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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 thoroughly fed up and yelled at the parrot.

The parrot yelled back.

John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even more rude. In
desperation, John threw up his hand, grabbed the bird and put him in the
freezer.

For a few minutes the parrot could be heard as it 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 softly 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 its
behavior, the bird spoke-up, very softly, "May I ask what in hell the turkey did?"

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