G’day! Byron the Quokka here, happy to report that the prizes for the last two comment contests have gotten to where they were going and it would be okay to start a new comment contest if it wasn’t still too soon to do it.
Y’know, we’re trying to start a world-class university here, aren’t we? They don’t just spring into existence out of nowhere, do they? Like Athena from the forehead of Sherlock Holmes. No, fellow mammals–it takes a lot of work, meticulous planning, and constant care. Otherwise these college types show up and turn it into Stupidville. That is not on the program for Quokka U.!
But what does Lee want me to do? Run more contests! Like I’ve got all this time on my paws! Can I help it if the blog’s month of July fell flat on its face coming out of the starting gate? Who do I look like–Walt Disney? (Actually we have a quokka who’s a dead ringer for Walt Disney: you couldn’t tell them apart.)
Yeah, I remember, we had the Bell Mountain Movie contest that everybody wanted to read about but only three readers ever entered. There was something wrong with that contest, but I don’t know what: it was before my time. Maybe if he had a quokka running it… But I am not going to volunteer to run a second movie contest!
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m trying to get Flora Fauna, the creator of The Smallpox Twins, to come here as a guest lecturer.
Why not stick with the tried and true? Comment contests are always fun. 😉
We have about 62,000 comments now. Where would I put the benchmark?
Hint: Remember the old program, “The $64,000 Question”? Or if that’s too short a distance to go, I’m sure Byron can come up with a reason to add on another thousand or two or three.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we wound up doing that.
Byron, you might want Katherine Koala for a guest speaker. She could explain how Koala fingerprints are almost indistinguishable from human ones.
I looked that up–learn something new every day. That is a very cool fact!