This morning, while building my animatronic choir that’ll sit in the backseat of the Dodge, I had an epic epiphany (not a hissy fit, as they say down here).

By combining the Dragon NaturallySpeaking software with a link to Google Translate, I have created a group of mimicking monsters.

Thus, when I sit down with my parroting cabal, they speak back to me in their own language.

For instance, I sit down in the car seat, start the engine and say, “Hello.”

The fuzzy creatures in the back respond with “hello” but each in a language chosen for their characters.

Franz the Bavarian says, “Guten tag.”

The Finnish supermodel, modeled on Miss Piggie, says, “hyvää päivää.”

And on and on, over to Lou the Lao who says, “sabai di.”

It’s even funnier to hear them try to interpret themselves in the second round of parroting.

That’s why Polly the Parrot is programmed to whistle loudly every once in a while to signal the choir to pipe down and listen to my voice only.

I’ve got to figure out how to get each doll to respond to its name only and not have the whole crew responding to me when I say something like, “Franz, h0w is the bratwurst today?” [to which he is supposed to respond comically, “I am no worse than yesterday.  How are you?” Artificial intelligence?  You decide.]