Comments on: I Am Green And Pretty. And You? http://frogparade.com/2008/12/i-am-green-and-pretty-and-you/ We like it here! One German and one American translating Los Angeles for the World. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:30:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Petra http://frogparade.com/2008/12/i-am-green-and-pretty-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Petra Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:08:15 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=495#comment-406 Oh yes, you do remember the episode, it is one of the most famous ones, the one where John Cleese takes his dead parrot back to the pet shop and the guy at the pet shop says: "He's not dead, he's just pining." Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Lq771TVm4 Oh yes, you do remember the episode, it is one of the most famous ones, the one where John Cleese takes his dead parrot back to the pet shop and the guy at the pet shop says: “He’s not dead, he’s just pining.”

Here’s the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Lq771TVm4

]]> By: Karen http://frogparade.com/2008/12/i-am-green-and-pretty-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-405 Karen Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:55:32 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=495#comment-405 I hope I never get too old to learn. I looked up parakeet, and it turns out what we in the US call parakeets are actually budgerigars, and the parakeet is actually a parrot. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parakeet" rel="nofollow">Parakeet</a> I hope I never get too old to learn. I looked up parakeet, and it turns out what we in the US call parakeets are actually budgerigars, and the parakeet is actually a parrot.

Parakeet

]]> By: Karen http://frogparade.com/2008/12/i-am-green-and-pretty-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-404 Karen Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:50:38 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=495#comment-404 I love MPFC, but I don't remember a pining parrot episode. Are those parrots or parakeets? I love MPFC, but I don’t remember a pining parrot episode. Are those parrots or parakeets?

]]> By: Petra http://frogparade.com/2008/12/i-am-green-and-pretty-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Petra Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:53:31 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=495#comment-403 Beautiful, lovely and loud! Before you see the parrots, you hear them. Always traveling in flocks, always screeching at the top of their lungs. The only quiet parrot is a sleeping parrot. Or a pining one (if you are acquainted with the immortal series of Monty Pythons Flying Circus). Beautiful, lovely and loud! Before you see the parrots, you hear them. Always traveling in flocks, always screeching at the top of their lungs. The only quiet parrot is a sleeping parrot.

Or a pining one (if you are acquainted with the immortal series of Monty Pythons Flying Circus).

]]> By: Karen http://frogparade.com/2008/12/i-am-green-and-pretty-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Karen Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:49:35 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=495#comment-402 Aren't they beautiful? Such a lovely change from sparrows! Aren’t they beautiful? Such a lovely change from sparrows!

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