The Time Has Come, The Parrot Said…

…To talk of many things.*

There's a moral in this story for all those security leakers, Demo-cats, and media types who are tryin' to break apart the Bush Administration.

"Chris Taylor, a 30-year-old British computer programmer, grew suspicious of his live-in girlfriend when his pet parrot began to imitate her saying, “I love you, Gary.” Ziggy, an 8-year-old African gray parrot, would also make kissing noises whenever the name Gary was mentioned on TV and would mimic Suzy Collins saying, “Hiya, Gary,” every time she answered her mobile phone.

"Confronted with the evidence, Collins admitted to a month-long affair with a coworker named Gary and moved out of their shared Leeds apartment that same night."

So far so good, right? The "whistleblower" triumphed. Well, don't pucker up too fast…

“[I]t really broke my heart to let Ziggy go,” Taylor, 30, told the Times of London in its online edition Tuesday.

Whoa, Nellie…er…Ziggy! Ya' blow the whistle on your pal's cheatin' sweetie and he dumps you as well. That sucks. Just ask Judith Miller.

“I love him to bits and I really miss having him around, but it was torture hearing him repeat that name over and over again."

Yeah… Sorta' like those Demo-cats gettin' tortured by hearin' the name "Cindy Sheehan."

*With apologies to Lewis Carroll.

posted by Harrison at 8:30 PM