Answered Prayers
A lady bought a parrot from the pet shop, only to find after taking the
bird home, the bird would
say nothing but, "My name is Mary & I'm a whore." Weeks of trying to
teach the bird other
phrases proved useless, & the bird still dropped the same line, usually
at the most inopportune
moments, much to the lady's embarrassment. One day her parish Priest
dropped by for a visit,
& sure enough, while he was there the parrot squawked out the only words
it would say. After
apologizing profusely to the Priest, the lady explained her bird
resisted all efforts at reformation.
The Priest offered to take the bird to visit the two birds he had, as
all his birds would say were
Hail Marys while clutching rosaries in their talons, & he was certain
they would be a good
influence on the lady's bird. So he took the parrot to his house & put
it in the cage with his two
birds, & the first words out of the newcomer's mouth were, "My name is
Mary & I'm a whore."
The priest, being most anxious to see what would happen was dumbfounded
when one of his
birds said to the other,
"Throw that damn rosary away, our prayers have been answered!"
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