Comments on: The Parrot theory

By: david

david — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:35:33 +0000

Thank you. The real story is that Frisco (this Parrot) does speak quite allot. But, if you are planning on making this kind of spoof video, you ask the owner NOT to use any of the words it knows.
Also the way speak to the woman! I certainly would never talk to a customer in such an off hand way.

Next, I think I will try performing dogs.

David Berman / sitbonzo

By: Jo Wadsworth

Jo Wadsworth — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:56:49 +0000

I had the opposite experience – a story about spontaneously exploding lightbulbs, about a month after we got video at my last paper. I was told there was no way it would happen if I went down with the videocam, and to interview over the phone and send a stills snapper. I think you can fill in the rest of the story for yourselves . . .

By: Joanna

Joanna — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:29:19 +0000

That was a nice video. Made me giggle. Not disimilar to the heroic efforts of Birmingham Mail journalist Phil Vinter to get Alfie the budgie to sing opera.

By: Peg

Peg — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:53:00 +0000

I used to swear the presence of my video camera would make phones stop ringing. It was usually at a business or non-profit where phones were “ringing off the hook” on a certain topic. We arrive – phones stop! Another rite.

By: Alison Gow

Alison Gow — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:45:05 +0000

Love that video; nice to see newspaper humour isn’t restricted to groansomely punny headlines.
And just to prove your point, I’ll add that one of my first jobs as a trainee reporter was to interview… a mynah bird. It had (allegedly) a huge vocabulary but all it said to me was “auntie, auntie”. That was when I resolved to be the one sending others out on jobs.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:37:22 +0000

Thank you julian.

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:30:17 +0000

Rites of passage