"Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Remember when Robin Williams was fired from his job by a special
parrot in _Survivors_ (1983)?

The greatest parrot scene in cinema history.

JL

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Isn't a challenge bringing a parrot to the library?
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> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> At 10/11/2011 11:15 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>>> > Pirate scholars maintain that there is no evidence that "walking the
>>> > plank" was a popular diversion . . .
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>>>"Pirate scholars" -- this brings to mind the image of a peg-legged,
>>>eye-patched, parrot-bearing researcher walking to reference desk asking
>>>"Arrh, where be the special collections, matey??"
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>> I see a peg-legged, eye-patched parrot, parrots being especially
>> intelligent and talking birds.
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>> Joel
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