I once heard someone somewhere say that they knew someone who had spent years trying to disprove the existance of badgers. Their case being that no one ever saw a live one or the few live ones which are spotted could infact me remote control models. Sure we’ve all seen dead ones by the side of the road but they could be planted there by people who want us to believe that badgers are a real creature.
The theory went on a bit from there and was pretty funny but I am not doing it any sort of justice in the retelling so I’ll stop. But badgers seem to come up a fair bit – just today I got all befuddled about badgers and beavers when in relation to the names of groups of small children getting together to perform tasks for the extrinsic reward of a small cloth badge that I might even end up having to do sewing with. And it was not so long ago that I saw yet another mention on the BBC news site about badger culling too.
So I’ve spent a while tonight googling trying to find some reference to the whole Badgers – an urban myth? theory and uncovered nothing. This could of course mean I hallucinated the whole thing, or it could have a more sinister meaning. Such as the original discoverer of this great big badger existance conspiracy was catured by the evil perpetrators of this outrageous lie and all traces of his ideas wiped from the memory of all living souls and the internet with me being the only exception in a shadowy, half remembered, Total Recall stylee sorta way, or maybe I am actually the first person to realise this cover up, this huge scam and it is my own subsconscious that is nagging at me to bring the truth to the masses. Or the 20 odd people who read this blog at least…
Chris says it’s Layla’s theory. They’re an urban myth for sure.
Comment by Alison — 08 February 2006 @ 11:42 pm
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wildlifephotos/badger.wmv
see, there is not way that is real!!!
Comment by Chris — 08 February 2006 @ 11:45 pm
nah, I’d heard of the myth before I even met Layla – or had I?
Comment by Nic — 08 February 2006 @ 11:48 pm
infact it’s a poor imitation of a living creature. The jerky movements, the monochrone colouring, the ridiculous stripey head. Frankly these badger myth crims are taking the piss out of us big time!
Comment by Nic — 08 February 2006 @ 11:51 pm
I have one of the gits living at the bottom of the garden!
Comment by Roslyn — 09 February 2006 @ 8:30 am
No Ros, you just think you do. It’s a remote control one probablu operated by one of the gang who may well be living in the same road as you. Beware! 🙂
Comment by Nic — 09 February 2006 @ 8:45 am
Models, used by foxes to deflect the blame from themselves. Everyone loves ‘badgers’, even though they’re as carnivorous and pesky as foxes.
Comment by Alison — 09 February 2006 @ 9:20 am
small foxes in badger suits!
Comment by Nic — 09 February 2006 @ 9:23 am
Am also now wondering about the validity of pandas!
Comment by Nic — 09 February 2006 @ 9:23 am
Ewww… it’s body moves like a rayfish…
Comment by Merry — 09 February 2006 @ 9:24 am
I think I believe in pandas – but what about sharks? Have you ever looked at their eyes? They’re clearly robots.
Comment by Alison — 09 February 2006 @ 4:14 pm
submarines for those evil foxes I reckon 😉
Comment by Nic — 09 February 2006 @ 5:51 pm
This reminds me of when they discovered that spaghetti really grows in trees a while back!!!
Comment by karen b — 09 February 2006 @ 6:34 pm
I want to be a badger when I grow up 🙂
Comment by layla — 09 February 2006 @ 10:28 pm
I want some of whatever you lot have taken…..
Comment by Katy — 10 February 2006 @ 10:41 am
We’ll share with you next week Katy!
Comment by Alison — 10 February 2006 @ 11:25 am