Three nuns passed every day through a street that led from church to the reformatory. They noticed a parrot that stood at the entrance of a big residential house.

Every time they passed in front of that house, the parrot would pronounce three sequential colors. One day they heard “yellow, blue, black.” One of the nuns noticed that those colors perfectly matched the color of their underwear. She mentioned her discovery to the other two nuns, but both were reluctant to believe that could be possible.

The next day they all wore black underwear and passed in front of the house. Precisely the parrot spoke “black, black, black.” Hearing that, the three nuns were astonished! One of the nuns suggested: “Girls, tomorrow we are going to trick that bird.”

Saying that, she recommended that the next day they would not wear underwear under their vestments. Respecting their agreement, the next day they wore no underwear and proceeded to pass in front of the Parrot’s house. They peeked at the bird. At the beginning, it looked a bit puzzled, swung back and forth on the cane on which he rested……after a while the Parrot spoke, “Straight, Straight, Curly!”

HUMOUR FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS):

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now.

The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference.

The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.

To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate

The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.

Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.

We’ll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.

When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.

The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.

The dead batteries were given out free of charge.

If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.

A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.

A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.

A will is a dead giveaway.

A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

If you don’t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.

Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I’ll show you A-flat miner.

When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.

You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.

Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.

He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.

A calendar’s days are numbered.

A lot of money is tainted: ‘Taint yours, and ‘taint mine.

A boiled egg is hard to beat.

He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine

When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she’d dye

Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses.

Acupuncture: a jab well done.