Curchhill lives on in his progeny.

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13832640&method=full&siteid=50143

SHE WAS at Winston Churchill's side during Britain's darkest hour. And now Charlie the parrot is 104 years old...and still cursing the Nazis.Her favourite sayings were "F*** Hitler" and "F*** the Nazis". And even today, 39 years after the great man's death, she can still be coaxed into repeating them with that unmistakable Churchillian inflection.




http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/mirror/jan2004/6/3/000A25C2-B39D-100B-9C6B80C328EC0000.jpg

[AWPrime]

It warms my heart.

[DustyBottoms]

Now this was a fun thread to read! :)

Thanks for posting it.

[sinecure]

104??? Anybody know how long those birds live?

[It seems to have some feathers missing... Looks as though the bird was caught with its pants down! :lol :lol ]

[jstnomega]

Is this where fr comes the colloquialism re giving someone the bird?????????????

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http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm%3Fid=2430458

But the Churchill family has questioned the story and experts doubt whether or not the former prime minister, ever owned a parrot.

Staff at Chartwell, Churchill’s country home in Kent now run by the National Trust, have conducted painstaking search of records and photographs without finding evidence that he even owned a parrot.

Judith Seaward, marketing manager at Chartwell, said: “We really looked and looked and know he had a budgerigar and all sorts of other animals.

“He loved animals, he had dogs, cats, pigs – but there’s no record of a parrot.