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.
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wildlifephotos/badger.wmv
see, there is not way that is real!!!
nah, I’d heard of the myth before I even met Layla – or had I?
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!
I have one of the gits living at the bottom of the garden!
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! 🙂
Models, used by foxes to deflect the blame from themselves. Everyone loves ‘badgers’, even though they’re as carnivorous and pesky as foxes.
small foxes in badger suits!
Am also now wondering about the validity of pandas!
Ewww… it’s body moves like a rayfish…
I think I believe in pandas – but what about sharks? Have you ever looked at their eyes? They’re clearly robots.
submarines for those evil foxes I reckon 😉
This reminds me of when they discovered that spaghetti really grows in trees a while back!!!
I want to be a badger when I grow up 🙂
I want some of whatever you lot have taken…..
We’ll share with you next week Katy!