...just opened an e-mail from my buddy Oscar and it's too good to not share.
A few days before Christmas, the FedEx truck dropped Grandpa a big box from his grandson who worked for a big oil company in South America. Gramps opened the box and found that he had received a big beautiful green bird with a red topknot on its head. The bird was huge and it didn't take Grandpa long to de-feather the creature and put him in the oven with sweet taters and stuffin'.
About the middle of January, Sonny called and asked if his grandparents had gotten the box on Christmas, and Grandpa said, "Yes we did son, and it was really delicious."
"You don't mean to tell me you ate that bird!?"
Gramps assured him that they did.
The young man nearly screamed into the phone, "Why, that was one of the smartest birds in the whole world! It was worth a fortune! He could speak three languages!"
Then Grandpa said...
"Well, he should have said something."
Was that really necessary?
Posted by: Janis Gore at January 25, 2007 09:26 AMNow, now--I'm sure it wasn't an eclectus.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 25, 2007 09:41 AMhe-he)))) your grandpa is a big humourist!
Posted by: Eva at January 26, 2007 09:58 AM