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	Dead Parrot - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Dead Parrots are often caught by poachers and hunters on unsuccessful journeys to capture living parrots.
		Beware, as the Dead Parrot is armed and dangerous and suspected in at least 34 armed robberies in 11 states.
		Dead parrots in general and the Norwegian blue in particular have an unusual charchteristic in that when they have 10,000 volts run through them, something startling happens: nothing at first but then they smoke and burn.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Dead_Parrot (777 words)

	Parrots - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Parrots require allot of space, generally ranging from an entire room for the smaller species to large mansions for larger species.
		It is not uncommon for parrots to outlive their owners and their owner's children, so don't be surprised if your parrot attends your funeral.
		A male parrot can be taught to mimick phrases such as "I like other male parrots" but will never have any hope of understanding what it is saying.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Parrot (853 words)

	This Dead Parrot is Difunto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A question left hanging by John Cleese, "What is the value of a dead parrot?" has finally been resolved by a Barcelona judge.
		He was awarding damages to Maria del Carmen Dotras, whose parrot (male, green) died, passed away, turned moribund, ceased to exist, and, in short, became defunct two years ago in the city's Vall d'Hebron hospital.
		Her family doctor suspected the parrot might be the cause of an allergy her mother had developed.
	www.tealdragon.net /humor/articles/parrot.htm (317 words)

	Dead Parrot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dead Parrot sketch, alternatively and originally known as Pet Shop sketch or Parrot Sketch, is a popular sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, one of the most famous in the history of television comedy.
		The name "Dead Parrot" is also sometimes used, and specifically applies to a controversial joint policy document which the Liberal Party and Social Democrats issued in 1988 in the process of their merger into the Social and Liberal Democratic Party.
		Cartman tries to explain to Kyle, the shopkeeper, that Kenny is dead, borrowing nearly all of the dialogue from the Parrot sketch.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dead_Parrot (1429 words)

	Monty Python's dead parrot did exist - Telegraph
		It is the first time that it has been established that parrots lived so far north, although at 55 million years old the bird is very much an 'ex-parrot’, having lived 10 million years after the dinosaurs died out.
		The fossil is also much older than the remains of the next-oldest parrot found in the southern hemisphere, which are believed to date back 15 million years.
		Dr Waterhouse, who was studying for a PhD in parrot evolution, was able to establish that the fossilised 6cm long humerus, or upper wing, had all the hallmarks of the parrot family.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/1958285/Monty-Python's-dead-parrot-did-exist.html (618 words)

	Dead Parrot (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The "Dead Parrot" sketch is one of the masterpieces of the Monty Python canon.
		Shopkeeper remains unconvinced, claiming that it is stunned, and that it is pining for the fjords.
		Some have interpreted the parrot debate as a sixth level theological argument concerning the existence (or otherwise) of God.
	www.explainthat.info /de/dead-parrot.html (652 words)

	The Dead Parrot Skit \| AssignBlame (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Late last week UK officials reported that a parrot imported from Suriname had died in quarantine of suspected bird flu, which was later confirmed to be a case of the potent H5N1 strain of bird flu.
		After the Surinamese parrot case was revealed, the Council of Agriculture made a comprehensive inspection of the breeder's facilities and found absolutely no evidence of a bird flu outbreak.
		They further report that the dead parrot which started the scare may not have been infected after all, but that the samples from that bird may have been mixed up.
	www.assignblame.com /stories/20051029/the_dead_parrot_skit (980 words)

	Dead parrot did have killer strain of bird flu - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The Independent
		The parrot, which died on 16 October, was part of a consignment of 148 birds imported from Surinam that had been housed in a quarantine unit along with 216 exotic birds from Taiwan, where the virus has been found.
		Defra said the parrot's death did not affect Britain's status as being free of avian flu, because it occurred in quarantine.
		The Surinam consignment a mixture of parrots and "soft bills" arrived in Britain on 16 September and the diagnosis of avian flu was made a month later on 16 October just before it was due to leave the month-long quarantine, Dr Reynolds added.
	www.independent.co.uk /life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/dead-parrot-did-have-killer-strain-of-bird-flu-512276.html (1518 words)

	About Dead Parrot
		Dead Parrot is a digest of political news and opinion with a progressive bent.
		The name Dead Parrot comes from a Monty Python skit in which a pet store customer returns to complain that the parrot he bought a few minutes earlier is dead.
		Dead Parrot is now being published on an occasional basis as Dead Parrot Bulletin.
	www.dead-parrot.com (755 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Avian flu found in parrot in UK
		A parrot that died in quarantine in the UK has tested positive for avian flu, the government has said.
		The parrot - which was being held in a bio-secure unit at an undisclosed location - is the first confirmed case of avian flu in Britain since 1992.
		The bird was part of a mixed consignment of 148 parrots and "soft bills" that arrived on 16 September.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4365956.stm (811 words)

