicing, later to meet up with his bee buddies.

“You can’t play a kazoo if you don’t have lips, Larry.”

Why do hummingbirds hum? … … because they don’t know the words.

Why do some birds beatbox? … … because, not only don’t they know the words, they can’t even hum a tune on tune.

All humming is better than ©RAP.

Beatbox is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

All that he’s missing is the pants that hang around his butt

I don’t know how to respond when a bird beat boxes in front of me (apologies to Keeley Jones)

Pentatonix has a guy who beatboxes and plays the cello at the same time. Why shouldn’t Larry learn a new skill?

Oh, leave him bed and move to another branch.

Larry the hummingbird is a…Rap-tor.

Youth… no matter what species…..

“I love to sing-a about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a . . .”

People in their 40s now wear their hat backwards. And that bird needs wing tattoos.

… and they can’t even tweet on twitter anymore. (posts on X are just called posts now).

The hatless bird should perch on cars when he sings, so that he can use auto tune.