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(Message started by: maryl on May 30th, 2003, 4:11pm)
Title: Parrot
Post by maryl on May 30th, 2003, 4:11pm
A petshop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears". Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be?
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by wowbagger on May 30th, 2003, 5:02pm
Is the parrot deaf?
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by Riddler man on May 31st, 2003, 7:52pm
The person who baught the parrot was deaf
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by wowbagger on Jun 1st, 2003, 11:19am
The problem statement says:


on 05/30/03 at 16:11:38, maryl wrote:
Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word.

Maybe they're both deaf?

I wonder whether this is really supposed to be in the "what happened" forum.
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by maryl on Jun 1st, 2003, 11:32am

on 05/30/03 at 17:02:12, wowbagger wrote:
Is the parrot deaf?


What?
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by Sir Col on Jun 2nd, 2003, 6:04am
He was suggesting that, if the parrot repeats what it hears and was deaf, it would repeat nothing.

Alternatively, as the parrot repeats EVERYTHING it hears, it must have heard a lot of silence in its lifetime. Maybe Davey wasn't around when it got around to saying what it heard Davey say?
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by maryl on Jun 2nd, 2003, 6:17am

on 06/02/03 at 06:04:17, Sir Col wrote:
He was suggesting that, if the parrot repeats what it hears and was deaf, it would repeat nothing.

Alternatively, as the parrot repeats EVERYTHING it hears, it must have heard a lot of silence in its lifetime. Maybe Davey wasn't around when it got around to saying what it heard Davey say?


Sir Col: I was just mimicking the parrot.
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by wowbagger on Jun 2nd, 2003, 7:54am
 ;D
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by Sir Col on Jun 2nd, 2003, 8:34am

on 06/02/03 at 06:17:37, maryl wrote:
Sir Col: I was just mimicking the parrot.

Sorry!  :-[

The flatness of the medium on which we post suffers our attempts at irony. Of course, if I were better acquainted with the regulars on the board I might have expected as much.
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by Leonid Broukhis on Jun 2nd, 2003, 6:11pm

on 05/30/03 at 16:11:38, maryl wrote:
A petshop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears". Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be?


The shopkeeper said, [hide]"Was there anything resembling `immediately', or `within two weeks' on the sign? No? Do you know how long these parrots live? So there."[/hide]
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by wowbagger on Jun 5th, 2003, 2:01am
I like your answer, Leonid.

The shopkeeper could also ask Davey whether he didn't sleep for two whole weeks. Otherwise the parrot could have repeated everything while Davey was asleep.
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by Percy_Vere on Jan 16th, 2005, 2:41am
Could the shopkeeper and owner be two serarate people? By definition, a shopkeeper can be the owner or a manager entrusted to 'keep' or look after a shop.

If this were the case then the owner could have unwittingly or deviously sold the parrot under the pretext that it could repeat everything it heard where in fact the reverse could be true. The shopkeeper/manager not having been implicated before can truthfully say that he had'nt lied.  
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by Grimbal on Jan 17th, 2005, 7:48am
Yes, the parrot repeats everything it hears.  But it hasn't heard everthing yet, so it didn't start repeating it.
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by cheesepuff on Nov 3rd, 2005, 7:34pm
[hide]perhaps the parrot just kept repeating "everything it hears."[/hide] Oh wait, that wouldn't work if it didn't say anything at all... Is the riddle worded the right way?
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by Icarus on Nov 3rd, 2005, 7:39pm
There is nothing wrong with the wording. Wowbagger solved it in the 1st reply.
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by Cristal on Nov 10th, 2005, 8:06pm
Well... what if you were to think outside the box... :-/

Like if the shop keeper literally meant that the parrot only said "Everything it hears."  And Davey didn't hear the parrot say "A word" because it only says "everything it hears."

Would that kinda work if you think about it  ???
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by Sjoerd Job Postmus on Nov 14th, 2005, 9:21am
In my humble opinion, the shopkeeper didn't lie, or anything.
The parrot isn't deaf.

What is in fact happening, is that while you're asleep, he flies to the shopkeeper, tells him everything you have said, and flies back before you wakeup.

Then, when you go to the shopkeeper to complain, he'll blackmail you into paying even more ;)...
Title: Is there parrots who are unable to speak?
Post by edde on Dec 5th, 2005, 10:24pm
im asking cuz i bought a parrot, for 2 days now and i didnt hear voice until now.. im scared its not able to speak.. it didnt even scream for a sec.
Title: Re: Is there parrots who are unable to speak?
Post by towr on Dec 6th, 2005, 3:33am

on 12/05/05 at 22:24:45, edde wrote:
im asking cuz i bought a parrot, for 2 days now and i didnt hear voice until now.. im scared its not able to speak.. it didnt even scream for a sec.
Not all parrots can speak. It's only certain kinds of parrots I think. And it's something they need to learn, probably from a young age.
You'd probably have to ask whoever you bought it from.
Title: Re: Parrot
Post by Roy on Oct 6th, 2006, 5:02am
I still wish to see one of those parrots for real.......................................................................................................................................................................................................


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