Life Insurance

"Life Insurance"

An insurance salesman was trying to persuade
a housewife that she should take out life insurance.

"Suppose your husband were to die," he said, "What
would you get?"

The housewife thought for a while, and then said,
"Oh, a parrot, I think. Then the house wouldn't seem
so quiet."

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"The Parrot"

David received a parrot for his birthday. This parrot was
fully grown with a bad attitude and terrible vocabulary.
Every other word was an expletive. Those that weren't
expletives were, to say the least, rude.

David tried hard to change the bird's attitude. He was
constantly saying polite words and playing soft music,
he did anything he could think of. Nothing worked. When
he yelled at the bird, the bird got worse. If he shook the
bird, the bird got madder and ruder.

Finally in a moment of desperation, David put the parrot in
the freezer. For a few moments he heard the bird squawking,
kicking and screaming and then suddenly, there was quiet.
David was frightened that he might have actually hurt the
bird and quickly opened the freezer door.

The parrot calmly stepped out onto David's extended arm
and said: "I'm sorry that I might have offended you with my
language and actions, so I ask for your forgiveness. I will
endeavor to correct my behavior."

David was astounded at the bird's change in attitude and
was about to ask what had changed him when the parrot
continued: "May I ask what the chicken did?"
Received on Mon Oct 4 14:33:33 2004