Get Me Rewrite! Hold On, I'll Pass You to the Computer

In the famous sketch from the TV show "Monty Python's Flying Circus,'' the actor John Cleese had many ways of saying a parrot was dead, among them, "This parrot is no more," "He's expired and gone to meet his maker," and "His metabolic processes are now history."

Read more:http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/25/technology/circuits/25next.html?ex=1216440000&en=96a61d504384420b&ei=5070