Re: Rahona (Joke)

[Jeff Poling <jpoling@dinosauria.com>]

At 11:21 AM 3/30/98 +0800, Graeme Worth wrote:
>First we hear about Rahona .."menace from the clouds".
>Then we hear that the bird will need re-naming because Rahona is
>pre-occupied by a butterfly.
>OK - what sort of frigging' butterflies do they have in Madagascar!?

   Well, just think about what kind of adaptations would evolve to allow a
butterfly to survive in an environment filled with sickle clawed birds.
Come to think about it, I believe they did a documentary on one of these
beasts a couple of decades ago.  The movie was called "The Thing," although
I believe it was released under the name "Mothra" in the U.S.


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