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Thanks to Fixer Curro Claret for linking more information on this kludge!
It warms my heart to see the indigenous plastic parakeet population being fed. – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer JawnT says, “Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.”
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Copy & paste this:
Metaphor:
- “This bird will not stay and wait for breadcrumbs falling down after bread cut as much as I’ll wait for someone to cure my thirst when there is a bar around the corner.”
I thought it was just a flight of fancy, but apparently budgie bread bongs really do exist!
You know, on a list of things I don’t really want to see in the kitchen, I think birds would rate pretty high. Even this plastic one is sort of marginal.
This is only a clever decoy for training Cat Woman’s kitchen staff. Don’t grouse or snipe until it’s your tern.
That loony Catwoman is not exactly the starling of the bird world. I once knew a bird lover who got locked in an aviary overnight with her, then couldn’t get her to leave him alone afterward. Can you imagine having a crazy chick stork you like that? She has a lot of gull. Auks totally cuckoo, like she’s on heron or something. She thinks it’s a lark, something to crow about. But I did hear that she got a case of thrush, and now she can’t swallow.
(OK, so if you can’t get one crummy bird pun to work, you start to hope that maybe toucan. And so on. I guess it’s not exactly a cardinal sin, not around here, at least. These will just have to work in a finch. Apparrotly, I’ve got nothing better to do than to be mocking birds. I know this has been pretty owlful, but it was all kind of ostrich from the start anyway.)
Ouch.
I forgot to duck.
Hoo boy. These two stories are definitely for the birds.
Time Out. Fowl play
That’s brilliant!
WIN!
Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
It’s not dead, it’s sleeping!
Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn’it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
It’s just pining for the fjords!
Well, of course it was nailed there! If I hadn’t nailed that bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent ‘em apart with its little pecker, and VOOM!
Mr. Praline: ‘E’s not pinin’! ‘E’s passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘im to the perch ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig! ‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
best Python sketch ever!
That’s no feeder, that’s a trap! The bird smells the bread and climbs up the tube conveniently onto the chopping block! I’d have used a turkey-sized tube myself, not much meat on a parakeet.
Plastic birds eating plastic bread.
THE BIRDS…will kindly wait for you to cut the bread. This time.
Hilarious, but not an actual kludge, surely? An art installation, a chindogu, or just an amusing gag, but I can’t imagine anyone setting this up for real. It’s way too slick for a kludge.
It is a perfect chindogu, though, if that’s what it is.
So…you’re saying the picture belongs on thereisortofnotreallymighthavefixedit.com?
I believe he’s saying it belongs on
thereichindoguedit.com
Yes, that’s exactly what I said!
I have a new favorite word: chindogu. Never heard it before
Sorry but that’s Curro Claret ‘art’ piece.
My first thought was, “What will keep the bird from flying up to the table and just eating the bread,” and then I realized that bird was plastic so the problem is solved!
That is hilarious. By the way, do you have any kids?
And if so, do they strongly resemble those mannequins at Old Navy?
I like your PET parakeet. By PET I mean polyethylene terephthalate.
If you play whack-a-mole. PET means: Pile Emission Tester
It’s hard to believe a tiny parakeet like that could have the strength to lift that entire contraption, bread and all, and fly it over to wherever I feel like slicing my bread. Simply amazing.
Well, there’s probably another one holding up the other side.
Perhaps two of them carried it together on a line under the dorsal guiding feathers.
Well, it depends whether they’re African or European.
Don’t you get it! It’s Twitter in a picture.
Wow, you’re right, that’s brilliant! LOL
Yep, that’s definitely chindogu in its purest form.
Brilliant, but WTF? stupid at the same time.
http://artisticthings.com/feed-your-little-bird/
Now, I’ve always considered myself to be a frugal person, maybe even a little anal retentive, but what mind came up with this?
that’s the cutest darned thing I’ve ever seen!
I love all of the snarky comments, but I just can’t believe no one else has commented what a great, original kludge this really is! As anyone who loves real bread will attest, crumbs are a real pain in the kiester. I have dealt with lots of crumbs over lots of years of cutting real bread, and this fix, I can tell you, is absolutely wonderful! Built-in, guilt free, swipe and go efficiency.
thanks!
All those little holes, the funnel, and the tube have been clogged for weeks with moldy old bread crumbs that eventually work their way down to the tray, and innocent little Polly gets deathly ill from eating them. You became frustrated and quit cleaning this contraption after misplacing the bottle brush for the umpteenth time. Polly’s care will be very expensive and painful, and she may not make it even then. I ask you, what’s efficient and guilt-free about any of this?
you’re welcome.
I’m going out on a limb here, and guessing that kc/cc doesn’t bake bread. Or purchase real (artisan) bread. And so it occurs to me that what really surprised me about the lack of positive reaction should not have been surprising at all. Folks in America look at a kitchen scene such as this, with a real bread knife and a real loaf of bread, and literally don’t understand what they are looking at. And I see that the photo was taken in Spain, far from the Wonder Bread factories. So not seeing or understanding the beauty of the solution is not really your fault
Oh, kc/cc does on occasion both bake and enjoy real artisan bread. But kc/cc can’t find that stupid bottle brush, nor does kc/cc like to share with birds. kc/cc swipes real bread crumbs left from cutting with the real bread knife off the real cutting board into the real sink, with real efficiency, and no real guilt to speak of. kc/cc is just a real devil’s advocate sometimes, that’s really all there is to it, and this is a real chindogu.
domo arigato.
realy
Any idea how long before PETA finds something wrong with this?
That’s not a Kludge that needs a patent.
This is so awesome genius, that I want to be a bird in your aerea
You made my day, but also you crashes one of my long wing.
It’s an x-parrot!