Bad Tempered Parrot!

Have you heard about the man who owns a parrot that swears like a sailor? This parrot was so terrible, it could swear for five minutes straight without repeating itself. One day the man finally gets tired of this parrot's horrible speech, and decides to do something about it.

He grabs the parrot by the throat, shakes it really hard, and yells, "QUIT IT!" every time the parrot says something ungodly. But this just makes the parrot mad, and it swears more than ever.

Next the man tried locking the bird in a kitchen cabinet. This really aggravated the parrot, and it clawed and scratched furiously until the man finally let him out (upon which the bird released it's fury in a torrent of language so horrible it could never be repeated).

At that point, the man was so frustrated that he threw the parrot into the freezer. For the first few seconds the parrot made a terrible amount of noise in protest to this treatment, kicking, clawing, and thrashing about. But after a few moments it suddenly went very quiet.

As the silence grew longer the man started to think that the parrot may be hurt. After a couple of minutes of silence, he became so worried that he opened up the freezer door. The parrot calmly climbed onto the man's outstretched arm and said, "Awfully sorry about the trouble I gave you. I'll do my best to improve my vocabulary from now on."

Of course, the man is astounded. He can't understand the transformation that has come over his unruly parrot. Then the parrot asks, "By the way, what did the chicken do?"