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Caption This for 3/30/2018

Posted March 30, 2018 4:45 PM by MaggieMc

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03/30/2018 5:12 PM

Polly want a keyboard?

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03/30/2018 5:38 PM

Searching for birdseed has become a fruitless endeavor for Sparky, who failed speech class....

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03/30/2018 5:40 PM

This is how the "Hunt and Peck" style of typing got started.

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04/02/2018 9:59 AM

.....I'm looking for the key to learn polynomials by parrot fashion....

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03/30/2018 7:28 PM

....Someone said they could get to the Amazon through this thing.

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03/30/2018 7:34 PM

Stundent: I couldn't complete my assignment..

My bird ate my apple.

Teacher: That's ok I'm failing you preemptively for not making sense.

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03/30/2018 8:26 PM

I wonder what bird brain been messing around with this machine?
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03/30/2018 10:44 PM

I said I needed a new keyboard, not a key bird.

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03/30/2018 10:50 PM

They can blend recycled plastic and hemp you say ?
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03/30/2018 10:59 PM

Homework and chicks don't mix.

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03/30/2018 11:28 PM

Chickens really do scratch.
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03/30/2018 11:29 PM

Sorry! I got a little upset when I couldn't find the avian porn website!
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03/30/2018 11:46 PM

Just keep pecking away at it.

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03/30/2018 11:49 PM

No caption here, but I did indeed replace many keycaps that had been removed by a much larger parrot from a friend's Apple Powerbook 15 or 20 years ago.

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03/31/2018 5:09 AM

And... then to find he’s getting "Off Topic" votes on CR4.

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03/31/2018 10:08 AM

Where the hell is that mouse? it's gotta be around here somewhere!

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03/31/2018 12:22 PM

Serves you right for buying a keyboard going 'cheep' on eBay.

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03/31/2018 1:55 PM

Uh oh. Why'd the screen go blank?

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04/02/2018 5:03 AM

Bird invents new 15 character language. Converts owners keyboard and now communicates with amazed owner.

Owner is planning another steam powered rocket to prove that gravity only exists when air is present.

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04/02/2018 7:39 AM

Yes,... ah,... Milton,... I like you to train our,... ahhhh... new employee everything your know,...

That would be greaaat!

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04/02/2018 10:23 AM

They call it a Chick-lette keyboard, but I have yet to find any chicks,

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04/02/2018 11:56 AM

One o' them cheep keyboards.
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04/04/2018 10:38 PM

Aaand... we've found the true identity of Anonymous Poster #1!!!
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04/04/2018 10:48 PM

Always thought by his name he was a chicken!

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04/05/2018 7:26 AM

. **** WARNING ****

Parental Mature Adult Guidance Required...

This video contains Extreme Violence It is recommended that this video is not to be viewed by Children, Liberal Adults or Millennial's or current or past students enrolled at Berkeley with out any type of mature guidance and safe spaces, coloring books, stuffed animals, puppies and kittens ,.... after further review,... no puppies they get too rambunctious,... just kittens... after even further review,... Scratch that also, kittens can scratch and bite,... only pictures of puppies and kittens.

This is done for the safety of others,... we don't need a crisis that creates mass protests, vandalism and people blocking the streets with a melt down.

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04/07/2018 4:58 PM

I wonder how many GA’s I’ll get in my (anonymous) next post. Lol...

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04/07/2018 12:58 AM

" I've got your number, Alphabet Man!!! "
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04/09/2018 3:37 PM

You thought I called him a peckerhead only because he had a beak!

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04/09/2018 3:40 PM

If this doesn't stop him from ordering that cheap online birdseed ... I'll have to get the flock outta' here!

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04/10/2018 12:42 PM

Extreme Tweets

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