++> Heard a funny joke most appropriate to a PHIL echo-
                         .....someone might even agree?
 
 PHILOSOPHER PARROT
 > A workingman wanted a parrot but had no time to train one.
 > He went to a local pet store and found one that was already
 > trained to talk. The pet shop clerk tried to explain that
 > the parrot mostly cussed, using the very worst language,
 > but the man would not heed the warning and bought the
 > parrot. After getting home he realized the problem, but
 > overlooked the long string of explicatives ever outing from
 > the parrot's beak. Then one night the man had a dinner party
 > and half way through, the parrot came to life using words that
 > devastated the ladies at the party, who quickly upped & left,
 > leaving the man most angry. He looked at the parrot and said
 > "this time you are going to be thoroughly punished"!  So he
 > grabbed the cursing parrot and threw him into the freezer with
 > the other frozen foods. The man, his arms folded and his foot
 > thumping, said "this will fix him good".  Fifteen minutes later
 > he opened the freezer door and out popped a very changed parrot.
 > The man said "you've learned your lesson-  ???"
 > YES! said the parrot,
           .............but what did that poor ###### chicken do?
 
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 ...Is there room in philosophy ... _/QQ"\_ .....Dave.....
 ...for (attempted) humor ....?       < <
 ...attempted murder seems reasonably acceptable!
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