ARRANGING FOR THE CONTROL TACTICS INSTRUCTOR COURSE. The basic entry level instructors course is ten (10) days in length, usually from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., but times can be modified if necessary. Classes are conducted on Monday through Friday for two weeks with the weekend off.
Etymologists believe that quippy derived from the Latin quippe, a word meaning indeed or to be sure that was often used ironically. The earliest sense of quip, referring to a cutting or sarcastic remark, was common for approximately a century after it first appeared in print in 1532.
And it's s canary. I quote wikipedia, and wonder why you didn't go there first. Tweety (Tweety Bird) is an Animated fictional yellow canary in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons. The name Tweety is a play on words, as it originally meant sweetie, along with tweet being a typical English onomatopoeia for the sounds of birds.