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- From: jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy)
- Subject: Kiwis on Noah's Ark
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.064613.23599@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:46:13 GMT
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- It is all very simple, and I owe this flash of revelation
- to an Australian correspondent whose name alas I have
- forgotten. He mentioned to me that, according to some
- aboriginal legends, the platypus was the result of the
- rape of a duck by a rat. So there you are. The Kiwi
- is a cross of a midget with an emu. The emu itself
- is the result of the rape of a dungheap by a pair
- of stilts. The dungheap was produced by some of the animals
- on the Ark, and the stilts were used by Noah and
- family helpers to move about without sullying their
- feet in all that manure.
-
- This explanation is utterly scientific. It explains
- the maximum amount with the barest minimum. Just
- two stilts and a heap of shit! Why, Ockham's razor
- at its best.
-