A man goes into a pet shop to buy a parrot.
The shop owner points to three identically looking parrots on a perch and says:
"The parrot on the left costs $500."
"Why does the parrot cost so much?", asks the guest.
The owner says,
"Well, the parrot knows how to use a computer."
The man then asks about the next parrot. He is told that this one costs $1000, because it can do everything the other parrot can do, plus it knows how to use the UNIX operating system.
Naturally, the increasingly startled man asks about the third parrot. He is told that it costs $2000. Needless to say this begs the question,
"What can it do?"
To which the owner replies,
"To be honest I have never seen it do a thing, but the other two call him boss!"
- n. (pl. -ies) 1 a woman regarded as being of superior social status or as having refined manners. B (lady) title of peeresses, female relatives of peers, the wives and widows of knights, etc.
- (often attrib.) Woman; female (ask that lady; lady butcher).
- colloq. Wife, girlfriend.
- ruling woman (lady of the house).
- (the ladies or ladies') women's public lavatory. [old english, = loaf-kneader]
LAID
paper n. Paper with the surface marked in fine ribs.
- past and past part. Of *lay1.
- up adj. Confined to bed or the house.
LAIN
past part. Of *lie1.
LAIR
n. - wild animal's resting-place.
- person's hiding-place. [old english]
LAKE
district n. (also the lakes) region of lakes in cumbria.
- n. Large body of water surrounded by land. [latin lacus]
- n. - reddish pigment orig. Made from lac.
- pigment obtained by combining an organic colouring matter with a metallic oxide, hydroxide, or salt. [var. Of *lac]
LAKH
n. Ind. (usu. Foll. By of) hundred thousand (rupees etc.). [hindustani lakh]
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