Herman by Jim Unger for February 10, 2024

What happens when the pirate is old and weak and the parrot is heavier than it used to be?

Well, shiver my timbers! Can I say that here?

The comic is cute, but where’s the hook?…cough

It becomes a new item on the menu.

Insult parrot Polly feels emboldened and will soon abandon Morose Roger to find an up-and-coming Video Pirate’s shoulder … to poop on.

Parrots would definitely do this, if they could converse like that. LOL

That d@mn bird is always sticking his drinks on my tab!

Rosie is a good barkeep. She even gave the pirate a napkin as a coaster, although he isn’t using it.

White or red? LOL

A feathered intellectual.

Trivia fact of the day: an aircraft transponder is also known as a “parrot” because it “parrots back” a signal to the radar that interrogates it. This term is particularly used in naval aviation.

The Navy also has other odd terms such as an optical landing system called “the meatball.”

In pilot training, I had the opportunity to practice some approaches at a Naval Air Base. I might be one of the few Air Force Pilots who know how to use a meatball.

However, I was confused when I was first told to “strangle my parrot” which meant, turn my transponder off.

Reminds me of the parrot in Aladdin.

I guess the guy in the hospital consumed all the raspberry.

Visiting Montreal years ago where they have strip clubs that go from wonderful couples retreats to ghastly dumps and a friend and I went to the ghastly. A guy passed out on bar with a pile of money under his forehead and a 50-year-old dumpy dancer on the stage. The bartendress comes over, grabs the guy’s hair, pulls his head up and says, “Another one?” then looks at the two of us and asks “For them too”? then shakes his head yes, grabs the right amount of money and drops his head to the bar.

It’s how I learned that they don’t like big tippers in Montreal.

I’m sure his phone has pirated software.

He has to stay with the grape juice, he’s the designated driver.

And a cracker.

If R2D2 were a pirate droid, his name would be ARRRGH-2-D-2. (Saw this one on fb)

Glad you came in, Jack. We’re gearing up for the Super Bowl and are almost out of wings and strips. Can your parrot assist us in the kitchen?

Aaack!

A pirate has to be good for something and I believe this parrots found it.