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!"
prep. Expressing separation or origin, followed by: 1 person, place, time, etc., that is the starting-point (dinner is served from 8; from start to finish).
- place, object, etc. At a specified distance etc. (10 miles from rome; far from sure).
- a source (gravel from a pit; quotations from shaw). B giver or sender (not heard from her).
- thing or person avoided, deprived, etc. (released him from prison; took his gun from him).
- reason, cause, motive (died from fatigue; did it from jealousy).
- thing distinguished or unlike (know black from white).
- lower limit (from 10 to 20 boats).
- state changed for another (from being poor he became rich).
- adverb or preposition of time or place (from long ago; from abroad; from under the bed). from time to time occasionally. [old english]
