sockmonkeyNH wrote:
>
>I love a good coffee frappe, haven't had a decent one since Woolworth's
>ent out a million years ago. Here, a milkshake is just milk and flavoring,
>ike a frothy chocolate milk. A frappe is made with ice cream, milk, and
>lavoring. Damn, now I'm really missing Woolworth's, we used to stop
>here every day after school. Four or five of us used to chip in to come
>p with 25 cents for a big plate of French fries, then cover the whole thing
>ith ketchup.
>
>Our Woolworth had a resident bird with a filthy mouth. The older kids
>sed to teach it dirty words, so you'd be just innocently shopping around
>he store when all of a sudden you'd be assaulted with screeching loud
>bscenities. Good old days, I wonder whatever happened to that old bird.
>
>Denise in NH

Squawk, squawk... nice tatas hanging there, lady... Squawk, squawk!

In article >,
> wrote:

> Our Woolworth had a resident bird with a filthy mouth. The older kids used
> to teach it dirty words, so you'd be just innocently shopping around the
> store when all of a sudden you'd be assaulted with screeching loud
> obscenities. Good old days, I wonder whatever happened to that old bird.

If it was a parrot, it could easily still be around swearing at a new
generation of kids. Some species of parrots live a long, long time.

leo

On 5/3/2017 7:59 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> In article >,
> > wrote:
>
>> Our Woolworth had a resident bird with a filthy mouth. The older kids used
>> to teach it dirty words, so you'd be just innocently shopping around the
>> store when all of a sudden you'd be assaulted with screeching loud
>> obscenities. Good old days, I wonder whatever happened to that old bird.
>
> If it was a parrot, it could easily still be around swearing at a new
> generation of kids. Some species of parrots live a long, long time.
>
> leo
>
Yes indeed. If you acquire certain types of parrots when you're say,
30, you would do well to make provisions for the bird. The parrot will
likely outlive you!

Jill