The parrot

[Hans Deventer]

A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a
bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's
mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to
change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing
soft music and anything else he could think of to "clean up" the bird's
vocabulary.

Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot. The parrot
yelled back. John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even
ruder. John, in desperation, threw up his hand, grabbed the bird and put him
in the freezer. For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and
screamed. Then suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a minute.
Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the door to the freezer.

The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's outstretched arms and said
"I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I'm
sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend
to do everything I can to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior."

John was stunned at the change in the bird's attitude. As he was about
to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the
bird continued, "May I ask what the turkey did?"

[Marg Webb]

Hans. Now that is funny.
Marg.

[Cecil Wallace]

LOL.
I'm going to use that in my SS class lesson to make a point about "Actions speak louder than words."

Thanks

[BobHunt]

about 2 people who each owned a parrot.
One was trained in the good ol Christian ways and would often say "Lets pray."
The other parrot was on the wold side, and so often would say "lets neck, lets neck".
The owners thought if they put them together, maybe the good influences would rub off on the one parrot. So they put them together, Then the conversation went like this:

One parrot said "lets pray, lets pray."

The other parrot said, "lets neck, lets neck."

Then the first parrot turned around and said "ahhhh at last my prayers have been answered."

[Ed Sherman]

Thanks for the great dinner table joke Hans - can't wait til supper to use it!