Budgies! Budgies! We don't nee......................
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Funnily enough, Mao (as in Chairman) is the Mandarin word for Cat! (Check this, it may be Hokkien). So the leader of the peoples revolution was a pussy!
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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All this talk of personages much in need of facial re-arrangement has reminded me of my Grandmothers' Budgie. It was named Billy, with great originality, and it was the most vicious example of the species that I have ever encountered. The thing about it was that it was a sneaky little b..ba...bas.. budgie. It would allow anyone to pick it up on their finger, in the traditional 'picking up a budgie' way. It would even allow them to stroke its' breast feathers or tickle it, all the while chirruping and whistling away contentedly. Then when their attention was diverted it would take a great chunk out of some part of their hand, or even more painfully it would climb up their arm, sit on their shoulder and take the chunk out of their ear-lobe. Really, really painful! Anyway, when it would do that to me I would look at it and say "Do that again, and I'll smash your beak in!". That turned out to be the only phrase it ever learned to say. No "Who's a pretty boy then" just "I'll smash your beak in". Still I got my revenge. I actually volunteered to flush it down the toilet but they made me wait until it was dead. :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
We had one of those years ago. It learned to mimic just about all the wild birds and I taught it to cat-call, but only when a lady entered the room. Quite entertaining, actually. The funniest thing was when the poor thing caught a cold. It would sort of sneeze and a big bubble of snot would come out of the top of his beak. After a couple of days I called a vet and he told me to call the zoo, perhaps someone there would know what to do. So I called the zoo and talked to a bird specialist who told me they really didn't know how to treat the birds, but that sometimes a little alcohol helped. So out came a bottle of whiskey. We stuck a toothpick in his beak and got an eyedropper or two of booze down the bird and put him back in his cage. The poor thing would try to jump to the sides of the cage -- and miss. Then he sat on the perch, and fell over to where he was hanging upside down. I have to admit that watching a drunk budgie is a riot! Finally he got down on the floor of the cage and leaned over on the side and went to sleep. Sure enough, the zoo was right. The next day he was fine and back to normal. I still almost die laughing just thinking about the poor bird.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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We had one of those years ago. It learned to mimic just about all the wild birds and I taught it to cat-call, but only when a lady entered the room. Quite entertaining, actually. The funniest thing was when the poor thing caught a cold. It would sort of sneeze and a big bubble of snot would come out of the top of his beak. After a couple of days I called a vet and he told me to call the zoo, perhaps someone there would know what to do. So I called the zoo and talked to a bird specialist who told me they really didn't know how to treat the birds, but that sometimes a little alcohol helped. So out came a bottle of whiskey. We stuck a toothpick in his beak and got an eyedropper or two of booze down the bird and put him back in his cage. The poor thing would try to jump to the sides of the cage -- and miss. Then he sat on the perch, and fell over to where he was hanging upside down. I have to admit that watching a drunk budgie is a riot! Finally he got down on the floor of the cage and leaned over on the side and went to sleep. Sure enough, the zoo was right. The next day he was fine and back to normal. I still almost die laughing just thinking about the poor bird.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
I often find birds easier to handle if you get them slightly drunk first. :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”