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From: grady@ucbvax.ARPA (Steven Grady)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Net.bizarre Official Animal
Message-ID: <10383@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 19:31:56 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 14 19:31:56 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 12:23:39 EDT
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Reply-To: grady@ucbvax.UUCP (Steven Grady)
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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(The line-eater is getting a bit fat..  Maybe suggestions for a bizarre diet?)

>Ok, another candidate: the tree kangaroo, no joke. If you ever get to
>see a film of one you will notice it appears terrified of even small
>heights and almost unable to climb trees (though it lives in them),
>sounds like a natural net.bizarre existential hero if ever there was
>one.
>
>	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Well, the explanation for this is obvious:  There must have been a
kangaroo with these characteristics in a tree one day (probably via the
sick sense of humor of some schizophrenic aborigine), and okay, what is
it going to do?  It's paralyzed with fear (being acrophobic) thus would
being gripping the branch until it's knuckles (do kangaroos have them?)
are white.  It can't climb down (seeing as it doesn't know how, just
about), so it stays there.  Finally has children, and voila, a new
species (by the formal definition, since it can't breed with non-tree
kangaroos, them by definition never being in the vicinity).  Of course
all tree kangaroos are afraid of heights and/or can't climb trees, since
if there was one that could climb and wasn't afraid, it would just go
down, since what kangaroo in its right mind would want to live in a
tree? QED.

	From the bizarre, twisted, demented, sick mind of
	Steven
(I have no opinions.  Only personal facts.)