Yesterday my brother's African Gray parrot was entertaining my 9 yr old grandaughter, and her little friend.
My grandaughter's little friend told me, "we used to have a bird that talks, but we had to give it away because it started cussing."

I said, "oh my goodness."

The little girl replied, "yeah, well, it's cause of my Daddy, he cut his finger open with a really sharp knife."

I was like this: