Who’s A Pretty Boy Then. 2.
For your further edification dear peeps,
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With reference to an earlier post today.
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Mr T has just informed me that the earliest known reference to the phrase ‘sick as a parrot’ originated in a book published in 1682, written by Aphra Behn, and titled ‘The False Count’.
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In scene 2 a chambermaid called Jacinta enters the drawing room and says, “Lord, Madam, you are as melancholy as a sick parrot.
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The first modern reference was in Private Eye in 1979, and this was probably rekindled by the hilarious Monty Python sketch about the dead parrot in the 70′s.
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There you are, do not say that there is no culture on my site.
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And thank you to Mr T.
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LOL
J
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