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THE PARROT THAT WAS NEARLY A TOASTER
Researcher 147194 Started conversation Aug 28, 2000
This is true. The idea of a customer trying to return an item to an 'electrical appliances' shop and get a refund while the sales assistant claims that there's nothing wrong with it was John Cleese's. Then Graham Chapman gets up from under a pile of gin bottles and says: -
"It should be about a dead parrot!"
So Cleese then thinks to himself *YES, OF COURSE IT SHOULD. WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?* and the rest, as they say, is a big pile of wobbly knockers with hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top.
I don't actually like the dead parrot sketch much, but I like this story, so there.
THE PARROT THAT WAS NEARLY A TOASTER
Yevrah Niai Researcher 148101 Posted Nov 23, 2000
This is a dead conversation. It has shuffled off this mortal coil.
It has joined the choir invisible.
Iain 
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