“People who are coming from parts unknown, countries that you’ve never heard of. Languages that nobody in this country speaks. We don’t even have teachers of some of these languages. Who would think that we have languages that are like from the planet Mars? Nobody, nobody, knows how to, you know, speak it.”
(Trump on undocumented immigrants crossing our border)
Some cartoon premises are so good they hold up even without the drawing. Gary Larson’s “Professor Schwartzman” walks the suburban neighborhood in his antenna-festooned helmet. The device enables him to be the first human to understand “what barking dogs are actually saying.” As it happens, every dog in the frame, and there are several, is saying the same thing, which is, Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
It transports me, laughing, to a piercing birdcall heard in a former springtime. A lone bird close to my window uttered two syllables relentlessly with rising intonation — something like too-WEE! too-WEE! too-WEE! Instinct told me it was a young male angling for a first mating. I knew in my heart that his call was bird language for I’m HERE! I’m HERE! I’m HERE! It’s meant to bring the love candidates flocking. Every guy has tried it in his own time.
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The post definitely made me smile 🙂
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