Now that I am back to work at Urine World, when I am not being blessed in the name of Jesus Christ by guests, I live in fear. Shadows swoop across the sky. Seagulls reign supreme. My fear is not some Hitchcockian distress. I have been pooped on before, and I will probably be pooped on again. By birds, that is. Visitors of the park have yet to smear their feces upon me, but I am sure that too is coming.
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| A vindictive seagull. |
In any case, in honor of the poop-based horror I meet daily, today's fun fact is bird-related.
Fun fact: Charles Darwin's editor wanted him to write a book about pigeons instead of
The Origin of Species.
Evidently, his editor thought
The Origin of Species would be too obscure to interest people, but pigeons? Oh, everybody is into pigeons! They pirouette!
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| "I'm wooing you so hard right now." Phineas T. Philander |
But Darwin did not listen to his editor. And got all sciency. And now people believe in evolution. Or decide not to because science is the devil. And so really, he could have written a lovely book about pigeons. People trust folk who author works about pigeons. Because much like the general populace, Jesus was a well-known pigeon fan.
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| "Pigeons are the worst." - Charles Darwin |
But here we are. Charles Darwin hated pigeons and me. Now there are not enough books about pigeons, and I live in fear of being pooped on. Sometimes the world is a pretty crazy place.
I think it's obvious what you have to do: write that book about pigeons yourself.
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