Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Bird's the Word

October 29, 1966
Kids can be exorbitantly cruel, Gladys. I am around children all day and they are mean to me, other adults, other kids, their friends, themselves. That's what he's getting away from, the children's nasty barbs. Crippling embarrassment I can handle.

Clearly the insurance companies were able to keep certain people out of this neighborhood. Arnie's not buying a house here.

Brutus could've made another bird friend. Remember when we got a strip of a bird nesting in Brutus' hat? At least here we see the bird land and we're not just thrown into a wacky situation.