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güey

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Would you please explain to me the pun? I think it must be something along the lines of "suck seed" or "sick seed"... But it still doesn't make much sense.

What was born to succeed?
A budgie with a blunt beak.

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Yes, it's a pun on "suck seed". A budgie with a blunt beak would find it easier to suck food than a bird with a pointed one.

Budgies eat seeds and their beaks normally look like hooks, pointing downwards.
 
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Is the point that, instead of pecking seeds, they suck them?
 

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Yes! (y)
 
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