n. Incredibly odd animal with ludicrously improbable physical, behavioural and emotional characteristics unseen outside Hollywood. Thought by habitually
beer-dozzled Australian scientists to be a cross between a platypus and another platypus. Aborigines, who worshipped the platypi as very peculiar crippled and mentally handicapped gods imbued with irreplaceable mystical powers and the souls of dead aboriginal heroes, were reluctant to
kill and
eat the strange creatures unless they were hungry. After every edible part of the delicious gods were consumed all of the remaining bits, some of which were rather
nasty and in fact poisonous, were employed to create everything a
stone-age
people could possibly need … assuming they were not interested in leaving the stone age.
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Dear
God Bruce! What in rotting
wombat guts is that smeared on your wellies? It smells like vegamite gone septic.
No worries mate. It’s platypus bile. The aborigines use it to waterproof their ocean-going rafts.
Perhaps that’s why they never got off this bleeding swelter bog of a continent.