-----Original Message----- From: Lionel Coen Sent: Thursday, 18 December 2008 9:20 PM John received a parrot as an early Christmas gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every wordout of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anyt..