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A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity.

John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to "clean up" the bird's vocabulary. Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even ruder. John, in desperation, threw up his hand, grabbed the bird and put him in the freezer. For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Then suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a minute. Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the door to the freezer.

The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's outstretched arms and said "I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I'm sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior."

John was stunned at the change in the bird's attitude. As he was about to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird continued, "May I ask what the turkey did?"

(Taken from, believe it or not, a physics teachers list.)

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Happy Thanksgiving to all!

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John had a parrot who always talked foul language. John tried everything, polite talking, shouting at the parrot, menaces … nothing worked. He talked about it to his parish priest. The priest said: my parrot is always praying. Send yours over I’m sure mine will have a good influence on yours. Soon said, soon done. The put the two parrots together. John’s parrot kept on talking dirty, the priest’s parrot kept on saying Hail Marries. Suddenly John’s parrot had a good look at the priest’s parrot and saw it was quite an attractive female. He approached her and said “hey gorgeous, how about me giving you some good time.” The priest’s parrot looked up to heaven and said “Thak you God, finally you have answered my prairs”.

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Which teacher?

This seemed like a strange question when I first read it, but I answered it anyway. However, it just occurred to me that you may have misread what I said. I now suspect that you took my words "physics teachers list" as "physics teacher's list," meaning a list belonging to a physics teacher, whereas I was referring to a list for physics teachers.

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