Actually, Joe, you have your birds confused. This is a dookey bird. The apteryx (a wingless bird with hairy feathers) looks different and can’t fly. This bird CAN fly and has done so on numerous occasions (he even dropped a grape from altitude into John’s mouth once).
So why does he migrate south on the back of a tortoise? I assume it’s because he can’t fly very FAR…
sjoujke about 15 years ago
That’s a long time when you’re on the road and you’re a tortoise.
yyyguy about 15 years ago
and they’ve almost reached the end of the panel.
Rakkav about 15 years ago
Then…what were they before?
JP Steve Premium Member about 15 years ago
Could be a measure of how long John’s been smiling..
GROG Premium Member about 15 years ago
That’s turtle seconds. It probably works out to close to 50 human years.
ferndip about 15 years ago
Compliments have a way of doing that.
wicky about 15 years ago
Is that in grebe years?
Rakkav about 15 years ago
Actually, Joe, you have your birds confused. This is a dookey bird. The apteryx (a wingless bird with hairy feathers) looks different and can’t fly. This bird CAN fly and has done so on numerous occasions (he even dropped a grape from altitude into John’s mouth once).
So why does he migrate south on the back of a tortoise? I assume it’s because he can’t fly very FAR…
GROG Premium Member about 15 years ago
Johanan Rakkav I have read this strip almost since inception. Why would this bird introduce himself as an apteryx (numerous times) if he wasn’t one?
As for the bird’s ability to fly, he CAN because this is a comic strip.
gobblingup Premium Member about 15 years ago
LOL – I’ve had “friendships” like this…