BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!

Subject: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 May 10 - 05:39 PM

Every year I harken back to this hilarious video of Ruby, the talking parrot. Her English owner is attempting to teach her some common French words and expressions in this video, and Ruby appears to take offence...she rebukes him in no uncertain terms:

Ruby objects to French lessons

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 May 10 - 09:10 PM

Couldn't hear the parrot over the laughing.

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: LadyJean
Date: 18 May 10 - 12:12 AM

My friend Diana has a parrot named Peter, whose last owner must have been a sailor. He has a very large, and obscene vocabulary. One happy day two Mormon missionaries appeared on her doorstep. They were greeted by Diana, all six foot five of her, with Peter on her shoulder. Diana said, "This is my parrot Peter. Peter would you like to say hello today?"
Peter said, "No."
Diana said, "What would you like to say?"
Peter said, "Bull sh*t." (One of his favorite expressions.)
The Mormons left.

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 May 10 - 11:29 AM

You need to turn the sound up a little, Rapaire. The owner is closer to the video machine, so his voice is a bit louder than the parrot's, but with the sound up a tad you can hear the parrot just fine.

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: Bill D
Date: 18 May 10 - 12:53 PM

A friend of mine had a parakeet...he taught it to say "stupid bird".

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 May 10 - 03:58 PM

It's more fun if you have a bird and a dog...and you train the bird to say "Stupid dog!" when the dog walks by. ;-) I have seen such a pair in one household. The bird would yell "Stupid dog!" and the dog would respond as if stung, barking back angrily at the bird, and they would both rave on at one another for some time. The bird clearly thought it was damn funny, and so did its owners.

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: gnu
Date: 18 May 10 - 05:55 PM

About 60 years ago, my old man's cousin Thomas found a baby raven fallen from it's nest (back woods New Brunswick, Canada). He brought it home and nursed it to health. His aunt split it's tongue. Now, how THAT was ever discovered, I have no idea as it seems rather odd to me but that is what my old man told me. Apparently, it could talk a streak and it learned some blue streaks.

One day, when the priest walked in the yard (the raven was not kept in the house) Blackie said, "Not the fucking collar again!" And, better in my books, when the game warden stopped by, "It's not moose, it's beef." The kids had been warned every visit.

I never knew if my old man was just yarnin me... but it made me laugh.

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: Micca
Date: 18 May 10 - 06:12 PM

Many years ago at the "Cornish Arms" pub in Par Cornwall UK they had an African Grey parrot in the bar that spoke very well and would do his Party piece every now and then, i dont remember what the owners trigger phrase was but the Parrot would say
in a very childlike little voice
" Pussycat,pussycat where have you been?"
Then follow in a strong masculine tone
" You Bastard"

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: Joe_F
Date: 18 May 10 - 06:29 PM

There is a joke, not worth repeating in its entirety, at the end of which a parrot screeches "How's your asshole?" and a lady says "Oh, shut up!" to which the parrot replies "Mine too; must be the salt water".

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 19 May 10 - 06:44 PM

I laughed my head off when I first saw this story..
There used to be some potty mouthed parrots at Whale Island Gunnery School in the 1970's, taught no doubt by the matelots.


Foul-mouthed parrot is ordered ashore by Navy

By Stewart Payne
Published: 12:01AM GMT 25 Nov 2005

A Royal Navy parrot with a reputation for embarrassing top brass with her salty language has been ordered ashore.

But it was not Sunny's swearing that led to her being taken off the frigate Lancaster. She has been given extended shore leave on medical advice after plucking out her feathers and looking withdrawn.

Sunny, a six-year-old African grey with the official service number of RN Parrot No 1, has a habit of squawking "arse" and "bollocks" at inappropriate moments.

During a visit in 2001 by the First Sea Lord, Sunny was banished to a wardroom broom cupboard but could still be heard uttering expletives. Besides a comprehensive list of oaths, her favourite phrases are "Zulus, thousands of 'em" and "You ain't seen nothing, right?"

Shore leave was ordered when Lancaster returned to its home port, Portsmouth, after tours of duty to the Falklands, Middle East and Africa.

Sunny is now recuperating with the family of Lt Mari Duffy, one of the ship's officers, and her feathers are growing again.

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: gnu
Date: 19 May 10 - 06:53 PM

LOL Frank. Imagine a parrot "embarrassing" a First Sea Lord. PRICELESS!

TARred and feathered?

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 May 10 - 10:10 PM

Gentlemen, you MUST view the video that is linked to in the first post of this thread. It is the last word on foul-mouthed parrotry.

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 19 May 10 - 10:21 PM

That video is great, she is almost up to par on Jade my wife who has a fantastic level of Anglo-Saxon, which she did not learn at English classes in China...

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 20 May 10 - 02:24 AM

Mrs Brown had a wayward parrot,
A pretty young thing called Flo.
Who was always swearing and talking,
In sexual innuendo.

Mrs Brown went for tea at the vicars,
One Sunday evening last year.
Where she saw his old parrot praying
And it gave her a clever idea.

She asked the vicar at tea time,
"Can I borrow your old parrot "Rex",
To try to influence my parrot Flo,
Who talks of nothing but sex.

She took Rex home the same evening,
He prayed all the way in the car.
She was really impressed by the old bird,
Whose manners outshone Flos by far.

But when she put him in Flos cage,
She realized her greatest fears.
Flo said "Do you want a bit Rex"? and Rex said
"I've been praying for this for years"!!!

Mike Hill 1978c

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: Neighmond
Date: 21 May 10 - 02:28 AM

Our Mina Bird used to say "Here, kitty, kitty!"

Subject: RE: BS: Return of the Foul-Mouthed Parrot!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 May 10 - 12:12 PM

I wonder what he'd have said if he'd met Ruby?