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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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dead parrot sketch
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Probably the most widely remembered highlight of *Monty Python, in which an irate John Cleese brings a dead parrot (a Norwegian Blue) back to the 'boutique' from which he bought it less than half an hour before. The shopkeeper (Michael Palin) insists that it is resting, or perhaps pining for the fiords. Cleese responds with a frenzied list of euphemisms for death, ending with 'It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.'
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