ya'11 may not know it, but no round of joke-telling among my hispanic family is complete without at least one joke in Spanish about a foul- mouthed parrot.
Say, could you tell a few--in English, of course?
This man had a parrot, and all it would say is, "I'm a whore from Chicago!"
That's all it would say.
He was very embarrassed; so he asked the preacher what he could do to make the bird stop saying such a rude thing.
The preacher said the his parrot was very pious. All it did was pray, day and night, night and day. He suggested that they put the two parrots together and that perhaps the piety of the devout fowel would rub off on the foul-mouthed fowel.
The man thought this was a good idea; so he brought his parrot to the preacher's house, and they put it in the cage with the preacher's bird.
The first thing the man's parrot said was, "I'm a whore from Chicago!"
The preacher's parrot shouted, "Thank God! My prayers have been answered!"