PP: How do you explain the way pirates always seem to have parrots on their shoulders all the time?
PP: I mean how long as superglue been around anyway?
GG: For once you came u with an interesting question.
You can blame Robert Stevenson’s Treasure Island for it. He saw a seafaring trader selling parrots on a dock one day and ran with it. Parrots require a diet of fresh fruits and grains. Keeping them alive long enough for the ride home wasn’t possible until the screw propeller and steam engine were invented to shorten the journey. By then, pirates were rare.
You can blame Robert Stevenson’s Treasure Island for it. He saw a seafaring trader selling parrots on a dock one day and ran with it. Parrots require a diet of fresh fruits and grains. Keeping them alive long enough for the ride home wasn’t possible until the screw propeller and steam engine were invented to shorten the journey. By then, pirates were rare.