A Froggy Went A Talking

Today's smile is courtesy of Colin C.

A bloke walked into the pub the other night and as the barman approached to serve he noticed that the customer had a Parrot on his shoulder!

"Excuse my asking" said the barman "but I don't think you've been in here before, I think I would have remembered the Parrot".

"That's true ' said the customer, producing a small guitar "the Parrot's just started guitar lessons with a different teacher who lives in the area as he's always been a bit of an entertainer".

Since the Pub was a little quiet the barman thought it might be in order to take the matter a little further. "Well, if he's not going to be two phased would he like to give vent to his prowess and play a tune for us ?"

"Of course he will ' said the customer, giving the Parrot his instrument and setting down on the bar, "it'll give me a chance to sit down with my drink and se how he's progressing."

The Parrot then proceeded to give the performance of his life, even though the Pub was beginning to get quite full by now, and when the customer went to the bar to recharge his glass, for which the barman would accept no payment, the customer said "would you like to see more of his act ?" withdrawing a Frog from a jam jar taken from his backpack.

The barman and the whole of the pub looked agog when the Parrot started strumming away , and the Frog, sat beside him on the Bar, opened his mouth and the most unusual singing act was under way!

This continued for several renditions after which the customer said "I think that's probably enough for the Frog, he tires very easily."

No sooner had the performance been curtailed than a flamboyantly dressed customer came up to the Parrot's owner and said "I'm in the business of handling a lot of singing acts around the clubs, and I must have the frog as a novelty act. Will you accept an offer of £1000 for him?"

The owner declined the offer, but the man became more insistent and upped his offer to £10,000.

The owner still refused to sell , since the two creatures were obviously good friends, and he felt that this was a ridiculously high offer anyhow for a frog!

The man was becoming even more insistent, and when he produced a cheque for £100,000 the owner finally gave in and accepted.

With that the delighted man thanked the owner most enthusiastically, popped the Frog into his jam jar and left the Pub.

By now the place was in an uproar having witnessed the bidding, and the barman voiced all of the customers' thoughts when he said to the Parrot's owner "You must be daft selling the frog at that price, you could have made millions with his singing."

"Oh no" said the owner, "the purchaser seemed so enamoured of the Frog how could I have refused, the only regret I have is that I forgot to mention..................

..................the Parrot's a ventriloquist!"