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- Subject: Norwegian blue
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.004530.8843@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:45:30 -0600
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- The "Pet Shop" sketch.
- -- John Cleese and Michael Palin
-
- <Ring-a-ling> [Door chime]
-
- [Customer] "Hello, I wish to register a complaint! [Long Pause] ...
- Hello, Miss? "
-
- [Store Owner] "What d'ye mean, 'Miss'? "
-
- "I'm sorry, I have a cold. <sniffs> ... I wish to make a complaint! -- "
-
- "--Sorry, we're closed for lunch! --"
-
- "--Never mind that, my lad, I wish to complain about this parrot what
- I purchased not 'alf-an-hour ago -- from this very boutique! "
-
- "Oh yes, the uh, the Norwegian Blue, what's, uh... what's wrong with
- 'im? "
-
- "I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad -- he's dead, that's
- what's wrong with him! "
-
- "No no, he's, uh, he's restin'! "
-
- "Look matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at
- one right now! "
-
- "No no, he's not dead, he's, he's resting! -- remarkable bird, the
- Norwegian Blue, isn't it, ay -- beautiful plumage! "
-
- "The plumage don't enter into it! It's stone dead! "
-
- "No no, no no, no -- he's restin'. "
-
- "Alright then -- if he's resting, I'll wake him up -- 'Hello, Mister
- Polly Parrot! I've got a lovely fresh kettlefish for you if you--'"
- [Store Owner bangs the cage]
-
- "--There! he moved! --"
-
- "--No he didn't, that was you hitting the cage--"
-
- "--No I never--!! --"
-
- "--Yes it was -- 'HELLO, POLLY!!! Testing... testing... testing... '
- [Bangs parrot on countertop] 'Testing... <Bang! Bang! Bang! > This is
- your nine-o-clock alarm call!! ' ... [Bangs parrot around for a while]
- ... Now that's what I call a dead parrot! "
-
- "No, no... no, he's stunned! "
-
- "STUNNED !?!?! "
-
- "Yeah! You stunned 'im just as he was waking up! Norwegian Blues stun
- easily, you know--"
-
- "--Now look -- now look, mate! I've definitely had enough of this!
- That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf-
- an-hour ago you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to
- it being tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk! "
-
- "Well, he's, uh... he's probably pining for the fjords. "
-
- "Pining for the FJORDS?!? What kind of talk is that -- look, why did
- 'e fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home? "
-
- "The Norwegian Blue prefers keeping on his back! Remarkable bird,
- i'n't it, squire -- lovely plumage! "
-
- "Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home,
- and I discovered that the only reason it had been sitting on its perch
- in the first place -- was that it'd been NAILED there!! "
-
- "... Well, of course it was nailed there! If I 'adn't nailed that bird
- down, it would 'ave muscled open those bars -- bent them apart with 'is
- beak, and --- VOOOOMMM! " [Owner makes flying away motions with hands]
-
- " 'VOOOOMMM'?!? Mate, this parrot wouldn't 'voooommm' if you put four
- million volts through it!! It's bleeding DECEASED!!! "
-
- "No, no, he's pining!! "
-
- "He's NOT pining, he's PASSED ON!! This parrot is NO MORE!! He has
- ceased to be! He's expired, and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff!
- Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you 'adn't nailed it to the
- perch, it'd be pushin' up the daisies! His metabolic processes are
- now -- history!! He's up the creek! He's kicked the bucket, he's
- shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the
- bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS -- IS AN EX-PARROT!!! "
-
- [Pause]
-
- "... Well, I'd better replace it then! " [Looks around the shop]
-
- [Customer, to the audience] "If you want to get anything done these
- days, you've got to complain 'til you're blue in the mouth! "
-
- [Owner, coming back] "Sorry, squire, I've 'ad a look about the back of
- the shop, and we're right out of parrots--"
-
- "--I see, I see! I get the picture! --"
-
- "--I've got a slug! "
-
- "... Pray, does it talk? "
-
- "... Not really... --"
-
- "--WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT IS IT ?!?!?! "
-
- [Long pause]
-
- "... Do you... do you want to come back to my place? "
-
- "I thought you'd never ask! "
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- [END]
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