# Mockingbird, you must stop. NOW!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 16, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289 "2003-06-16T20:14:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/1 "2003-06-16T20:14:12Z")
The incessant _chip! chip! chip!_ is bad enough, and dive-bombing the window to “warn” my cats makes you look really dumb, but now you’ve started doing this on both sides of the house. Or maybe there are more of you; I don’t know (I won’t use the s-word). And you made my cat hit her head on the window. She’s dumb; you really don’t need to help her look dumber.
I’ll leave your nest alone. I promise. I don’t even know where it is. Would you please go away? You’re making me absolutely insane.
[sub]Last year, when the birds started this during their nesting season then, I asked here what they were and someone said mockingbirds, so don’t laugh at me if they really aren’t.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/2 "2003-06-16T20:20:22Z")
are you aware that there’s a poster here w/the name “mockingbird”??? I assume this isn’t about him, right?
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/3 "2003-06-16T20:20:56Z")
I was confused for a minute there/ I thought you mean the SDMB member **Mockingbird** was divebombing your window. How rude of him!
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### Author:  [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/4 "2003-06-16T20:21:57Z")
It took me past the first couple of sentences to realize this wasn’t about the poster **Mockingbird**. My brain is working even more slowly than normal today.
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### Author:  [@FairyDust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyDust)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/5 "2003-06-16T20:23:24Z")
I was wondering about that, too. I have no problem with **Mockingbird** the poster, so I was wondering what he might have done to get pitted.
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### Author:  [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/6 "2003-06-16T20:23:38Z")
neener neener, I beat all of you.
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### Author:  [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/7 "2003-06-16T20:40:09Z")
Well, as long as he comes in here and apologizes for making my cat hit her head on the window, all will be forgiven.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/8 "2003-06-16T20:47:01Z")
You are aware that there’s…
aww fuck it.
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/9 "2003-06-16T20:49:29Z")
Aw shucks! So close! **wring** and I even have the same time-stamp!
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/10 "2003-06-16T20:53:13Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by lieu \*
> \*\*You are aware that there’s…
>
> aww fuck it. \*\*
No, no: **Mockingbird** just needs to _apologize_ to the putty-tat. What else he does with **DeadlyAccurate** ’s cat is a private matter, best kept between he and fe----line.
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### Author:  [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/11 "2003-06-16T21:03:41Z")
I have a similar problem. Every other day it seems like **Manhatten** is lurking in my bushes and trying to ban my cat. I’ve looked for some moderator repellant granules at Home Depot but can’t seem to find any.
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/12 "2003-06-16T21:41:14Z")
I have a mockingbird in my garden now for the first time in three years. It’s amazing the huge array of sounds they can make! I never knew…
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/13 "2003-06-16T22:16:41Z")
Hey, **DeadlyAccurate** , you might not know this, but there’s a poster here named **Mockingbird**. Took me a bit to realize you weren’t talking about him:)
[sub]What? Hey! It’s better than me running through this thread naked![/sub]
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/14 "2003-06-17T01:37:30Z")
You think that’s bad, **Cecil Adams** keeps shitting in my lawn.
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### Author:  [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/15 "2003-06-17T02:13:23Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Anthracite \*
> \*\*I have a mockingbird in my garden now for the first time in three years. It’s amazing the huge array of sounds they can make! I never knew… \*\*
But **Anthracite** they’re called mockingbirds for a reason. Dammit! What _is_ that whooshing sound? Damned **mockingbird** swooping down at me! Pit 'm, pit 'm hard!
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/16 "2003-06-17T02:43:18Z")
It could have been worse – before the Mods. changed his name for him, he was **Hastur**.
Now imagine having **Hastur** hitting himself against your window… :eek:
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### Author:  [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/17 "2003-06-17T05:02:31Z")
Y’wanna be the fourth little pig, with the asbestos house, at times like that.
As fer the OP:
Yeah, persistance without thought is big with mockingbirds. We had a family nested in the scrub next to our driveway last year, and one of the birds assaulted our car fairly regularly, presumably in defense of the nest, or hatchlings.
All we could figure was the Tigger sunshade in the back window offended her.
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### Author:  [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/18 "2003-06-17T05:07:28Z")
I just realized, that I oughtta make this disclaimer, after re-reading that post:
I am in no way aiming those statements, in any sort of comedic or ironic way, towards **Mockingbird** _nee_ **Hastur**.
[sub]Not that I’m above that kinda bustin’ chops, y’unnerstand, but I’ve got no beef against our boy **Mockingbird**.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/19 "2003-06-17T05:12:32Z")
Did you know there’s a poster here named…oh, nevermind. 😉
We have a cardinal who feels the same way about our laundry room door. Thwack. Thwack. Thwack. All day long. Every day. If he had a brain, it would be mush by now.
The good news is that at least the cat knows better than to go after him. And the dogs just want to play with him.
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mockingbird-you-must-stop-now/182289/20 "2003-06-17T05:58:51Z")
Look, all I know is that SOMEONE keeps throwing shoes at me, and I wish it would stop!
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