Hanging on my fridge...

...is this joke I cut out of a Reader's Digest a few years ago. I enjoyed it so much that I even 'laminated' it with packaging tape. I tried to scan it, but it's too small and hard to read. My lack of techno skills betrays me again.

"I promise. That bird is so well behaved, you can

take it anywhere," the pet-store owner assured

the woman. Delighted, she took her

parrot to church. Things were great until, halfway

through the sermon, the bird blurted, "It's damn

cold in here!" Embarrassed, the woman ran out

and went to the pet store. "This 'good bird'

swore in church today," she told the shop owner.

"I'm sorry. It sometimes does that in new

environments," he explained. "Next time,

grab its feet and swing it over your head a few times.

That should stop it." The next week the

woman and her parrot were in church when the

bird yelled, "It's damn cold in here!"

Quickly, the woman grabbed the bird and

swung it above her head six times. Then she put

the bird back on her shoulder and sat down.

"Damn," the bird said. "It's windy too."