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Originally Posted by pshrynk
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Roos: Has anyone ever been near a kangaroo? Not me, but Marc has. Ask him.
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Now, according to a scientific study which I can't locate at the moment and may not actually exist but lets pretend it does because it's much more fun that way, it is believed that due to a somewhat lacking in large land predators in Australia over such a long period of time until homo sapiens arrived here somewhere between 50 and 100 thousand years ago, Australian mammals (and, yes, you can expand that definition into social commentary if it floats your boat) are, on a broad scale, and relative to those in other parts of the world, somewhat stupid. There is a pretty good reason you don't often hear the phrase "as witty as a wombat" or "as clever as a koala" or "as rational as a roo".
A roo will mob you for a bread crumb on your shirt, and, with their Achilles tendons that could anchor a space elevator supporting nails that have "Eviscerator" written all over them...well, trusting one to in any way perform some heroic rescue activity is like expecting nothing bad to result from giving an angry and inadvertently violent gibbon access to a Gatling gun. The only potential leniency one can offer in judging the valour-value to ascribe to a roo is that they are, as mentioned, not "large land predators" and are unlikely to eat you unless you choose to go lie down amongst a large mob of the moronic marsupials while dressed in a thin armour suit made completely out of still-warm rusks.
Skippy was a lie. Also, I can never get that bloody gum-leaf whistle thing to work, which kind of pissed me off as a kid, and so my resentment of roos may have some deeply-repressed childhood origin (that, and possibly the time I got attacked by a mob of the bastards while coming back from the caravan park shop with a loaf of bread).
I hope this has been of some help. I always wanted to see Flipper foil a bank robbery
at the time it was occurring.
They call him Flipper, Flipper, 'cause he's got fliiiippers...
Cheers,
Marc
PS. I voted for the dog.