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[IP] Churchill's parrot still swearing.




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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 02:09:21 -0700
From: janziff <janziff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Churchill's parrot still swearing.
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>, "dave@xxxxxxxxxx" <ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Well fact may indeed be stranger than urban legend.
It just might be true.

Listen to the interview on BBC Radio 4 with the parrot?s current owner, who says his father in law owned a pet shop before the war from where Churchill bought several parrots. He says that when Churchill died they went down to the estate and bought all the remaining parrots ? including this one.

Go to: <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/monday.shtml>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/monday.shtml

And scroll down the page to 0843


Jan Ziff


From: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:28:00 -0500
To: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [IP] Churchill's parrot still swearing.


From: Gordon Jacobson <gaj@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Absolute Hogwash.  Churchill never had a parrot and there is no way that
the war rooms would have tolerated a foul mouthed one at that.  Remember -
most of the employees were women during WWII.

Someone should have checked with Urban Legends.

GAJ

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