One of my aunts had a paraquat - he was a poisonous little bastard (actually he wasn't, but I needed it for the joke) - called Chico. I recall one time when he was pecking at something between tiles on a side shelf thing, and my aunt 'threatened' him with a clenched fist, saying "you want some of this?" Whereupon he looked up at her and squared up to her, ducking his head and going "come on, then!"
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
