While sitting on a platform waiting to speak, the seventy-eight-year-old Churchill was handed a note by an aide. Churchill glanced at the message, which advised, "Prime Minister—your fly is unbuttoned." Churchill then scrawled on the bottom of the note and passed it back.
It read, "Never fear. Dead birds do not drop out of nests."
It read, "Never fear. Dead birds do not drop out of nests."