Parrot - Revision history

Old Dickens: typo? brain-cramp?

2022-07-16T04:20:13Z

typo? brain-cramp?

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	Sending a dead parrot to its afterlife was probably irresistible to one who is Monty Python-literate.		Sending a dead parrot to its afterlife was probably irresistible to one who is Monty Python-literate.

	'''''He has ~~run~~ down the bleedin' curtain and joined the choir ~~invisibule~~! He has snuffed it! He has gone to meet his Maker! This parrot is no more! This.... is an EX-PARROT!'''''		'''''He has rung down the bleedin' curtain and joined the choir invisible! He has snuffed it! He has gone to meet his Maker! This parrot is no more! This.... is an EX-PARROT!'''''

Old Dickens at 02:19, 17 April 2014

2014-04-17T02:19:43Z

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	A supposedly talking bird, 50% or more of whose vocabulary revolved around one [[metasyntactic variable]], whom [[Eric]] inherited from a late relative along with the latter's books on [[Demons\|demonology]] and necromancy.		A supposedly talking bird, 50% or more of whose vocabulary revolved around one [[metasyntactic variable]], whom [[Eric]] inherited from a late relative along with the latter's books on [[Demons\|demonology]] and necromancy.

	In appearance resembling a mis-used toilet brush with half the bristles missing, the Parrot was given to [[Ponce da Quirm]] just before [[Eric]] and [[Rincewind]] ran away, very quickly, in the [[Tezuman Empire]].		In appearance resembling a mis-used toilet brush with half the bristles missing, the Parrot was given to [[Ponce da Quirm]] just before [[Eric]] and [[Rincewind]] ran away, very quickly, in the [[Tezuman Empire]]. The parrot accompanied da Quirm to [[Hell]], where it adds an extra dimension of exquisite torment to his afterlife.

	~~The~~ parrot ~~accompanied da Quirm~~ to [[~~Hell~~]], ~~where it adds an extra dimension~~ of ~~exquisite torment to his afterlife~~.		Parrots in general (though not this specific parrot) were used in {{MP}} to add sound to movies. This failed miserably, in part because the handlemen (cameramen) taught them to say things like "show us your knickers"... and the Discworld wasn't quite ready for films like that (yet).

			A [[Nothingfjord Blue]] is, alas, just another sort of [[swamp dragon]].

			The [[Octarine Parrot]] is a [[Pubs\|pub]] on [[Whalebone Lane]].

	Parrots in general (though not this specific parrot) were used in {{MP}} to add sound to movies. This failed miserably, in part because the handlemen (cameramen) taught them to say things like "show us your knickers"... and the Discworld wasn't quite ready for films like that (yet).

	== The Parrot in {{N}}==		== The Parrot in {{N}}==
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	Fittingly (see Annotation below), a determined effort is made by the mutineers to kill the parrot, which at first looks as if it has succeeded. (Cox, in the event, only wings it). Well, you can't have a Parrot in a Pratchett story without it having at least ''one'' brush with death, can you?		Fittingly (see Annotation below), a determined effort is made by the mutineers to kill the parrot, which at first looks as if it has succeeded. (Cox, in the event, only wings it). Well, you can't have a Parrot in a Pratchett story without it having at least ''one'' brush with death, can you?

	~~A [[Nothingfjord Blue]] is, alas, just another sort of [[swamp dragon]].~~

	~~The [[Octarine Parrot]] is a [[Pubs\|pub]] on [[Whalebone Lane]].~~


	==Annotation==		==Annotation==

	Sending a dead parrot to its afterlife was probably irresistible to one who is Monty Python-literate...		Sending a dead parrot to its afterlife was probably irresistible to one who is Monty Python-literate.

	'''''He has run down the bleedin' curtain and joined the choir invisibule! He has snuffed it! He has gone to meet his Maker! This parrot is no more! This.... is an EX-PARROT!'''''		'''''He has run down the bleedin' curtain and joined the choir invisibule! He has snuffed it! He has gone to meet his Maker! This parrot is no more! This.... is an EX-PARROT!'''''

AgProv at 19:35, 22 April 2013

2013-04-22T19:35:56Z

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	A [[Nothingfjord Blue]] is, alas, just another sort of [[swamp dragon]].		A [[Nothingfjord Blue]] is, alas, just another sort of [[swamp dragon]].

			The [[Octarine Parrot]] is a [[Pubs\|pub]] on [[Whalebone Lane]].

Osiris: 1 revision: Discworld import 2

2012-09-24T00:08:10Z

1 revision: Discworld import 2

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AgProv at 12:12, 16 September 2010

2010-09-16T12:12:51Z

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==The Parrot in {{E}}==
A supposedly talking bird, 50% or more of whose vocabulary revolved around one [[metasyntactic variable]], whom [[Eric]] inherited from a late relative along with the latter's books on [[Demons|demonology]] and necromancy.

In appearance resembling a mis-used toilet brush with half the bristles missing, the Parrot was given to [[Ponce da Quirm]] just before [[Eric]] and [[Rincewind]] ran away, very quickly, in the [[Tezuman Empire]].

The parrot accompanied da Quirm to [[Hell]], where it adds an extra dimension of exquisite torment to his afterlife.

Parrots in general (though not this specific parrot) were used in {{MP}} to add sound to movies. This failed miserably, in part because the handlemen (cameramen) taught them to say things like "show us your knickers"... and the Discworld wasn't *quite* ready for films like that (yet).

== The Parrot in {{N}}==
A parrot plays a subtle linking role in [[Book:Nation|Nation]]. Originally the ship's parrot aboard the [[Sweet Judy]], after that ship founders on the tsunami which wrecks the original [[Nation]], it escapes to the forest and enjoys itself by persecuting the [[Grandfather Birds]]. Taught to use most unbecoming language by [[Cox]], [[Polegrave]] and [[Foxlip]], as part of their campaign to undermine the authority of Captain [[Nathan Roberts]], it announces its presence with gleeful cries of ''Show us your drawers!'', and other similar remarks which would have sent [[Daphne]]'s [[Daphne's Grandmother|grandmother]] into a fit of the blue vapours. The Parrot can perhaps be viewed as symbolic of the forces of nature, sweeping aside established order. The British ship is wrecked with almost all aboard her, but the Parrot lives; the thousands of years of ritual and taboo that ruled the Nation, represented by the Grandfather Birds, are similarly batted aside with contempt by something new and unstoppable.

Fittingly (see Annotation below), a determined effort is made by the mutineers to kill the parrot, which at first looks as if it has succeeded. (Cox, in the event, only wings it). Well, you can't have a Parrot in a Pratchett story without it having at least ''one'' brush with death, can you?

A [[Nothingfjord Blue]] is, alas, just another sort of [[swamp dragon]].

==Annotation==

Sending a dead parrot to its afterlife was probably irresistible to one who is Monty Python-literate...

'''''He has run down the bleedin' curtain and joined the choir invisibule! He has snuffed it! He has gone to meet his Maker! This parrot is no more! This.... is an EX-PARROT!'''''

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