Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 28, 2015
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Transcript:
Goat: Hey, Steph, read any good books lately? Pastis: Yeah, I'm going to Australia, so I read tons of books on its history, topography, culture, geography. Goat: That's great. How much of it do you remember? Pastis: They have kangaroos. Goat: Problem with retention? Pastis: Why do I even bother reading?!
I’ve read when the first European explorers came to the land soon to be named Australia, they asked an indigenous person what the name of the jumping animal was. The response was what we now the animal as today as kangaroo though really meant in the indigenous language “I don’t understand what you’re saying.”