Manly Men

Every night we let the birds out of their cages and watch TV while we’re holding them. We don’t watch live TV – everything is recorded to the DVR so we can fast forward thru the commercials. We have never watched sitcoms; always hour long shows – usually murder mysteries and the like.

Recently my sister convinced me to watch Two and a Half Men. I caught a couple shows on the internet but when I saw the show about Charlie Sheen’s girlfriend getting a breast reduction I knew that Mark had to watch it too. We began recording it on the DVR – both the new episodes and the re-runs on another channel.

The other day I heard Emelio saying something over and over. I finally realized he was singing part of the theme song from the show! The words weren’t very clear, but the cadence was unmistakable. It’s actually a catchy little tune. I recorded it in case you haven’t heard it.



We watched the new episode on Tuesday night this week. Afterwards Emelio was on the counter as usual and he began to sing. His words were loud and very clear. I couldn’t help myself and laughed out loud. He took that as high praise, laughed at himself and promptly sang it again. It has become his new favorite song.

This morning Emelio and Alex had a little duet going. I recorded it on the video camera, but since I couldn’t go upstairs without interrupting them, there isn’t any video other than the side of the fridge.



It starts out with Emelio singing Men men men men, and then Alex sings his favorite song. I don’t know exactly what it is, but I think it may be God Bless America. Whatever, he’s quite passionate about it. Classy throws in a little of what I call his fan belt noise, Mister goes into a do-do- doo routine, throws in the word “ticklehead” and goes right back into the theme song.

Aaaahhh – I love it. Every time I hear Emelio sing I can’t help but remember the first time I told his breeder about it. She laughed and said “Oh Cathy – don’t you know that grays don’t sing?” I guess nobody ever told the bird!


Cathy