07-10-2016, 12:25 AM
OKAY, I NEEDED SOMETHING TO LIGHTEN MY MOOD
AND FOUND IT!!!!
"Andrew Jackson’s Profane Parrot
I asked Marsha Mullin, the authority on all things Andrew Jackson at The Hermitage, where the story came from. She directed me to Rev. William Menefee Norment’s recollections, which are in volume 3 of Samuel G. Heiskell’s Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History:
"Before the sermon and while the crowd was gathering, a wicked parrot that was a household pet, got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house (54)."
MY COMMENT:
The great American patriot and president of the United States apparently thought it funny to teach his parrot a bunch of cuss words. Ha! So much for American Founding Father sainthood. I'm trying to imagine the solemn scene at Andrew Jackson's funeral with slaves crying and the excited parrot screaming curse words like a WWII sailor who just caught his wife in bed with a NAZI. Ha! I guess we'll never know what that parrot said...before the slaves ate him, right?
AND FOUND IT!!!!
"Andrew Jackson’s Profane Parrot
I asked Marsha Mullin, the authority on all things Andrew Jackson at The Hermitage, where the story came from. She directed me to Rev. William Menefee Norment’s recollections, which are in volume 3 of Samuel G. Heiskell’s Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History:
"Before the sermon and while the crowd was gathering, a wicked parrot that was a household pet, got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house (54)."
MY COMMENT:
The great American patriot and president of the United States apparently thought it funny to teach his parrot a bunch of cuss words. Ha! So much for American Founding Father sainthood. I'm trying to imagine the solemn scene at Andrew Jackson's funeral with slaves crying and the excited parrot screaming curse words like a WWII sailor who just caught his wife in bed with a NAZI. Ha! I guess we'll never know what that parrot said...before the slaves ate him, right?