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Foul-mouth parrot mimics Churchill's wartime thoughts
AFP – Monday January 19, 20004
LONDON (AFP) - The inner thoughts of Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill live on, thanks to the foul mouth of his 104-year-old parrot who lives at a garden centre in southeast England.
"F*** Hitler! F*** the Nazis!" says Charlie, a female blue and gold macaw which Churchill bought in 1937, two years before the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
"Parrots are remarkably adept at mimicking sounds and voices," says an article about Charlie in the February issue of Jack, a British men's magazine, which hits the newsstands on Thursday.
"So when Charlie gives her opinion of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, it is rendered with a Churchillian inflection," it said.
Following Churchill's death in 1965, Charlie was sold to pet shop owner Peter Oram, who keeps her at the garden centre in Reigate, Surrey, where she wanders around the grounds in summer but stays indoors in the winter.
"She is a very old parrot," Sylvia Martin, who works with Oram, told Jack. "She has become increasingly quarrelsome -- and, if the truth be told, is now looking a little scruffy."
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1442
Do not confide your private sexual secrets to parrots!
20:24 2002-05-20
Talking birds, that are better known as parrots to everyone, are famous not only for their mind and quick wits, but for bad temper as well. They are always happy to make secrets of the owners public, even details of their sexual life.
Employee of a bird preserve Wendy Abel had to take a parrot named Oliver to her home for one night. And the parrot became an eye-witness of night love games between Wendy and her husband. Next day the woman, who suspected nothing bad at that time, brought the parrot back to the preserve. And suddenly the parrot started talking in a human voice. Oliver told Wendy-s colleagues about her sexual life in detail, the bird even artfully mimicked manners and phrases used by the pair. The colleagues, who listened to the bird, were extremely surprised. Wendy-s boss, Rob Smith even thought a taped porno film was on at that moment, as sounds and phrases used by the pair during their sexual games were mimicked by the bird wonderfully. Wendy herself was confused and tried to hush the parrot up, but in vain.
The colleagues treated the incident as a funny joke. Wendy-s husband, who also works at the preserve, enjoyed the situation. As of now, Oliver is isolated until it completely forgets events of that night.
english.pravda.ru/fun/2002/05/20/29002.html
AFP – Monday January 19, 20004
LONDON (AFP) - The inner thoughts of Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill live on, thanks to the foul mouth of his 104-year-old parrot who lives at a garden centre in southeast England.
"F*** Hitler! F*** the Nazis!" says Charlie, a female blue and gold macaw which Churchill bought in 1937, two years before the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
"Parrots are remarkably adept at mimicking sounds and voices," says an article about Charlie in the February issue of Jack, a British men's magazine, which hits the newsstands on Thursday.
"So when Charlie gives her opinion of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, it is rendered with a Churchillian inflection," it said.
Following Churchill's death in 1965, Charlie was sold to pet shop owner Peter Oram, who keeps her at the garden centre in Reigate, Surrey, where she wanders around the grounds in summer but stays indoors in the winter.
"She is a very old parrot," Sylvia Martin, who works with Oram, told Jack. "She has become increasingly quarrelsome -- and, if the truth be told, is now looking a little scruffy."
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1442
Do not confide your private sexual secrets to parrots!
20:24 2002-05-20
Talking birds, that are better known as parrots to everyone, are famous not only for their mind and quick wits, but for bad temper as well. They are always happy to make secrets of the owners public, even details of their sexual life.
Employee of a bird preserve Wendy Abel had to take a parrot named Oliver to her home for one night. And the parrot became an eye-witness of night love games between Wendy and her husband. Next day the woman, who suspected nothing bad at that time, brought the parrot back to the preserve. And suddenly the parrot started talking in a human voice. Oliver told Wendy-s colleagues about her sexual life in detail, the bird even artfully mimicked manners and phrases used by the pair. The colleagues, who listened to the bird, were extremely surprised. Wendy-s boss, Rob Smith even thought a taped porno film was on at that moment, as sounds and phrases used by the pair during their sexual games were mimicked by the bird wonderfully. Wendy herself was confused and tried to hush the parrot up, but in vain.
The colleagues treated the incident as a funny joke. Wendy-s husband, who also works at the preserve, enjoyed the situation. As of now, Oliver is isolated until it completely forgets events of that night.
english.pravda.ru/fun/2002/05/20/29002.html