# A small, temperamental parrot from Australia

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 4, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-small-temperamental-parrot-from-australia/611788 "2012-02-04T20:54:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-small-temperamental-parrot-from-australia/611788/21 "2012-02-08T06:06:42Z")

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Throwing food? Lame. I had one that got out and brought a packet of matches back to the cage. I removed them, then told my coworkers that if there was a can of gasoline in the cage the next day the bird was going back to the pet store.

I named that bird Molotov.

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