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echo: bbs_carnival
to: T.J. Mcmillen
from: Mike Roberts
date: 2010-08-28 09:23:36
subject: Re: BananaCom

*** Quoting T.J. Mcmillen from a message to Darrick Burch ***

 DB>   TM> ... That parrot wouldn't VROOM if you put 5000 volts to it!

 DB> What on EARTH does that mean?

 TM> I dunno ... its a random tagline from taglines.txt file I have here
 TM> from 1993.

It's a line from the popular Monte Python Parrot skit. A pet shop keeper was 
trying to sell a dead parrot as if it were alive was the basis of the skit.

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