David’s Solution to Animals That Bite
November 20th 2008 21:00
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At school, I hung out with a bunch of guys known as the nerds and for good reason: they were good at maths and science and had geeky interests such as Latin. Of course, the wonderful thing about this group of guys was their huge vocabulary. I got to learn words I would otherwise never have heard of. David (AKA Gilbert) had the biggest vocabulary and he wasn’t afraid to show it. He talked about the torus and scatology. He also told me birds poo, pee and bonk from the same orifice, otherwise known as the cloaca. Another guy, Thomas, told me in some cultures, Coca Cola is used as birth control. Thomas was so bright he used to always win the maths competition. In fact, we used to joke that Thomas didn’t need to get a job like everyone else; all he needed to do was enter the maths comp and live off the money prize.
One day David saw me with some stickers about safety. The stickers told us to wear a helmet and to put our seatbelt on. On the one about what to do if we got bitten by an animal, David wrote “Bite back”.
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Comment by Kleonaptra
Kalikapsychosis
Comment by Queenie
Quirky Folk
Quirky Queenie
Comment by GlenB
Raw Fish
Incidentally, reptiles also have a cloaca and the word is the origin of the slangword 'clacker' as in; You can stick this post up your clacker!
Comment by Kleonaptra
Kalikapsychosis
They bit me first! In horse politics, 'eye for an eye' is usually taken literally.
Comment by Queenie
Quirky Folk
Quirky Queenie
Yes, the headline was about the joke.
I didn't know that reptiles also have cloacas. Thanks for sharing.
Kleonaptra, that's good to know. But why do they bite you in the first place?
Comment by Kleonaptra
Kalikapsychosis