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Paulie is a humerous movie about life through a parrot's POV.
A charming movie featuring two strong characters who genuinely befriend the little parrot separated from his young owner.
Portraying a parrot telling a Russian immigrant janitor (Tony Shalhoub) of how he searched America for his original owners, the movie tells several stories.
A very refreshing story, the life of a parrot with an intellect higher than an average human's.
The movie was about a little girl who owned a parrot of whom she named Paulie.
He might have said "action" and "cut" during the filming, but so does a parrot.
Throw in some of the worst acting imaginable, a sub-plot about ape men that goes nowhere, a laughably ridiculous dance sequence, and a parrot so annoying you'll want to strangle the nearest ornithologist and you've got The Wild Women of Wongo.
Turn your head and run from this movie, other than the "Attractive Female"...and the parrot this movie has no real value to anyone anywhere...I know B movies aren't always good...but this one, just makes me sad.
Her mother turns into a dresser and her father a parrot, all due to radiation.
Arthur Lowe is slowly turning into a parrot (which is then eaten by Spike Milligan), while his wife, the owner of her own death certificate, turns into a wardrobe.
At first it's very entertaining to pick out all of the production bloopers, and make fun of the horrid acting (including a person making a "squak" noise for Hulk's parrot instead of having the parrot actually squak.)
At this point I switched off and for a few seconds I thought about making it my purpose in life to warn everyone off buying or renting this movie - I gave it a rating of 1 for the nice forest scenery and the silly parrot with the fake voice.
He goes for every cliché and stereotype of an old sea captain save a wooden leg and a parrot on his shoulder.
A parrot with a food obsession?
chicken little is not that a good film it has animals pretending to be human and the plot of the sky falling down was not really good i think when they make a animated film with animals just use them as as true to life as they get like a talking parrot that helps people not like a fish with a helmet full of water how would the rest of his body coup with the surroundings.
But the jokes about the Doha Round, which is in its tenth year, are far worse – akin to the classic Monty Python sketch in which a customer holds up a dead parrot in a cage while the shopkeeper insists that the parrot is only “resting.”
When the parrot drops off its perch in the cage, the customer insists that it is now clear that the parrot is dead.
Just as the economist Lester Thurow famously declared at Davos in 1988 that “GATT is dead,” the current refrain is that the WTO is Monty Python’s parrot.
The High-level Trade Group, co-chaired by myself and Peter Sutherland, argued at Davos that this can best be achieved through a high-stakes gamble of announcing a date – such as the end of 2011 – by which the negotiations are declared completed or the parrot is knocked off its perch.
Another option would be to scan, say, the iris of a parrot at point of export to ensure that it is not replaced with another parrot.
Economics for ParrotsBERKELEY – It is said that the early nineteenth-century British economist J.R. McCulloch originated the old joke that the only training a parrot needs to be a passable political economist is one phrase: “supply and demand, supply and demand.”
But it should be easy – at least for an average parrot – to tell whether a fall in sales is due to a shortage of supply or a shortage of demand.
McCulloch’s parrot would call this conclusive.
Once again, an adequately trained parrot, unlike many economists nowadays, would ask whether the economic problems that current levels of government debt are causing reflect too much public debt supplied by governments or too much public debt demanded by the private sector.
For a parrot, that’s a no-brainer: the public-debt problem is not that governments have issued so much debt that investors have lost confidence, but that governments have issued too little debt given the enormous private-sector demand for safe places to park wealth.
The problem, the parrot would say, is that households and businesses are still trying to build up their stocks of safe, high-quality assets, and are switching expenditures from buying currently-produced goods and services to increasing their shares of an inadequate supply of government liabilities.
Typical of China, state-owned media that carried the original story instantly retracted their reports to parrot the party line.
The CBI has even been described as a “caged parrot” under the BJP, with its work, once considered the gold standard in Indian crime-fighting, now often viewed as politically motivated.
Nonetheless, economists can be counted on to parrot the wonders of comparative advantage and free trade whenever trade agreements come up.
(Small ones were removed from the list when one candidate, running against another whose symbol was a parrot, wrung the neck of a live parrot at a public meeting to signify what he would do to his rival.)
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