Two Irish men walk into a pet shop.  Right away they go over to the bird
section.  Gerry says to Paddy, "Dat's dem." The clerk comes over and
asks if he can help them.  "Surenow ,we'll be takin four of dem dere
budgies in dat cage op dere", says Gerry.  "Put dem in a peeper bag".
The clerk does and the two guys pay for the birds and leave the shop.
They get into Gerry's van and drive until they are high up in the hills
and stop at the top of a cliff with a 500-foot drop.  "Dis looks like a
grand place, eh?" says Gerry. He then takes two birds out of the bag,
places on on each of his shoulders and jumps off the cliff.  Paddy
watches as his mate drops off the edge and goes straight down for a few
seconds, followed by a 'SPLAT'.  As Paddy looks over the edge of the
cliff, he shakes his head and says, "Foock dat, dis budgie jumpin' is
too foockin' dangerous for me!"

 PART TWO

 ======= A minute later, Seamus arrives.  He, too, has been to the pet
 shop and he walks up carrying the familiar 'peeper bag'.  He pulls a
 parrot out of the bag, and then Paddy notices that,in his other hand,
 Seamus is carrying a gun.  "Hi dare, Paddy.  Watch dis", Seamus says
 and launches himself over the edge of the cliff.  Paddy watches as,
 halfway down, Seamus takes the gun and blows the parrot's head off.
 Seamus continues to plummet until there is a SPLAT, as he joins Gerry's
 remains at the bottom. Paddy shakes his head and says, " Fook dat too -
 An' oim never troyin' dat parrotshooting nider".

 PART THREE

 ========= A few minutes after Seamus splats himself, Sean strolls up.
 He too has been to the pet shop and he walks up carrying a familiar
 'peeper' bag.  But instead of a parrot, he pulls a chicken out of the
 bag, and launches himself over the cliff, with the usual result.  Once
 more, Paddy shakes his head.  "Fook me Sean, first der was Gerry wit
 his budgie jumping, den Seamus parrotshooting, and now you, fockin' hen
 gliding".
 


Cheers and Happy New Year

Jim, in Yellowknife, in the cold, in the dark



... I could be chasing an untamed ornithoid without cause.
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