Why parrots?

[StugeronSteve]

Parrots have been synonymous with sailors for more years than Twister has sailed the seas, but why? After all a homing pigeon would make the perfect economy epirb and a kestrel would keep the starlings from cr****ng off the spreaders.
Maybe it's just that you get more conversation with a parrot than with a YM throwing up zzzzzs from the quarter berth!

Any thoughts on the perfect nautical feathered friend.

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[Ohdrat]

Well you could always go for a Magpie.. they can talk too and make excellent "pets" if you have sense of humour and indistructable surroundings.. infact they have many similarities with Parrots... Intelligent, Vocal ability and supposedly the ability to use language intelligently.. in other words they associate words / phrases with meaning!.. but they are "mischevious"!

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[StugeronSteve]

C'mon you Pies!
The only true Magpies wear black and white striped shirts, and they don't play on Tyneside!

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[Twister_Ken]

I'm still tempted by a pair of Great Tits.

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[Evadne]

Not bin dreaming of Mme LaPlume again?
The best bird for a boat is a barn owl. It eats any small bird that comes near the rigging, so your decks are clean of pre-digested blackberries in the autumn.



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[Salty]

Simple - parrots (like other exotic animals at the time) sold for a huge amount of money back in Europe, and because they were easy to tame they didn't try to bugger off once you'd got hold of them. So the pirates hanging around the Caribbean trade routes would swap/sell parrots between themselves, which isn't quite as romantic as swashbuckling for lost gold treasure...

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[Salty]

Now the weather's turning you're more likely to get Blue Tits.

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[jimi]

I like my parrot cos he's lost all his teeth but still succeeds!

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[Ohdrat]

Re: Magpies don\'t play on Tyneside

.. so where is Newcastle if it isn't on the banks of the Tyne?.. and yeah I know the original Magpie Stadium was in Walker.. but that's still Tyneside!??

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[bigmart]

But that ain't a Parrot. It's a Burgee.

Martin

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[oldharry]

Blame it all on Long John Silver.....

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[ccscott49]

Well! I mean, you can't really carry a labrador on yer' shoulder, now can you?
Although some round here might try!

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[jimi]

Bugger .. its a burgee

Its all that Haydn's fault sold it to me for £15 saying twas an african grey that could speak Bushmanese.

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[StugeronSteve]

Re: Magpies don\'t play on Tyneside

The true Pies play by the bonny banks of the Trent!

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[Ohdrat]

Re: Pies on Trent

yeah budgie (or should that be bushmanese speaking burgees?) pies!

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[bigmart]

Re: Bugger .. its a burgee

If thats an African Grey it's past it's sell by date. Look at it for gods sake it's turning Green. Might go down well with one of those Fray Bentos Pies they're trying to sell in the other forum.

Martin

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[Evadne]

Re: Buggeryjar

It's not dead, it's pining for the Fjords.

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[ccscott49]

Haydn of HLB fame has a donkey, I ask you a bloody donkey! Now you wouldn't want that on yer' shoulder, now would you? Hell of a talking point in the bar though!

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[bigmart]

Re: Buggeryjar

It is dead. It's an ex-parrot.

It's not stunned either.

Martin

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[Rowana]

Re: Buggeryjar

If it's dead then it's a polygon

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