...According to an Evening Standard billboard I passed this week.
Well, this clearly raises more questions then it answers.
1) How much of London has the Deadly Skunk flooded? I must live in a high-lying area of London, because it all seems fairly dry round here, but perhaps the flood waters are rising inexorable towards me.
2) What was the Deadly Skunk's motive? Does he despise London, perhaps due to a formative time in his youth when a tour-bus full of Londoners sneered at his stripe; or is it just that London is an easy city to flood, thanks to the Thames barrier?
3) Given that skunks are not indigenous to Britain, why was the Deadly Skunk allowed past customs and immigration? Given that he has earned the soubriquet 'Deadly', he clearly has past form, possibly from gassing Milan, or triggering a volcano under Sacrimento. Surely he should have been turned back at the airport? No, mark my words, there is more to this apparently simple story of a North American rodent bent on the destruction of a city than meets the eye.
Didn't make me buy a paper, though.
Saturday, 20 October 2007
Deadly Skunk Floods London
Posted by John Finnemore at 7:15 pm
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I am so absurdly happy that you noticed this. I was convinced I'd hallucinated the whole headline, but now I can tell the doctors that I'm not that mad yet.
Bless you, John Finnemore. Bless you whether you're sneezing or not.
Pedant Mode Engage:
Skunks are not rodents. They used to be classed as mustelids, but as taxonomy itself evolves, skunks are now in the newly-recognized Family Mephitidae, which is part of the newly assembled Superfamily Musteloidea, which also includes mustelids.
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