Budgies
Strange trousers worn by the poorer kids at school, which showed a few inches of sock (and if you were lucky, some flesh) between their shoes and the bottom of said trousers. They were flying at half-mast; hence the phrase “Has your budgie died?”

written by Ri*har* Ba*on, approved by Log

Strange trousers worn by the poorer kids at school, which showed a few inches of sock (and if you were lucky, some flesh) between their shoes and the bottom of said trousers. They were flying at half-mast; hence the phrase “Has your budgie died?”

Quite why it was only budgerigars that this unique phenomenon applied to, I will never know when a hamster, cat or any other family pet would do just as well, was strangely exempt.
written by Ri*har* B*con, disapproved by Log