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| Karma’s Revenge |
| 2004-01-20 |
| 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." Give the parrot a scotch on my tab. |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #8 That Parrot is going to live longer than most of the people on this planet? I didn't know seeing a naked, fat man could prolong your life... |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-1-20 10:00:42 PM |
| #7 Damn SH that's a toughie. It would depend on how much Winston conversed in French in front of the parrot. I understand that Mr. Churchhill spoke the language well... but I don't know... nasty visions of a nude winnie with a Cuban blunt babbling to his secretary with an elderly parrot listening. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-20 5:39:45 PM |
| #6 Shipman, do you think the parrot or the reanimated corpse would do the best job of leading France? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-1-20 5:08:35 PM |
| #5 We need to unbox Winston... the undertakers didn't need to use any extra uhhhh preservatives so he's good to go less a new liver & small motor funtions. Or perhaps we could clone the gentleman and implant same in Chelsea's womb. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-20 3:51:48 PM |
| #4 There's nothing finer than a 104-year-old anti-idiotarian parrot. |
| Posted by: Unmutual 2004-1-20 3:46:52 PM |
| #3 I agree with Shipman. |
| Posted by: B 2004-1-20 1:55:35 PM |
| #2 If it were April.... |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-20 11:47:35 AM |
| #1 Wow, I first heard this story on Howard Stern show this morning. Since when does that windbag "scoop" the Rantburg News Network? |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2004-1-20 11:37:27 AM |