Which brings us to perhaps my favorite genre of jokes...the Parrot Joke

Two old ladies lived at the top of a twenty story building. They lived all alone except for a parrot that they kept in the corner. Despite years of training, this parrot had only mastered one phrase....Who is it?. One day the old ladies discovered a leak under the kitchen sink. They called the plumber, who said he would be by the next afternoon. Now these ladies were both over 90, and it's understandable that by the next day they had forgotten all about both the leak and the fact that they had called a plumber at all, and they went shopping.

It was an extremely hot August afternoon when the plumber pulled up in his truck and unloaded two haevy bags of tools. He let out a tremendous sigh as he checked the building directory to find that the ladies lived at the top of twenty flights of stairs, in an un-airconditioned building. It took him nearly 20 minutes to struggle up the stairs with his 75 pounds of tools. I might add that this plumber was grossly overweight, and suffered from high blood pressure. By the time he reached the old ladies' door, he was in a state of near-exhaustion. He set his tools down and knocked on the door, and the parrot said who is it?

"It's the plumber, ma'am."

Some few seconds passed, and the bird repeated who is it?

The plumber cleared his throat and said "It's the PLUMBER."

Some more time went by before the bird said who is it?

"IT'S THE PLUMBER!"

There was a pause, and then the bird said who is it?

The man roared "IT'S THE PLUMBER!!!" then gasped, gripped his chest, and fell over dead with a heart attack.

Some hour later the two old ladies returned to their apartment, and were shocked to find a man's body at their door.

"Who is it?" exclaimed one old lady.

"IT'S THE PLUMBER!" said the parrot.