Dear Canadian Zoological Society Director of Registration of Newly Discovered Species; Gidday, eh? Please see the attached photo that I took on the weekend. It is proof that I have discovered a new species of flying frog in my back yard. I call it Flyingus Frogus Canadianus. (Neat eh? My wife thought that up.) I'd like to officially register this discovery as the most exciting discovery since the Bigfoot thing (not the monster truck – the animal). By my reckoning, it's approximately three feet from wingtip to wingtip, with enough frog legs to feed a family of four and is able to hover at awesome heights for hours (as long as there is a breeze, which there is most times off the lake). Please send me my ornery doctorship, cash and also refer me to higher authorities for international recognition of whatever kind is available.
Signed, Donny Ross
Dear Mr. Ross; Thank you for your submission. We receive all sorts of new species discoveries everyday and yours is most amusing. We've been passing it around the department all day and thank you for the laugh but it is obviously a kite. A kite does not qualify as a new species under the Canadian Zoological Society terms of reference for new species. Apart from the fact that we can see the kite string, flying frogs can only survive in the jungles of Southeast Asia and never measure no more than four inches in length. Thanks again.
Yours truly, Alfred R. Wallace, Director
Dear Alfie; Okay, the string. This is the god's honest truth, mind. I snared it when it landed for a few minutes to feed on some insects I caught in my bug zapper. When it took off again my cousin Danny (who's pretty big) was able to hold it in sight long enough for me to snap this picture. Then he had to let go before he was swept away into Lake Ontario. Water's still pretty cold this time of year and there is a mean under-toad near the shore. I wait on my money and doctor thing. Oh, and interviews for the Enquirer and such are okay too if you want to let the word out.
Donny.
Dear Donny; I'm afraid unless you can provide us with physical evidence we cannot recognize the discovery.
All the best, Alfred R. Wallace
Dear Alfie; Damn it all sideways. Okay, never mind.
Oh, by the way, you wouldn't happen have a number for the UFO department, eh? I snared one of those suckers too! (see below)
Donny
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
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