A pet shop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said 'Parrot repeats everything it hears.' A young man bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be? -Riddles

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Answer :

The parrot was deaf!

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