Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for June 16, 2023

The Truth…

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

Just because it looks odd (to some folks) doesn’t mean it was unevolutionized.

hey… it worked for the chimera

https://i.ibb.co/9Vp67V9/chimera.jpg

The Lord Ikea

Robin Williams used to joke that the platypus is what you get when God gets stoned. “Hey Darwin! Here ya go!”

Good on ya, God!

Who says God doesnt have a sense of humour? I love the platypus.

Ha. This fake news. This not how it really happened at all. For obviously real God is a bear.

I’ve always said that the North American moose is what became of God’s spare parts. It is one butt-ugly animal.

Non mammalduckery

I think platypuses are adorable.

Did you know a Platypus is venomous?

Plattypuss..lol

Spare parts held together with duck [sic] tape.

The lamprey was made from an incomplete kit.

So that explains it!

My cousin had a dog that looked like the spare parts left over after God made all the other dogs. We’re not sure it was 100% canine. It was a walking testament to biodiversity.

them and reindeer

Could be that GOD started with the platypus and evolutionized from there.

it’s just a beaver that accidently got sat on

God’s not serious with monotremes…He’s only echidna us.

An oldie but goodie.

Where’s the fedora?

Mark Parisi is not far from correct, just no single master creator…

Perry?

God Smiled

When the platypus was first described to Europeans, they assumed it was a joke.

Thus Perry was born!