The Sunday Funnies word of the week is bird:
bird |bərd|noun1 a warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate distinguished by the possession of feathers,wings, and a beak and (typically) by being able to fly. • Class Aves; birds probably evolved in the Jurassic period from small dinosaurs that may already have been warm-blooded.• an animal of this type that is hunted for sport or used for food : carve the bird at the dinner table.• a clay pigeon.• informal an aircraft, spacecraft, satellite, or guided missile : the crews worked frantically to ready their birds for flight.2 [usu. with adj. ] informal a person of a specified kind or character : I'm a pretty tough old bird.• Brit., informal a young woman; a girlfriend.
1. Who's the pigeon?
2. A Sitting Duck
3. Birds of Different Feathers
4. He's Toast!
There is no avian connection here. This comic is a fugitive from last week's Food For Thought edition. Of course I could justify it's inclusion here by calling it a flight of fancy.
5. A Bird-Brained Enterprise - It will never fly.
6. Watch The Birdie...Tweet!
7. For anyone about to board a big bird...
8. Partisans will undoubtedly flip the bird at this observation.
9. Patriotic Paunch Line
10. A Religious Dinosaur Attempts to Evolve
11. Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an anachronism!
12. Yellow Bird (with apologies to Harry Belafonte)
Yellow bird,
Up high in Washington D.C.
Yellow bird
You sing for the Tea Party
Sing their ugly song
Act like you belong
They are mean and cruel
You are such a tool
You should fly away
In the sky away
And be happy like me
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