Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for February 04, 2024

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

I don’t see any marble cake.

That was a great game in its day, right there with Knock Your Block Off.

Plus, first come, first serve.

They have lost their marbles

Celebrities always get preferential treatment.

AHEMS! And me is hungry hungry hungry bear. Breengs the foods to me.

They have a full sized version of Hungry Hungry Hippos at Dave and Busters. It’s fun!

uh—-is this a video game?…or a tv series?—I’ve heard of Angry Birds, but……

And you don’t want to mess with hungry hungry hippos.

I think they’ve lost their marbles.

Are they hungry hippos from Hungry? Or Czechoslovakia?

If you wanna win the game you got to stick your fame, and get the most marbles with your hippos…

They may be doubly hungry, but we’re belligerent psychotic hungry hippos. Bring the food back over this way.

So they get fed first!

Is that game still around?

Let em eat MARBLES!

They never forget to eat thanks to their hippocampus.

Who will eat? No one knows.

And as a collector of hybrid daylilies, we grow the actual plant, HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPO.

Find. No tip tip.

You know it’s time when they get out the forks…..

Ha! I remember that game! They even got the colors right. Although, as I recall the hippos in that game ate only marbles! :-D

And I’ve got a snake who was so hungry that she wrapped her coils around a mouse before I could put the mouse down.

You need a fork for marbles?

Don’t whiz on the electric fence!