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2013-10-18 -Lurid Crime Tales-
A Bird in the Hand
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Posted by Deacon Blues 2013-10-18 08:08|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 Anyone else think Monty Python when they read this?
Posted by Warthog 2013-10-18 10:11||   2013-10-18 10:11|| Front Page Top

#2 A friend of mine used to have a large parrot that would sit on his shoulder. Occasionally the parrot would bend down and remove the buttons on my friend's shirt with surgical precision. I suppose a large parrot could do the same with a nose, fingers, or ear lobes.
Posted by JohnQC 2013-10-18 16:35||   2013-10-18 16:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Anyone else think Monty Python when they read this?

First thing. And if I were Luis, that would be my defense: I thought it was dead!
Posted by SteveS 2013-10-18 16:39||   2013-10-18 16:39|| Front Page Top

#4 The Orange-Wing Amazon we inherited could crack open and clean out a Brazil Nut in about 6 seconds.

Takes me twice that long just to try to get the nut situated correctly in the nutcracker.

Parrots beaks are designed to crush things, which they can do pretty well.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2013-10-18 17:25||   2013-10-18 17:25|| Front Page Top

#5 I've heard of flipping the bird at the cops but...
Posted by Pappy 2013-10-18 22:56||   2013-10-18 22:56|| Front Page Top

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