[Mike Walsh]

A man with a speech impediment walked into a pet store and asked the clerk, “Dub yube sell birb seeb?” The clerk asked him to repeat what he said, and the man again asked, “Dub yube sell birb seeb?” The clerk couldn’t understand him and yelled at him to get out of the store and stop wasting his time.

Two days later the man returned. He aked the same clerk the same question: “Dub yube sell birb seeb?” The clerk recognized him and told him that he’d better say what he wants clearly, or else. The man tried again, and again the best he could do was to say, “Dub yube sell birb seeb?” Once again the clerk threw him out.

Two days later, the same thing happened. Twice the man asked, “Dub yube sell birb seeb?”, only to be rudely shown the door.

A week later the man once again walked into the bird store, this time carrying a dead parrot. The clerk saw him and started to throw him out immediately when the man said, with slow but perfect diction, “Do you stuff birds?” Well, that’s more like it, the clerk said. He told the man that they did indeed stuff birds, and asked how he could help. The man threw the dead parrot at him and said, “Stuftht thisth up your assp! You starfed the fing to deaf!”