Glad you mentioned Charlie whose most insightful phrase was spoken in Churchill’s voice: F**K HITLER!
Posted on 01/16/2018 10:19:16 PM PST by oxcart
Andrew Jackson isn’t the only US President to keep a pet bird in the White House. Teddy Roosevelt had a one-legged rooster and James Buchanan supposedly owned two bald eagles (because America). But to our knowledge, Jackson was the only one to have a swearing parrot.
The bird’s name was Poll and was originally meant for Jackson’s wife, Rachel. But after she passed away, Jackson became the African Grey’s caretaker. So how did the parrot get a foul mouth? We can’t say for sure. But with what we know about Jackson—a man so tough and temperamental his nickname was “Old Hickory”—it’s safe to assume the bird picked up the habit straight from his owner.
On June 8, 1845, the country’s seventh Commander in Chief passed away from unknown complications. Thousands gathered to pay their respects, including Poll, who squawked, squeaked and swore like a sailor.
Volume 3 of “Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History” cites Reverend William Menefee Norment, who presided at Jackson’s funeral:
“Before the sermon and while the crowd was gathering, a wicked parrot that was a household pet got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house.”
Rev. Norment goes on to say the presidential parrot was “excited by the multitude and … let loose perfect gusts of ‘cuss words.’” People were “horrified and awed at the bird’s lack of reverence.”
We don’t know what happened to Poll after his indecent outbursts, but we do know that Jackson and his dirty bird mouth will forever live in infamy.
African Grey Parrots can be remarkable mimics. They will imitate whatever gets the most reaction. Some know just the right inflection and emphasis to put on certain vowels. You would ‘swear’ that the bird knows exactly what he’s saying.
Too expensive and too loud for me to own one, though.
MSM in 5...4..3..2..1... WHY DOESN’T TRUMP HAVE A SWEARING DOG?!?!
Winston Churchill also had a foul-mouthed Macaw known as Charlie the Curser. It’s still alive (119 years old) and lives in a zoo in Surrey.
Back in the day, before I became allergic I kept a throng of parrots.
My late brother took great pleasure in addressing the cages while yelling “gay sex” and handing them treats.
His fun was only matched by my consternation.
Miss him greatly.
According to Churchill’s daughter, the parrot was never his. But, it is still one old bird.
Trump has Turban DeDurbin, which suffices as a lying dog. No swearing dog needed.
Whe I was very young there was a large grey parrot that lived at a small taxi stand office which had a small waiting room and a radio dispatcher behind a kiosk.
while you waited for a cab, the parrot would regale patrons with varied foul language sounding exactly like they were coming from a two way mobile radio speaker.
They do far more than mimick. They speak in context, knowing the meaning of the words. Even my Blue and Gold Macaw speaks in context, but Greys can have vocabularies over 2,000 words.
To say they merely mimick is quite laughable.
The WH “correspondents” in the Press gaggle should be replaced by a fowl mouthed parrot.
Some youtube performances sound in order.
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Thanks for posting, o.
So sweet! Enjoy her.
He does. It's a chihuahua named Jim Acosta.
Wow. What a great face. Looks like a little teddy bear.
Years ago we had a neighbor who had built her house around a huge, glass enclosure designed for their mynah bird. My kids were charged with caring for that bird when the owners were out of town. Among his many talents, the mynah bird spoke in a Scottish brogue (owner was a Scot) and did a great imitation of the garbage disposal. After the first baby arrived, he did a perfect imitation of the newborn’s cries which caused a problem for the parents.
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