What should I teach my bird to say?

[wacki]

Cool Bird Video (http://media.animal.discovery.com/fansites/petstar/videogallery/season3/ep309_winner.html)

The video used to be a many many times better, they cut the length of it to a fraction of what it used to be. These birds are completely capable of memorizing the lyrics to entire songs/nursery rhymes.

I have 2 African Greys. What would be some cool things for me to teach them to say. Right now the best trick they like to do is ask for kisses and then they stick their head out, then when you kiss their beak, they may a lip smacking noise and start whistling/laughing and ask you "What are you doing?". I have no idea how they learned that one, but I want to teach them some tricks. Any ideas?

[Clarkmeister]

Oskee wow wow.

[TStoneMBD]

your bird could be the 2plus2 mascot if you teach it how to say "ill let others elaborate," "its not even close" and "do you see why?"

that would be hilarious btw.

[wacki]

I didn't know you were from Illinois. I thought you were another on of those Massachusetts guys.

[wacki]

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your bird could be the 2plus2 mascot if you teach it how to say "ill let others elaborate," "its not even close" and "do you see why?"

that would be hilarious btw.

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I think I might do that. He could pick those phrases up in no time. The question is, what should I use to cue the bird to say those phrases?

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

You definitely need to have something on the order of "nice rack" as well as some crazy song. I'm working on the song.

[Clarkmeister]

You might be the only one on the board who didn't know I went to Illinois.

Born in St. Louis
Grew up in Chicago
Went to U of I
Lived in Indy for 2 years
Vegas ever since

[Monkeyslacks]

"Wanna get high?"

[radek2166]

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your bird could be the 2plus2 mascot if you teach it how to say "ill let others elaborate," "its not even close" and "do you see why?"

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I'm sure gay fits in here sonewhere

[jakethebake]

Is Wacki BDids grandfather with the bird? /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[meep_42]

tur-nuh-mint.

-d

[astroglide]

i had a cockatiel that learned insane amounts of songs from my bbs dialer. for those that don't understand pre-internet it was common to dial into somebody's home computer to post messages like this, only there was usually 1 phone line for a local one. so it was busy a lot. what you'd do is queue up a bunch of places to visit, walk away, and wait for music to play to indicate that you got connected to one of them.

anyhow the software i used (telemate for dos) had various songs like leave it to beaver, andy griffith, etc and he learned them all. then he would recognize them on nick at nite. he also would ring like the phone, make police sirens, etc. anything he heard.

basically i imagine there are cds for cool [censored] to loop to teach your birds.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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andy griffith

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ring like the phone

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police sirens

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[TStoneMBD]

when you ask the bird a question he should say "ill let others elaborate" or "its not even close."

when the bird finishes saying something, he should end it with "do you see why?"

[NotInchoateHand1]

I'm too spent to think of a particularly funny way to say it, but some way to say "take off all your clothes, that's it baby, uhh huh, keep going" etc. This saves you the trouble of voicing those thoughts yourself, looks "cute," and provides a brilliant segue for female visitors.

[sublime]

What would be some cool things for me to teach them to say.

it was sooted

[lucas9000]

sup bro

[Matty]

Now I want a damned parrot.

I wonder if you can teach one to play poker as well as saabpo. Couldn't be too hard ...

Now I must get a parrot. 3 months from now my basement will be filled with computers and parrots ... mwahaha

[jakethebake]

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sup bro

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end of thread.

[MarkL444]

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sup bro

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hahaha! perfect.

[tolbiny]

if anything you should teach one bird to yell "check raise!" when ever someone says "bet". The other one should say "lets play some [censored] cards"

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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if anything you should teach one bird to yell "check raise!" when ever someone says "bet". The other one should say "lets play some [censored] cards"

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Brilliant.

[wacki]

Andy Griffith is a great idea.

He already rings like the phone, when you pick it up he says hello and starts laughing at you.

He loves to do sirens and alarm clocks. It's amazing because it seems like he can reproduce any electronic sound with extreme accuracy.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

That has potential to be quite hellish.

[wacki]

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Now I must get a parrot. 3 months from now my basement will be filled with computers and parrots ... mwahaha

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If you want to get a good talker, hand raise an African Grey.

[Dead]

Cockatiels can say a bunch of different things also.

[astroglide]

from what i understand african grey MALES are way better talkers. the females have a reputation for not talking at all, or as much.

[Sponger15SB]

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from what i understand african grey MALES are way better talkers. the females have a reputation for not talking at all, or as much.

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for the females to talk you have to get them really smashed or buy them nice things.

I read that in National Geographic. Yup.