How to deal with your parrot...
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So there's this fella with a parrot. And this parrot swears like a 
sailor, I mean he's a pistol. He can swear for five minutes straight  
without repeating himself. Trouble is, the guy who owns him is a 
quiet, conservative type, and this bird's foul mouth is driving him 
crazy.

One day, it gets to be too much, so the guy grabs the bird by the 
throat, shakes him really hard, and yells, "QUIT IT!" But this just  
makes the bird mad and he swears more than ever.

Then the guy gets mad and says, "OK for you." and locks the bird in a 
kitchen cabinet. This really aggravates the bird and he claws and  
scratches, and when the guy finally lets him out, the bird cuts loose 
with a stream of vulgarities that would make a veteran sailor blush.

At that point, the guy is so mad that he throws the bird into the 
freezer.  For the first few seconds there is a terrible din. The bird 
kicks and claws and thrashes. Then it suddenly gets _very_ quiet.

At first the guy just waits, but then he starts to think that the bird 
may be hurt. After a couple of minutes of silence, he's so worried 
that he opens up the freezer door.

The bird calmly climbs onto the man's outstretched arm and says, 
"Awfully sorry about the trouble I gave you. I'll do my best to 
improve my vocabulary from now on."

The man is astounded. He can't understand the transformation that has 
come over the parrot.

Then the parrot says, "By the way, what did the chicken do?"
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