Being that the sketch is universally called the Dead Parrot Sketch (to the point of the 20th anniversary collection called 'Dead Parrot Sketch Not Included' I have to vote for at least Resting, if not Dead. A good test of cultural knowledge: google 'sleeping parrot' and 'dead parrot'. At least 'resting' is in the sketch. Laurie "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, 1953