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[hiromichi]

I cannot laugh in reading a joke below. Please help me.

".......I'll do my best to improve my language from now on". The man is astounded at the transformation. Then the parrot says "By the way. What did the chicken do?" ... "
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Hiromichi

[Mister Micawber]

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I need more of the joke, Hiro-- I've never heard that one before, to my knowledge. Is there a fried chicken in the story?
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"I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences." � Gertrude Stein
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Canadian-American who teaches English for a living at Mr Micawber's

[hiromichi]

Mister Micawber:
Here it is.
So there's this Pirate with a parrot. And this parrot swears like a sailor, I mean he's a pistol. He can swear for five minutes straight without repeating himself.

Trouble is, the pirate who owns him is a quiet, conservative type, and this bird's foul mouth is driving him crazy. One day, it gets to be too much, so the guy grabs the bird by the throat, shakes him really hard, and yells, "QUIT IT!" But this just makes the bird mad and he swears more than ever.

Then he gets mad and says, "OK for you." and locks the bird in a cabinet. This really aggravates the bird and he claws and scratches, and when the guy finally lets him out, the bird cuts loose with a stream of invective that would make a veteran pirate blush.

At that point, he is so mad that he throws the it into the freezer. For the first few seconds there is a terrible din. The bird kicks and claws and thrashes. Then it suddenly gets very, very quiet. At first the guy just waits, but then he starts to think that the bird may be hurt.

After a couple of minutes of silence, he's so worried that he opens up the freezer door. The bird calmly climbs onto the man's out-stretched arm and says, "Awfully sorry about the trouble I gave you. I'll do my best to improve my vocabulary from now on."

"By the way, what did the chicken do?"
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Hiromichi

[Mister Micawber]

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Haw, haw! I get it now. The pirate put the parrot in the freezer for a while as punishment, or just to shut the bird up. While it's in the freezer, it sees a frozen chicken-- no feathers, no head or feet, of course-- and thinks that the chicken must have done something very bad, to be killed and put in there.

So when the pirate opens the freezer door, the frightened parrot promises to be good, and asks what the chicken did.

Get it?
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"I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences." � Gertrude Stein
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Canadian-American who teaches English for a living at Mr Micawber's

[hiromichi]

Mister Micawber, Now I can laugh! Thank you very much.
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Hiromichi