Delightful, I see a new T-Shirt in there.

This cartoon caused the Pied-billed Grebe of Wry Amusement to visit my window.

not to mention the titwillows of inappropriate giggling.

The woodpecker of one-track-mindedness?

“titwillows” heeheehee

The “cardinal” of pedophilia.

The Platypus of confused gender identity

Oh, I’d love some ‘mockingbird of obscurity’ merchandise. Preferably a t-shirt that I can wear to important meetings.

I’d rather have an Emus of Futility Shirt for those meetings…

Well now, the crane of commercialism has visited us all hasn’t it?

I’ll join in. I think a mockingbird of obscurity shirt with a picture of the bird speaking a black bubble would be perfect. I’d also wear anything with the phrase “emus of futility.” So, both? Cash it in, Dorothy!

I would also like to encourage you to make a mockingbird of obscurity shirt. On gray.

Please believe that the fickle flycatchers of flakiness will not cause me to add it to the shopping cart and just think about buying it for a few days.

What’s hilarious to me is that we have Mockingbirds here in the (semi-) south where I live. Their ‘found/sampled’ song is fantastic, but their ‘actual’ cry — that they use between themselves — is really harsh and guttural… most crows would be proud to use it.

So anyway, your visualization is perfect.

I…er…sixth (?) the request for a Mockingbird of Obscurity shirt!

I want a Emu of Futility shirt or cap!!

That would be the first hat I’d actually wear.

The emu stampede panel inspired a workplace visit from the titwillows of inappropriate giggling. So, yes, I’d love that on a shirt.

(Just wish I could keep up the theme like the more intelligent commentors above. Oh, well.)

In my mind (there are no mockingbirds where I live), if two mockingbirds imitate each other, they take turns to make louder & noisier calls until it’s all white noise at a deafening volume

Next up: The Ostriches of Denial

I’d like to see more suggestions for merchandise that isn’t t-shirt related. Like, I dunno, a brooch in the shape of the Mockingbird of Obscurity. Or broad shoe laces with Death’s head printed on them, to appeal to the teenage goth market. Or personalised sketches of what we would look like as roller derby players.

I just worry about what will happen when everyone in the world has a shirt.

The one I really hate is the Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker of Mockery.

I can’t tell how accurate the other birds are, since none of them are native to where I live, but those really don’t look like emus.

Who can forget the immortal Gary Larson’s Chicken of Despair

k-pax FTW

I’ve a Bluebird of Misery. I found him in a junk store on the $1-anything-on-this-shelf: “OMG, this is so tacky! I must have it!”
The last Passenger Pigeon was named ‘Martha’ . . . now I’m sad.

This comic pretty much sums up grad school.

The partridge of procrastination brought me here.

the giant black crow of the apocalypse!

i hear them outside they’re really giant, everybody get in your earth domes…

Love it. But yeah, I’m from Australia. They don’t look much like emus. Emus are kind of skinny. But I can forgive it anyway.

the giant, shiny, black, gore-slick multi-headed crow monster in the centre of town of government metaphor.

And the moral of the story is… if bird is heavy and fast, don’t stand in its way!

Cormorants of Futility, surely?

I want a t shirt with panel 5 and “the Emus of Futility” written underneath it: my obscurity points would double! And Dorothy, please read this and make the shirt. I would give you money for it!