[backhoe]

I think it's a scream that you have a bird named "Yomama". If she's singing her head off, it must mean the storm is going away . . . because it IS going away, apparently. (unless she changes her mind again . . . the original Ophelia was kind of a ditz, that's what they get for naming the storm after her . . . she fell in a stream and got drowned, too.)

For better or worse, my taste in women has always been, shall we say, "eclectic." My first wife named the first cockatiel "Flea," after a character in some forgotten book. Flea not only outlived wife #1, my Dad, and a few others, but lived to see wife #2 and a mate- Yomama, who wife #2 purchased & named.

Mrs. B is a former symphony musician ( Jax Symphony, First Flute, Principal Chair, and Service Keyboards )-- and besides being well-educated & intelligent, is possessed by a slightly weird ( non-linear? ) sense of humor.

The name is a play on fiddler YoYoMa's name...

...and yes, most people mis-hear the name, and think it's "YoMaMa!" With all the rude implications.

Birds have a weird, dim, and alien intelligence-- she calls me, my wife and dog by name, but having a syrynx instead of vocal cords, most syllables are slurred with an "R" prefix...

"Ron" ( John )
"Rem-ri-ry" ( Emily )
"Raff" ( Taffy )-- sometimes interchanged with "Roof" ( wolf? Ruff? )

And every time the phone rings, she says "Arr- Roe!" ( hello! )

[AnAmericanMother]

A friend of ours has a number of birds . . . all with medieval names (early music lutenist and her husband is a church music director/organist). Maybe it's something about bird, or something about musicians . . .

There's a local sushi place here named Mo-Mo-Ya.

Of course it would be easier to tell which joke you were telling if it weren't just on paper . . . saying it out loud would probably clear this one up . . . < g >