G’day, earthlings! Byron the Quokka here, with another one of those nice bicycles that somebody obviously doesn’t want or they wouldn’t’ve left it just standing here. It’d make a dandy prize for a comment contest winner!
We’re shooting for 60,000 comments, and as of now, we’ve got 58,421, which leaves 1,579 to go. We’re also waiting for Bell Mountain No. 12, His Mercy Endureth Forever, to be published, which really should be any day now. Lee wants to hand out an autographed copy to the winner. I still say the prize should be a bicycle.
Meanwhile, here on Rottnest Island, we’re working hard to make Quokka University a reality. We weren’t going to have any courses at our college, but there are a lot of us who want to study Violet Crepuscular’s epic romance, Oy, Rodney. (I say “Fap!” to that.) But the main thing we’re into just now is trying to choose a mascot. A lot of animals don’t want to be mascots of a college run by other animals–makes ’em feel, I don’t know: put-upon, I guess. I’d like it to be a centaur–half-horse, half-quokka.
We’re open to suggestions, if anybody wants to make any.
If not an animal mascot, how about having a daffodil as a mascot? — or whatever flowering plant grows on Rottnest Island?
Or … wait … what about a human?
Would a daffodil strike fear into the hearts of the opposing pick-up sticks team?
Comment contests are the BEST!
A human would be a good idea.
It’d have to be the right human.
When I was one of the first students to attend the University of California at Irvine, out class voted to make Ant Eaters our mascot. Years later it was changed. Maybe Quokka U could be the Ant Eaters – or maybe the Manatees.
A bicycle can’t go as far as a fantasy. And a title like this “endureths forever.”
I like that! Thank you!
You actually took the time to tell me that! It makes me feel as though my professor just gave me an A. So, thank you!
Cool!!
how about a bluebird as your mascot? You’ll get a 2-in-1. The bluebird of happiness and the little fat angry bird (I think they’re cute).
How about a kookaburra? It even comes with its own built-in laugh track — or fight song, depending on how you want to interpret it. 🙂
Best idea so far!
Dropping another comment; your blog do get lots of comments