	"Dead Parrot" from Monty Python from Greatest Comedy Sketches
		The premise: a man (John Cleese) attempts to return his brand-new parrot to the pet shop, having realized that the bird is quite obviously dead.
		The pet-shop owner (Michael Palin) refuses to believe that the parrot is dead, and therefore refuses to let him return it.
		Cleese would later recite the synonyms for “dead” from this sketch at Graham Chapman’s funeral (Members of MPFC refer to Chapman as “the dead one”).
	www.funnyordie.com /videos/53df40b3a6 (252 words)

	Dead Parrots Society: About the Troupe (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If you are interested in becomind a Dead Parrot, DPS holds open rehearsals on the WWU Campus, every Tuesday at 8 pm in Humanities 103.
		Dead Parrots also performs often in the Seattle Cage Match held at the Historic Univeristy Theatre.
		Although the Parrots are world-famous, they do dorm shows too.
	www.deadparrotssociety.com /getinvolved.htm (203 words)

	TheSpoof.com : Dead Flu-Stricken Parrot Comedically Returned To Pet Shop funny satire story (Site not responding. Last check: )
		LONDON -- A parrot that died in quarantine in Britain, most likely of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, was returned to the local pet shop, where hilarious obfuscation and repartée ensued, the agricultural minister of silly walks said on Sunday.
		The dead parrot, recently imported from Norway, was part of mixed consignment of birds which arrived in September, and was held with various other flying creatures, including kiwis, mad rabbits and half-a-bees.
		As Reynolds was beginning to explain the precuations and preventative measures that UK and other governments were taking in anticipation of an inevitable pandemic, she was pulled away by aides, and returned to the press conference a few minutes later.
	www.thespoof.com /news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i9577 (413 words)

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		The parrot used to live in the pub's bar and was much admired by all the regulars.
		Unfortunately, one day the parrot was chased out of the pub by a cat and was killed as it flew into the traffic on the busy road outside.
		She looked at the dogs and the cats but finally settled on a parrot that was perched in the back of the store for $50.00.
	www.parrotsocietyoflosangeles.org /parrot_jokes.htm (3093 words)

	Dead Parrot Sketch
		I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
		Praline: Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
		That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~ebarnes/python/dead-parrot.htm (408 words)

	Narcissistic Personality Disorder - The Dead Parrot - narcissism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
		That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.
		Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
	www.operationdoubles.com /narc/deadparrot.htm (450 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The State Department’s Dead Parrot by Kenneth R. Timmerman
		In the Monty Python skit, a man brings a parrot back to the store where he purchased him half an hour earlier, complaining that the parrot is dead.
		Sazegara himself told me last year that the reform movement was “dead.” And yet, the State Department, through lack of imagination or its atavistic tendency toward blind man’s bluff, refuses to recognize it.
		Like Monty Python’s dead parrot, the State Department Iran “experts” have nailed the reform movement to the perch, and keep selling it again and again, pretending that it’s alive.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22127 (1319 words)

	Charlie Brooker: The Dead Parrot Defence used to be just farcical. Now that killers are using it things are getting ...
		The Dead Parrot Defender is hoping that if they lie long and hard enough, reality itself will bend to accommodate them.
		A classic Dead Parrot Defence consists of an overtly preposterous central premise cooked up in the heat of the moment (bonus points if it ignores a few well-known laws of nature), coupled with an obstinate, huffy denial of the facts.
		He only realised she was dead, he said, when she failed to react to him biting her repeatedly on the face and neck.
	www.guardian.co.uk /commentisfree/2008/mar/10/charliebrooker (1270 words)

	Medical News: Dead Parrot at Center of British Avian Flu Mystery - in Infectious Disease, Flu & URI from MedPage Today
		The ministry's "working hypothesis" is that the parrot became infected while it was in a quarantine facility in Chelmsford, northeast of London, the ministry's chief veterinarian, Debby Reynolds, Ph.D., said earlier in a statement.
		Inevitably the dead parrot in London dredged up memories of the extinct Norwegian Blue famously purchased by actor John Cleese in a classic Monty Python television skit a generation ago.
		In the television sketch, actor Cleese, having found that his newly purchased parrot is dead, tries to return it to the shifty pet shop owner, who insists the bird is simply "pinin' for the fjords."
	www.medpagetoday.com /InfectiousDisease/URItheFlu/tb/1985 (850 words)

