Churchill's parrot

This creature is still alive and squawking at the grand age of 102. Still going on about Hitler, too.

Splendid. It's parrots like this one that make our country what it is.

 

Oh, I thought the parrot in No.10 did that...

 

That nice Mr Blair? What about the (unelected) chimpanzee over the water?

 

the one that pull's Mr Blair strings?

 

Yes that would be the one. Shameful, really. The war was unbelievable.

 

Splendid. It's parrots like this one that make our country what it is. Squawk.

 

The white man's bird, then?

 

Nice one, Joel.

I also enjoyed this today (warning: the link makes sense only for today).

 

Was that parrot or pirate?

 

Parrot was on radio 4 'today' prog a couple of days ago. They tried to get him to say something, but he wouldn't. Great radio!

 

Radio 4 has had some classic stuff like this recently - the origami feature they had was most enlightening..... Mind you, it's still not as bad as the radio that a friend of mine from Finland was telling me about once - a radio show dedicated to night-time orienteering...

 

Excellent, yes I enjoyed the origami, too. Radio orienteering sounds like fun.

 

Radio 4 is the only plausible reason I can think of for even considering ever moving back to the UK.
Of course there's no need to go that far, it's streamed on the net (I have written to them to say I would be prepared, happy even, to pay to listen to a higher sound quality version and have access to a proper archive).
For Francophiles, Radio France is also available and is frequently superb in that deliriously pretentious way only the French (and Fox) seem able to do properly.

 

Well, I don't know about Churchill's parrot, but Jw's parrot Bub, still sit's on his left shoulder, squaking 'mana, mana, nothink' better than mana', it's all boolox without mana

 

I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government-every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation. The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength. Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old. - Winston Churchill June 4, 1940 House of Commons

Come on then birdy, lets see you 'polly parrot' that little lot.

 

Some find it early, some find it late. Others, Tony, not at all.