Thibodeau bought Boudreau a parrot one Christmas and called him a week later to ask how it was doing.

Boudreau said, ‘Thank you Tee! Mmm mmm, dat bird was delicious.’

Thibodeau got hot. ‘You mean you ATE him? Dat bird cost me a lot of money! It could talk in three languages!’

Boudreau replied, ‘Mais! He shoulda said somethin.’

— On the wall in a restaurant in Houma: