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January 18, 2026

Menacing birds/food/social relations

Mary Worth, 1/18/26

Good news, everyone! Ian didn't become some soft-hearted sap just because a parrot saved his life or whatever. No, he recognized that this destructive bird was also intelligent, which meant that his behavior could be molded and guided by someone clever and patient enough. That's why Ian is showing Sunny Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds: he's planting the "seeds" (get it?) so Sunny will eventually unleash his violent impulses on an outside world that never fully appreciated Ian's genius, and hopefully recruit his bird friends along the way.

Dennis the Menace, 1/18/26

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