Parrothead/Parrot Head (correction)

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:35 AM -0500 2/5/01, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>Come Monday, it'll be all right.
>--Jimmy Buffett
>
>    A fan got thrown out of the NY Knicks game at Madison Square
>Garden on Sunday.

The game was actually in Miami, so Jimmy Buffett (who was thrown out
of the game before the overtime period began) and other assorted
parrotheads should have had home court advantage.  The American
Airlines Arena in Miami is part of Greater Margaritaville, after all.

larry

>It was Jimmy Buffett, the guy who sang the national anthem and was
>rooting for the visiting Miami Heat.
>    Heat coach Pat Riley asked the official if he was a "parrothead."
>The official thought it was an an insult and almost threw Riley out
>of the game.
>    A parrothead is a Jimmy Buffett fan, just as a deadhead follows
>the Grateful Dead.  Both are either one word or two words.
>    "Deadhead" made the RHHDAS; I don't know the fate of "parrothead."
>
>I know it's my own damn fault.
>--Jimmy Buffett