	There’s A Dead Parrot In The Refrigerator
		The bird had parented the two other parrots that lived in aviaries in the garden.
		So we’ve wrapped the parrot in a smart plastic shopping bag and it’s marking time next to the eggs until we can bury it in the morning.
		After a lifetime of living in pragmatic cities, it’s rather refreshing to live in a country town where you can’t bury your dead parrot until tomorrow.
	www.baliadvertiser.biz /articles/greenspeak/2004/dead_parrot.html (1185 words)

	Monty Python!!!! - The Dead Parrot Sketch - Miscellaneous (Site not responding. Last check: )
		- The Dead Parrot Sketch - Miscellaneous - !http://maxpages.com/ashesplace/Dead_Parrot
		That parrot is definately deceased, & when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolongued sqwuack.
		C: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered that the only reason it had been sitting on its perch was that it had been NAILED there.
	maxpages.com /ashesplace/Dead_Parrot - !http://maxpages.com/ashesplace/Dead_Parrot (600 words)

	Ken Timmerman's Thursday column from FrontPagemag.com
		In the Monty Python skit, a man brings a parrot back to the store where he purchased him half an hour earlier, complaining that the parrot is dead.
		Sazegara himself told me last year that the reform movement was "dead." And yet, the State Department, through lack of imagination or its atavistic tendency toward blind man's bluff, refuses to recognize it.
		Like Monty Python's dead parrot, the State Department Iran "experts" have nailed the reform movement to the perch, and keep selling it again and again, pretending that it's alive.
	www.kentimmerman.com /news/2006_04_20fp-deadparrot.htm (1272 words)

	The tale of the dead parrot
		Tissue material from both dead birds was pooled together and tested for the avian flu virus using a highly sensitive method, PCR, which is capable of detecting just one molecule of the virus.
		The initial results, released on Friday was that one or both of the dead birds were infected with the H5 strain of avian flu.
		This possibly suggests that the parrot from Surinam was free of the virus when it arrived at Heathrow and became infected while it was in quarantine with the birds from Taiwan, which has reported avian flu in domestic poultry.
	www.news-medical.net /?id=14028 (609 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Dead parrot bird flu is H5N1 strain (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The parrot which died in quarantine in the UK has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has said.
		The parrot, imported from South America, which arrived in the country last month and died last week, was being held in a quarantine facility in Essex.
		The type of H5N1 found in the parrot is "not so similar" to the strains isolated from Romania and Turkey.
	news.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=2134402005 (451 words)

	Gifted research parrot Alex found dead - Science- msnbc.com
		Alex, an African Grey parrot, was taught advanced language and recognition skills and revolutionized the understanding of the avian brain.
		He also occasionally instructed two other parrots at the lab to "talk better" if they mumbled, though it wasn't clear if he was simply mimicking researchers.
		She said Alex was discovered dead in his cage Friday morning.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/20723212 (392 words)

	Boing Boing: Dead Parrot sketch turns real, ends up in court
		Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch has come to life and moved to Israel, wehre it is the subject of intense litigation:
		An indignant Israeli is suing a pet shop that he says sold him a dying parrot, reports the Ma'ariv newspaper.
		Simowitz adds that the shop owner assured him the parrot was not ill but merely needed time to adjust to its new environment.
	www.boingboing.net /2005/02/18/dead_parrot_sketch_t.html (202 words)

	Parrot (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parrots (psittacines), any of about 353 species of bird belonging to the biological order Psittaciformes, which includes
		Psittacosis (parrot disease or parrot fever), an infectious disease of parrots
		Parrot Crossbill, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parrot_(disambiguation) (178 words)

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		C: Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
		Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.) C: Now that's what I call a dead parrot.
		C: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
	bau2.uibk.ac.at /sg/python/Scripts/TheDeadParrotSketch (759 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Monty Python's 'Dead Parrot Sketch'
		The 'Dead Parrot Sketch' is probably the most well-known, and well-quoted, of any Monty Python sketch.
		The 'Dead Parrot sketch' cropped up in several places after its original performance, firstly on the BBC Monty Python's Flying Circus album, and then in the film And Now For Something Completely Different, in which the ending was changed to have the pet-shop owner reveal that what he really wanted to be was a lumberjack...
		Of course, you could argue that the 'Dead Parrot sketch' is successful simply because it was written by two of the finest comedy writers and performed by two of the finest comedy actors ever to grace a television screen.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A692660 (991 words)

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