Laugh for the day

[Pburgh]

THE PARROT DIED

> At dawn the telephone rings. "Hello, Senor Rod? This is Ernesto, the
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> caretaker at your country house."
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> "Ah yes, Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?"
> "Um, I am just calling to advise you, Senor Rod, that your parrot died.
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> "My parrot? Dead? The one that won the International competition?"
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> "Si, Senor, that's the one."
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> "Damn! That's a pity! I spent a small fortune on that bird."
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> "What did he die from?"
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> "From eating rotten meat, Senor Rod"
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> "Rotten meat? Who the hell fed him rotten meat?"
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> "Nobody, Senor. He ate the meat of the dead horse."
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> "Dead horse? What dead horse?"
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> "The thoroughbred , Senor Rod."
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> "My prize thoroughbred is dead?"
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> "Yes Senor Rod, he died from all that work pulling the water cart."
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> "Are you insane? What water cart?"
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> "The one we used to put out the fire, Senor"
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> "Good Lord! What fire are you talking about, man?"
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> "The one at your house, Senor! A candle fell and the curtains caught on
> fire."
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> "What the heck??....Are you saying that my mansion is destroyed because of a
> candle??!!!
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> "Yes Senor Rod."
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> "But there's electricity at the house!!! What was the candle for?"
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> "For the funeral, Senor Rod."
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> "WHAT BLOODY FUNERAL??"
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> "Your wife's, Senor Rod... She showed up one night out of the blue and I
> thought she was a thief, so I hit her with your new Tiger Woods' Nike
> Driver."
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> SILENCE.................. , LONG SILENCE....
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> "Ernesto if you broke that driver, you're in deep $hit!"