This reminds me of a funny story my father told me many years ago.
There was a captain of a ship that traded between Holland and the East Indies. One day he got a parrot (species unknown) and took it back to his ship. Knowing how fowl mouthed his crew were he instructed them to never speak around the parrot. He kept his parrot in his cabin and taught him to sit on the lip of his soup bowl. Feeling very proud of this trick he visited with friends to show them his parrot. The captain had one of his crew waiting outside and told the crewmember to carry the parrot back to his cabin and inform the cook that there would be guests for dinner. The sailor had had a few drinks while waiting and being a little wobbly while crossing the gangplank he fell in the water. He climbed up to the ship thankful that his captain's treasured parrot was only wet. When the captain and his guests arrived in the captain's cabin the parrot was happily sitting on his perch, already dry. They sat down to dinner and the first course was soup so the captain called over his parrot who perched on the soup bowl. The lip of the bowl was slippery and the parrot slid into the soup. Climbing out of the soup and shaking himself the parrot said very clearly "gosh darn it, in the drink again".