We shall fight in the bird cage, we shall fight in the -- Well, that's about it, I suppose. We shall fight in the bird cage. At least until Mrs. Grimsby puts the sheet over the top.

Here's Sarah Lyall on the parrot that may or may not have belonged to Winston Churchill. Lyall is unable to confirm the story's wackiest assertion: That the bird occasionally lets loose with an anti-Nazi broadside in something like the late PM's own voice. (She does track the rumor back to the reporter who first put it into print, but he doesn't exactly claim it's rock-solid -- he says he thinks he remembers reading it on the Internet.) NY Times login and password req.