Word: parroting
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...Parrot Cay resort in Turks and Caicos, $380-$4,800 a night...
Empty-nesters everywhere are giving voice to the plaint about their children's pets, in tones ranging from good-humored to peevish. When we got our kids that winsome puppy, that funny parrot, most of us never peered into the future. Nor could we foresee advances in veterinary medicine that have lengthened animals' lives, leaving parents not just with still loved pets but with geriatric cases as well...
...squabble within the household of Ampliatus, one of Pompeii's plutocrats, which brings him into contact with Ampliatus' sexy daughter and leads him to the mystery of his predecessor's sudden disappearance. Harris has a field day with the debauched goings-on at Ampliatus'--the menu includes honeyed mice, parrot tongues, a sow's udder stuffed with kidneys (with the sow's vulva on the side) and a moray eel fattened on human flesh...
Your item on the $2 million birthday party that former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski threw for his wife [Nov. 10] asked, "$2 million and the best he could do was Jimmy Buffett?" But Parrot Heads (as Buffett's fans are known) the world over would insist that Kozlowski's choice of musician was probably the single best decision he made during his Tyco tenure! RICHARD D. BELISLE Severna Park...
...joke. The Pythons were rock 'n' roll. So writing a definitive, collective autobiography to set the record straight - just as the Beatles did in their Anthology - is no act of hubris. And for all those now-grownup kids who still beg them to re-form and do the dead-parrot sketch one more time, The Pythons Autobiography (Orion Books; 360 pages), serves up a hefty slab of nostalgia. Time is tougher on jokes than on melodies, but it's hard now to explain precisely why Monty Python's Flying Circus, which launched on Oct. 5, 1969 with a skit about...