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Word: parroting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...force from his relatives. Also, a scientist who inadvertently crosses his genes with that of a chimp and creates a talking monkey. And some other scientist who comes up with a gene-therapy treatment that makes irresponsible people more mature. Had enough? No? There's a transgenic parrot that does math and quotes old movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bring Back the T. Rex | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...what the Beatles did for pop music in the '60s. They extended Britain's primacy of Cool through a decade that, in other respects, was pretty bleak. Not that a Silly Walk through Harrod's could lessen the likelihood of an IRA bomb, or a thought of the Parrot sketch could warm a body through a winter rendered heatless by the oil embargo. But the Pythons lightened the load. Whatever the real-life ordeal, their dose of surreal fun was medicine for fretful minds. They helped prove Britain could take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pythonostalgia! | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

...were being killed in the hundreds trying to rescue it." His 6ft.4in. frame nurtured a majestic scorn, whose clipped syllables instantly evoked centuries of institutionalized English sarcasm and sadism in the form of teachers and civil servants. He could apply this furious condescension to petty bureaucrats, a cheese or parrot shop customer, a professional arguer - almost anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pythonostalgia! | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

BIRD AS A WIRE According to the London papers, Chris Taylor learned the name of his girlfriend's secret beau when his parrot chirped, "I love you, Gary." He got rid of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rover to the Rescue | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...refresher course in the Brit sextet's cleansing silliness. All 45 of the original half-hour BBC shows are here, plus the 1982 Live at the Hollywood Bowl (a greatest-hits show, but ruder) and a 1998 reunion of the five surviving members, recollecting the canon: Silly Walks, Dead Parrot, Cheese Shop, Spanish Inquisition, etc. All together, Pythonites: Wink-wink nudge-nudge, say no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12 Delights of Christmas | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

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