Churchill's parrot still hates Hitler
Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:32 pm
this is the funnies thing ever:
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/World/story_54504.asp
"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."
apparantly, some types of parrots can live well over 100 years, so I believe this story.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/World/story_54504.asp
"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."
apparantly, some types of parrots can live well over 100 years, so I believe this story.
Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:50 pm
Thats awesome
Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:52 pm
wow
Wed Jan 21, 2004 1:40 am
Coolest pet ever.
Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:35 pm
my cat pees in the bathroom sink! isn't that cool!:(
Wed Jan 21, 2004 4:17 pm
My cat shits in the bathroom and then my dog eats it.
Top that!
Top that!
Wed Jan 21, 2004 4:21 pm
My girlfriend's cat brings home wounded mice, birds and moles, and puts them in people's shoes!
Wed Jan 21, 2004 4:23 pm
ROFL 
Wed Jan 21, 2004 7:11 pm
I got some root beer up my nose one time...
Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:02 pm
My dogs will eat my cat's puke. My cat is officially an Ace (three or more arial kills). My cat fought a raccoon and didn't die. My cat instills fear in all chilren and adults. Seriously. Ask Ryan. People come over and are like "Where's Louie?"
Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:18 pm
My cat's breath smells like catfood.
Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:40 pm
Originally posted by Ralph Wiggum
My cat's breath smells like catfood.
But do your tears smell like dogfood?