Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
BBC: 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'
Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said. [...] Australia supplies about 50% of the world's legally-grown opium used to make morphine and other painkillers.
"The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Lara Giddings told the hearing. "Then they crash," she added.
The comments on the article are even funnier.
"making crop circles" = brand-new euphemism for stoned. Excellent, I'm looking forward to trying it out.
Posted by: Clownęsthesiologist at June 25, 2009 12:17 PMDown in Koala Bear Park there are signs warning you to "watch out for falling bears". It seems they tend to overindulge on the eucalyptus until they get so high they lose their grip on the branches.
Posted by: caradoc at June 26, 2009 01:49 AMHow much can a Koala bear? The wallabys are singing 'I'm on the drug that killed Michael Jackson"...
Posted by: waldo at June 26, 2009 12:18 PM2: Apparently they have extra bum padding so that they're not injured by these falls.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at June 26, 2009 04:07 PMAlso, this is interesting:
The brain in the ancestors of the modern koala once filled the whole cranial cavity, but has become drastically reduced in the present species, a degeneration scientists suspect is an adaptation to a diet low in energy.[14] One of the smallest in marsupials with no more than 0.2% of its body weight,[15] about 40% of the cranial cavity is filled with cerebrospinal fluid, while the brain's two cerebral hemispheres are like "a pair of shrivelled walnut halves on top of the brain stem, in contact neither with each other nor the bones of the skull. It is the only animal on Earth with such a strangely reduced brain."
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at June 26, 2009 07:25 PMRE: Koalas...they're probably far less likely to get punch drunk in their new, evolved state. A little gene therapy in the new crop of boxers and MMA fighters might go a long way here.
Posted by: Mr. Sticky at June 29, 2009 04:30 PM