Nigeria, July 13 -- What is heavier, 200 pounds of bricks or 200 pounds of feathers?

The answer is feathers.

200 pounds of brick is just a bunch of bricks. But if you try to carry 200 pounds of feathers, you also have to carry the weight of what you did to the poor birds.

A man kept a parrot. That parrot also used to talk, one day this man said to the parrot:

"I am going on a long journey, if you need anything from there, tell me."

The parrot said: "There is a forest of parrots, our gurus live there, our companions live there, go there and give my greetings to the guru parrot and say that a "slave parrot" living in a cage, in slavery, bound in a cage greets your free parrots."

The merchant reached there and he went and gave this mes...