Posted by Shelley Batts on January 11, 2008 Just when I thought I had the LOLParrot market cornered, someone at I Can Has Cheezburger posts this awesome (and atheist) budgie giving the Great Big Kitteh in the Sky the proverbial smackdown (or wing-down?). Happiness chirp goes to Jake, who sent me this!
Check it out under the fold.
(thanks for the heads up on the budgie!)
Shouldn’t it be “peck down?” \
Yes, a peck-down or beak-down would hurt far more than a wing-down. 
Good call.
Thank you. My first smile of the day.
Parakeet? That’s a Budgie.
Hmm my budgie is also an atheist, my parrotlet is a pantheist.
It looks like ceiling cat fell through the lampshade.
Thats frick’n Brill!
HAHAHA
Ceiling cat installed the eco-friendly light bulb/swirly-thingy and hit the road/sky to go haunt other ceilings.
My bird died and went to heaven, and now we don’t hear a chirp from him.
Your parrot is wrong. There is no God, but there is a Ceiling Cat!
How do I know? The same way every empty chair has an invisible cat!
That’s too funny. or “Why I always kept my budgies off the lampshades.”
And garth, one of the common names for that lizard is “Jesus Christ Lizard.” Don’t know if it’s just because it IS running on the water surface or because the first person who saw it went, “Jesus Christ, that lizard is running on top of the water!”
So, wait…
This being Plague Week ™, is this a clue that the real cause of Teh Plagez is psittachosis?
But there is a Windowsill Cat! It’s on my windowsill right now, having abandoned her previous avatar as Shedding Black Fur On Mostly White Sofa And Demanding Attention Cat.
Seriously, that bird looks like it’s going to nibble just a bit too far one day and receive a big surprise, then wonder where the perch went.
Parakeet? That’s a Budgie.
Budgies are parakeets. Although since parakeet isn’t a scientific term, simply being a descriptor for any small or medium-sized parrot, I’m surprised Shelley would use it. Surely a scientific-minded bird-fan would prefer more precise terminology? 
Very cute picture. I miss my budgies (all of whom were atheists, I’m ure). 
“parakeet” is even woozier a term than that; the usual definition is “any slender, long-tailed, zygodactylous, hookbilled bird”. (zygodactylous means two claws forward, two back, for non-bird heads.) i think you could technically call macaws parakeets, although i haven’t seen it done very often.
it’s tricky to tell from the LOLphoto, but i guess the atheist budgie is female; they’re the gnawers, out of nesting instinct. (adult budgies are sexed by the color of the cere, which is the bit where the nostrils are. juvenile budgies can’t easily be sexed.)
My ‘tiels* have some thoughts on all this
They say, “Wait, God doesn’t exist?”
And then they both say
(while the cat is away)
“Feed me or we’ll bite off your wrist.”
I wonder if they’d feel the same
(or would I just be changing the game)
Would they call me a sinner,
if, when the cat needed dinner
I’d forgotten to secure their cage?
God’s where you want him to be.
In a book, in the air, on TV.
One thing I don’t get:
Am I God to my pets?
I hope not; that thought terrifies me.
*Cockatiels, for all you non-avian types.
Every parrot I have known believes itself to be THE god!
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