Look, kid. I’m a 45 year old grey parrot, and I can speak three languages, while you’re 14, and your mommy had to promise you a portrait if you didn’t flunk 7th grade for the third time, so don’t you go getting uppity with me and calling me a birdbrain!
"Category:People with parrots in paintings" site=https://commons.wikimedia.org
(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Grey, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size, circa 1840 painting.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3161 (July 10, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with info about this artist. So far 45 works, with initially or current unknown attribution, have been used here. The April 24, 2023, strip has the prior.
With that smirk on her face, she’s thinking, “We’re having squab for dinner tonight (or the closest thing to it.) That’s the last time it tattles on me.”
BE THIS GUY 12 months ago
The artist ran out of color before he got to the parrot.
Solstice*1947 12 months ago
/// The Johansens don’t know what to do.
In their window this strange parrot flew.
Their child wants it to stay,
“My pet African Grey.”
But it talks, and its language is blue.
rmremail 12 months ago
Polly want a cracker?
And does your bird want one too?
Say What Now‽ Premium Member 12 months ago
It was lost on the painter that his model was flipping him the bird.
rmremail 12 months ago
Look, kid. I’m a 45 year old grey parrot, and I can speak three languages, while you’re 14, and your mommy had to promise you a portrait if you didn’t flunk 7th grade for the third time, so don’t you go getting uppity with me and calling me a birdbrain!
ronaldspence 12 months ago
my eyes are up here Polly!
flashdrive1988 12 months ago
Steve Melcher, that is definitely one of the best of the best of your Priceless captions!
Jayalexander 12 months ago
I came prepared for this little crapper I wore white.
jdculhane46 12 months ago
I’ll pose with this thing, but you’ll be buying if it craps on new dress
[Traveler] Premium Member 12 months ago
Why the long face?
Call me Ishmael 12 months ago
A parrot sought some place to land/
And observed a petite human hand/
On a young human female/
So he shot her an email./
Her response: “Come on down – it sounds grand!”///
Said the bird (in an avian shriek)/
“I can’t stay for more than a week !”/
The maiden replied/
“How long you abide/
Is not my concern, bubble beak !”///
It’s not certain how long he stayed/
( Not for too very long, I’m afraid)
But he met her demand/
That a bird in the hand/
Is a moment that must be portrayed !
MS72 12 months ago
Pull my finger.
aerotica69 12 months ago
Why the long face? Don’t you like birds?
epaphus8 12 months ago
“Parent,” “parrot”—what’s the difference?
MuddyUSA Premium Member 12 months ago
Polly wants a cracker….now!
Call me Ishmael 12 months ago
Some birds like to gather in flocks,
Some birds like to sleep in their socks/
But a bird who unlocks/
The cure for the pox/
Must be known the “parrot-dox”…
The Wolf In Your Midst 12 months ago
“Mommy? What does the strange man mean when he says Polly is ‘an ex-parrot’?”
Call me Ishmael 12 months ago
“You squawkin’ to ME?”
greenlynn Premium Member 12 months ago
Let the Monty Python punchlines begin. (Oh, I see they’ve already started.)
mabrndt Premium Member 12 months ago
Portrait of a Girl with Grey Parrot:
Paste (including the quote marks)
"Category:People with parrots in paintings" site=https://commons.wikimedia.org
(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Grey, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size, circa 1840 painting.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3161 (July 10, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with info about this artist. So far 45 works, with initially or current unknown attribution, have been used here. The April 24, 2023, strip has the prior.
anomaly 12 months ago
African Grey Parrot teaching its human to speak.
Slowly, he turned... 12 months ago
Hey, that’s one homely… uh… bird.
Indianapolis Smith 12 months ago
Sara and Mr. Dawdles planning their wedding…
Ken Holman Premium Member 12 months ago
Mommy, why is Polly repeating “I’m coming” in your voice? Where are you going?
Snoopy_Fan 12 months ago
She misunderstood when the artist said, “Flip me the bird.”
Csaw Backnforth 12 months ago
With that smirk on her face, she’s thinking, “We’re having squab for dinner tonight (or the closest thing to it.) That’s the last time it tattles on me.”
Bilan 12 months ago
The bird was originally on a different finger, but then that would have been two birds.
stamps 12 months ago
That gold necklace looks might enticing.
Thehag 12 months ago
Looks like the painter used one person for the body and another for the head. The perspective is bizarre!
The caption is great!