Fwd: Quaker hating parrots

[Joel S. Berson]

(Not to be confused with Quaker parrots hating -- just Google those
three words!)

A little bit of cross-pollynation:

 From another list:
>Dunno, but you're not the first to note the phrase:
>
>Notes and queries, March 12, 1864
>_http://books.google.com/books?id=629zXVqXp_8C&pg=PA220&dq=Quaker+hate+a+par
>rot&hl=en&ei=twy1TLmVIZHCsAObq6GUCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&v
>ed=0CFQQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Quaker%20hate%20a%20parrot&f=false_
>(http://books.google.com/books?id=629zXVqXp_8C&pg=PA220&dq=Quaker+hate+a+parrot&hl=en&ei=
>twy1TLmVIZHCsAObq6GUCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFQQ6AEwC
>A#v=onepage&q=Quaker%20hate%20a%20parrot&f=false)
>
>At least one person also thought it was because of the parrot's talkative
>nature:
>Representative English dramas from Dryden to Sheridan
>By Frederick  Tupper 1914
>_http://books.google.com/books?id=wRZLLuIoUtgC&pg=PA440&dq=Quaker+parrot&hl=
>en&ei=1w61TOq_LoPUtQOwi-mLBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE4
>Q6AEwBzgo#v=onepage&q=Quaker%20parrot&f=false_
>(http://books.google.com/books?id=wRZLLuIoUtgC&pg=PA440&dq=Quaker+parrot&hl=en&ei=1w61TOq_LoPUtQOwi-mLBA&
>sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBzgo#v=onepage&q=Quaker%
>20parrot&f=false)

Joel

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