Roast Parrot

A Corkman on a visit to Dublin decided to send a surprise birthday gift to his wife at home in Cork. So he rang Interparrot and told them to send her a parrot that could speak seven different languages. When he arrived home that night he found that she had plucked the parrot and roasted it. 'You fool', he screamed at her, 'that bird spoke seven languages'.
'Well why didn't he say something before I put him in the oven?' she answered.