> > A man goes into a pet shop to buy a parrot. The shop owner points
> > to three identical looking parrots on a perch and says:  "The parrot
> > on the left costs 500 dollars".
> >
> > "Why does the parrot cost so much?" asks the first man. The owner
> > says "Well, the parrot knows how to use a computer".
> >
> > The man then asks about the next parrot to be told that this one
> > costs 1,000 dollars because it can do everything the other parrot can do
> > plus it knows how to use the UNIX operating system.  Naturally, the
> > increasingly startled man asks about the third parrot, to be told
> > that it costs 2,000 dollars.  Needless to say this brings the question
> >
> > "What can it do?"
> > To which the owner replies "To be honest I have never seen it do a
> > thing, but the other two call him boss!".
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