Today’s Bizarro, which is, well, bizarre:
Not only do we have a thieving bird that carries off letters of the alphabet, we have one that takes them from the cartoon itself. Bizarre indeed.
Perhaps a distant allusion to The Thieving Magpie. From Wikipedia:
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is a melodramma or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on La pie voleuse by Jean-Marie-Theodor Badouin d’Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez.
… The Thieving Magpie is best known for the overture, which is musically notable for its use of snare drums.
(The overture can be heard, and seen, here, in a performance by the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado. An extract from it has become famous as the music accompanying the gang fight in A Clockwork Orange.)
The plot turns on the theft of family silver, falsely laid to a servant, but actually the work of a magpie, magpies being famously attracted to shiny things, the way red-breasted sap suckers are attracted to letters of the alphabet.
February 26, 2015 at 1:19 pm |
No, no, it’s a red-breasted sap *spitter*, which explains why the woman is rubbing her eye.
February 28, 2015 at 12:47 am |
Yes, that too.