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[Andrew Weiss]

A man goes into a pet shop to buy a parrot. The shop owner points to three
identical looking parrots on a perch and says, "The parrot on the left
costs $500". "Why so much," asks the man? The shop owner says, "He knows
how to use a computer". The man then asks about the next parrot and is
told that this one costs $1,000 because it can do everything the other
parrot can do plus it knows how to use the UNIX operating system.
Naturally, the man asks about the third parrot to be told that it costs
$2,000. Startled he asks, "What can it do?" The shop owner replies, "To be
honest I have never seen it do a thing, but the other two call him boss!"

News of the Weird: Healthy Pork Researchers at Kinki University (Nara,
Japan) announced in January that they had successfully bred spinach genes
into pigs (the first mammal-plant combination) and claimed that the
resulting meat would be "more healthy" than normal pork. "But," added
Professor Akira Iritani, "the significance of this success is more
academic than practical."