I thought it was a very New Yorker kind of line (the winning entry, you know), and it rated the laugh-out-loud in this household that always reads the cartoons first. It’s the very absurdity I liked—actually the layers of absurdity that one must instantly, in reading the caption, take as a given (that a group of corporate business types would reasonably all come to a meeting with parrots on their shoulders, that there’s such a thing as a clip-on parrot, that a clip-on parrot would be seen as a clearly inferior object, which plays on the real snobbery about clip-on ties).I have a box full of saved New Yorker cartoons (from those years before the collection came out), and one of my favorites is a drawing of a chess pawn sitting in the desert with the caption: “Obscure chess moves: Queen’s pawn to Albuquerque, NM.”