Stuff in the Plumber's Box

The kids' tv show, The Electric Company, had a sketch about a parrot. A plumber knocks on the door, and a parrot answers, "Who is it?" The plumber says, "It's the plumber, I've come to fix the sink." When the door doesn't open, he knocks again, and again the parrot says, "Who is it?" and so on. The process repeats about five times at which point the plumber gets so frustrated he has a heart attack and rolls over dead, complete with little x's in his eyes. When the homeowner comes back and sees the fallen man, she says, "Who is it?", at which point the parrot replies "It's the plumber, he's come to fix the sink."

Maybe you have to be here, but it pretty much sums up the past couple days...