B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for November 07, 2022

“A ‘Mr. Giraffe’ would like to talk to you on line 2”.

wanted to type a response here but then deleted it – i was expecting SOMEONE else to be the leader here

That’s one of those duck-billed whatchamacallits, right?

Not sure what it is. Is it supposed to be a platypus?

First a kangaroo, now a platypus. Where’s the Tasmainian devil? (And yes they are real.)

He really is a misfit – he’s like a duckbill out of water here.

Me thought me saw a platyputtytat.

The way this is worded, does not take God’s name in vain. If you wish to see a good example of taking Gods name in vain, look at trump laying his hand on a bible and taking the oath of office for the president, then on Jan 6th he voluntarily for his own personal gains breaks that oath! He used God’s name in vain and is a blasphemer. Here Gods name was used in a simple but strongly word of a declaration.

I like the duck-billed platypus

Because it is anomalous.

I like the way it raises its family

Partly birdly, partly mammaly.

I like its independent attitude.

Let no one call it a duck-billed platitude.

- Ogden Nash

What? No camel? When I would be called on to lead an “adaptation” tour at the zoo, I’d probably spend a quarter of the time just on the camel.

Do they hold their meetings at Possum Lodge?

speaking of misfits…and it’s almost that time…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDHF08vEZTg

When giraffes and camels [or even kangaroos) lay eggs and secrete venom from their ankles, then maybe they’ll be in the same misfit ballpark as the platypus (they’d still lose, but they’d be in the same ballpark). The monotremes (the platypus, a couple of species of echidna, and that’s it) are even odder than you probably imagine.

When the first (dead) specimen of a platypus was brought back to England from Australia, the Royal Society were convinced it was a hoax.

one of your best ones ever

Oh, there you are Perry!

Good cartoon.yip yip yip yip yip

The platypus is not an oddball. It’s elite.

I knew one of those things, he went extinct on a Tuesday! Come On, Kids, You Can Play Extinction Later.

lets screw up a comic strip and bring up religion.

He fits the BILL…

Where’s the chameleon?

The platypus exists to make elementary students question how to classify mammals. As I recall from elementary, mammals are all supposed to be fur-bearing, warm blooded, have live births, and suckle their young. The platypus hits 50% on that list (maybe 75% if we count that they produce milk but don’t have teats).

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He inherits the title of King Moonracer.

Misfits club, eh? Can I join?

Hey, the platypus is proof that God has a sense of humor … just look at it … ;)

Where’s the turtle and his bird companion? They should be in this group?

Mind your platypus duck, Bill.

There were some hellacious creatures in Terror Australis large marsupials and lizards. The largest monitor lizard was the Butcher 25ft long. It could eat Komodo dragons one gulp at a time. Kangaroos 6ft-10ft tall, Diprotodons elephant sized marsupials related to koalas & a marsupial carnivore called Thylacoleo carnifex an ambush hunter with thumb claws.

8 million years ago, late Miocene.

https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/

And thus Australia was born.

No, that’s not me.

A platypus, figures.