A poll, of 2,000 adults in the UK, found 22 per cent can't help but giggle when a bird poos on someone’s head.

A pigeon with a hole in its neck pecks at a plastic water bowl. Scroll. A woman, her face and hands coated in a shiny paste the colour of Vegemite, runs the back of a butter knife along her left cheek ...

And because children are into teasing, Nowitzki's friends made fun of his height and reed-thin frame by comparing him to a TV cartoon villain. According to Dirk, when they went swimming for their PE ...