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Subject: Ooops!.................... Author: Dave P. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 18:05:33 05/28/05 Sat Speaking of 'fowl' mouthed feathered friends! Many years ago, I was a chauffeur to a Captain of Industry who was also a director of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. The monthly board meetings would normally be held of an evening and, invariably, turn into a bit of a session that would lead up to a rather long and boring night for us drivers. One of the features of the B'ham Botanical Gardens was, and still maybe for all I know, a quite scruffy, elderly and talkative mynah bird that lived in the large greenhouse that was part of the entrance to the gardens. One night, myself and a colleague of mine, an ex Grenadier Guardsman named George Green (who's boss was named Bob Smart), decided to teach this bird a few squaddie phrases. After a couple of hours and not seeming to have much success, we gave up. Imagine our embarrassment then when, as our relevant bosses where leaving the boardroom and passing the perch of this crow, the bloody bird starts screaming "Bob Smart is a wanker!". As if that wasn't enough, we were informed, a couple of days later (during an interview without coffee!), that the bird had had to be removed from the public area as it was telling everybody to "f**k off". Good job our bosses where ex squaddies too and could see the funny side but they made us sweat for a few days I can tell you! [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]